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
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
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 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
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
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.
East Bay Express
Will not inspire endless repeat viewings like the original, mostly because there's no Bruce Campbell.
Lawrence.com
Alvarez adopts the film language of Raimi's films, adds more to the bag of tricks, and keeps the sardonic attitude without necessarily being slapstick.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Empire Magazine
At its best, manages to recapture the original's hardcore nastiness. It could certainly do with laughing at itself a bit more, though.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top Critic
Digital Spy
A must-see for horror fans, Evil Dead is great fun from start to finish and establishes the basis for a rejuvenated franchise that could fuse with past demon defiance rather than overwrite them.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Reno News and Review
Well...I didn't hate it.
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| Original Score: 2.75/5
American Profile
A big, spewing slab of gory, red meat entertainment, carved out with all the delicacy of a sputtering chainsaw, for fans a horror movie classic that just refuses to die.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Eclipse Magazine
When will people learn to stay out of the woods? This is the rare remake that surpasses the original in almost all ways except one - no Bruce Campbell.
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| Original Score: B
