Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror flick, “The Evil Dead”, is a wildly entertaining cult classic that has slowly crept into the mainstream radar. It was only a matter of time before it got the remake treatment. This is both an exciting and scary proposal for fans of the original series, which spawned two sequels. Despite being unable to avoid some stereotypical pit falls of the genre, remake writer and director delivers an “Evil Dead” that is head and shoulders better than any horror movie in recent years.
“G.I. Joe: Retaliation” should have been released last July but apparently some early test audiences weren’t too thrilled with the lack of screen time for the hero of the first film, Channing Tatum. So Paramount delayed the release, deciding to give the film a 3D conversion and flesh out some more scenes between Tatum and the film’s new star, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
When her father dies mysteriously, young India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) feels like she has nothing else in her life. She had an incredibly close relationship with her father, played by Dermot Mulroney in flashbacks, but a rather chilly relationship with ice queen mother, played by Nicole Kidman, who looks bored and disinterested during the entire movie. Now that dad is gone, India wonders who will give her life purpose. Enter the creepy and weird Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode, “Match Point”, “Watchmen”), who nobody seemed to know about until the funeral.
Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror flick, “The Evil Dead”, is a wildly entertaining cult classic that has slowly crept into the mainstream radar. It was only a matter of time before it got the remake treatment. This is both an exciting and scary proposal for fans of the original series, which spawned two sequels. Despite being unable to avoid some stereotypical pit falls of the genre, remake writer and director delivers an “Evil Dead” that is head and shoulders better than any horror movie in recent years.
