I can never forget that night
when we saw the Original “Evil Dead” and its part 2 – way back in late 80’s,
guess I was in 3rd or 4th standard and after watching
both the movies back to back – all of us brave brothers refused to go out of
the house in the night to lock the main gate for weeks. Whenever one of us
tried to be a little braver than other – we will make some noises and he will
run back for his life without locking the main gate. That was the impact of a “Sam
Raimi” horror movie – it was indeed frightening – I saw both the parts a couple
of months ago and still found them to be pretty good. Now coming back to this “Reboot”
– I guess I always have an issue with reboots – this one is a more messier,
bloodier and grosser then both the earlier parts put together but still it
looks more silly and comical than Horror to me. May be because I have grown in
age and don’t find the content to be horrific but nothing has changed, they are
still out of ideas in the west and serving the same age old stuff. Although a
couple of things were too good in the movie like the house, its surroundings,
even the old car can be seen parked in the backyard, the book of the dead is
back in the basement and that’s about it. I missed that legendry scene of
chopped hand which tries to kill the man himself in this one – the hand does
get chopped by a more modern electric knife but nothing happens after that. Even
after knowing that it is a reboot still the expectations were quite high hence
this one didn’t work for me at all and I found it a big let down in front of
the original – will look forward to its upcoming sequel – hope that one
succeeds in scaring me. My rating will be an average 2/5 and if you haven’t seen
it – you aren’t missing anything special – I would rather recommend the
original – go get them and watch them back to back.
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