Lost limbs, too much blood and conveniently placed chainsaw petrol

Evil Dead

Directed by: Fede Alvarez
Produced by: Sam Raimi (original director and producer)
Starring: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci

As deadlines approach and we swiftly move into exam season the best way to cool off some revision steam is to go and watch this years over the top gore film. Much to my disgust, the Saw...collection...have gone rapidly downhill and the hostel films are no-where to be seen. Therefore, I find myself turning to Sam Raimi's remake of his 1980's failure, 'Evil Dead'.
   Make no mistake, this film is so full of blood and gore you'll find yourself feeling not only sick but thinking about what's in your oversized cinema drink...not just flat cola. But what is this whole fiasco about?! What makes this devil's remake so different from the rest?! To be honest, nothing. Absolutely nothing. It's the typical scene, in the woods...abandoned cabin...five friends...one girl trying to give up her coke addiction...she then gets raped by a tree. WAIT. Raped. By. A. Tree? Yes. It just gets worse from there.
  Here's a plot summary with no spoilers (if you have watched the trailer). The nerdy guy finds this bizarre looking book in a cat carcass filled basement and his crazy nurse girlfriend tells him not to meddle with it...of course he does. A strange evil entity arises from the dead trying to take five souls before the earth rains blood and the devil will rise again, blah blah blah. What's weird is this "devil" doesn't just possess one person at a time, somehow once it has taken someones soul it will turn that person into a weird zombie thing.
Can I just say, second hand prop alert... it looks as though the "devil's possession eyes" are the same contacts from the late Twlight Saga series...

I have to give it to Alvarez, the screenplay for this film is particularly amusing, conversation is pretty typical but once the "devil entity" gets it's say then things turn from bad to worse, some of my favourite quotes are:

"I can smell your filthy soul"

"Why don't you come down here and let me suck your cock, pretty boy!" 

"Where do you think you're going, you junkie whore?"

and my person favourite..."You are all going to die tonight." 

  There are more than a few "back alley surgeries" in this film, so many limbs and body parts are severed or cut in half, it makes one wonder how any of them survived, it didn't even look like there were bones in the limbs, just pure muscle. Like most horror films, everything is extremely conveniently placed, what you need is right where you want it when you want it, or the opposite. I guess, you don't really have a lot of time to look around for the things you need when the devil is after your soul and to drag you back to hell with it, right? I never really did understand the final goal of the devil entity...once it has taken it's five souls and risen back to reality...then what? It takes a stroll around the town while everyone else is drowning in the torrential blood rain?

Here's the main five things you need to know about Evil Dead:
1) No story adaption
2) Average acting
3) So much watered down blood, you'll have a hard time NOT thinking about tomato juice.
4) Much to my surprise... NO sex or nudity (thank the lord and all heavens above)
5) Last but not least, an extremely disappointing ending with no twists or surprises (sorry).

Do I recommend this film? Unless you love gore as much as me and my weird friends, probably not. What I would recommend for this film if you do see it...go watch it on an empty stomach, there were parts that even I had a little mini sick at.

There is one good thing that came from 'Evil Dead', Sam Raimi can now die a happy man knowing he created the film he always wanted. Well done Sammy.