This was the best horror movie I think I have ever seen. Wow just wow. I have watched it a couple times it's to good.

Five young people enter a remote cabin in the woods. One of them, Mia is due to go cold turkey from her heroin addiction.

One of them discovers the Book of the Dead and recites from it despite warnings not to. A malevolent force arises and possesses Mia at first.

The film had an interesting opening sequence with a lady chanting in Welsh. The film could pass as a subtext of drug addiction and going cold turkey.

The Evil Dead remake is certainly splattered with blood, gore and violence. However it is a generic horror film. It lacks Sam Raimi's style, wittiness and Bruce Campbell's swagger.

I have to say, starting out, that Sam Raimi's original EVIL DEAD trilogy has been a favourite of mine ever since I saw it as a teenager. While EVIL DEAD 2 was the best of the three films, for me, a pitch-perfect comedy/horror, and ARMY OF DARKNESS was a funny, cheesy comedy, the first film was a gruelling terror flick made on a teensy budget...and it worked. Everything about it gelled, and it remains effective to this day, despite the cheesiness of the low-budget effects work.

This remake thankfully changes things around a bit story-wise, so that even the many fans of the original movie will find themselves guessing as to what's about to happen next. It's a film made very much in the spirit of the first film, and that makes it pretty good for a remake. The same suspense is there, the pulse-pounding question of who's going to be affected next by the curse, while at the same time it's given some Hollywood slickness to offset the original's grubby, zero-budget charm.

And, perhaps most surprisingly of all, the gore quota has been ramped up considerably. This is one of the most extremely vicious and nasty films I've seen in a long time, in which the various set-pieces of gore are difficult to watch; let's just say that the chainsaw stuff hinted at back in the 1980s is shown in full force here. Production values are more than adequate and the cast are pretty good, too. Is this as good as the original? No, it lacks the genuine fright-factor even if the ickiness is there...but at the same time it won't disappoint modern horror fans with its blend of demonic possession and outrageous violence.