Evil Dead Reviews
Common Sense Media
Alvarez seems to know where to pay tribute to the original... but he also knows where to depart... Overall, his new movie packs a punch.
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| Original Score: 3/5
AspectRatio.us
... not for people prone to nightmares. It's highly effective as causing involuntary chills and hand movements (as in, up to eyes to block the bloody chaos onscreen). ... a cut above just about any other modern horror/slasher remake
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| Original Score: 3.5
Birmingham Mail
If Hollywood is having trouble with deciding who its 'war and terror' enemies are, that's nothing compared with its crisis in horror.
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| Original Score: 1/5
jackiekcooper.com
All the requisite blood and gits but not much else to offer by way of entertainment.
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| Original Score: 4/10
The Ooh Tray
The result is something less than the sum of its parts; in other words, the diametric opposite of that beloved original.
Irish Times
Using the very latest Cern-tested atom interferometry, we can reveal that Evil Dead is precisely, exactly - in the coldest atomic terms -the film that you were expecting.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
Remaking an iconic classic is dangerous business, even if the original filmmakers are on board as producers, but at least Uruguayan writer-director Alvarez has a few clever ideas up his sleeve.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
This is London
Happy days for those who love this sort of thing. But Raimi's effort, perhaps because we hadn't seen the plot before, was infinitely more scary.
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| Original Score: 2/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
This could easily have been the best demon possession film released in decades. Instead it is just a very effective, still-terrifying, evil retread.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Mail [UK]
There's no suspense, and it isn't scary.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Express
The characters are forgettable but the horror they suffer lingers in the memory, for good or ill.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film4
A decent, gory horror treat for those who've never watched an Evil Dead movie - while at the same time exhibiting discreet respect for the 1980s incarnations, with plenty of low-key nods to the original for fans.
Guardian [UK]
A full-bloodedly grisly and macabre film that zaps over a few scares.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Little White Lies
Anonymous, forgettable and doesn't hold a candle to the brilliant original.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Telegraph
I was left clamping my hand to my open jaw, not so much in terror, more in shocked hilarity at how grand the guignol was willing to go.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ViewLondon
Well made and delivers buckets of the red stuff, but it's hampered by poorly developed characters, a lack of humour and a tendency to substitute gore for actual scares.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
Sam Raimi's horror classic gets a terrifying and intense rebirth for the 21st century.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticDespite much old-school splatter, it's seldom frightening and oddly unfunny.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Electric Sheep
An undemandingly fun and instantly forgettable update that provides the required amounts of blood, gore and demonic possession, although no real scares or re-invention.
