Evil Dead
TriStar Pictures | Release Date: April 5, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
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17
Negative:
3
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60
Time Out LondonNigel FloydApr 29, 2013
Despite much old-school splatter, it’s seldom frightening and oddly unfunny. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 19, 2013
It is nowhere near as creepy as the recent indie horror "V/H/S," but it is a full-bloodedly grisly and macabre film that zaps over a few scares. Read full review
60
Total FilmMatt GlasbyApr 15, 2013
Closer to Eli Roth than Sam Raimi, this brutal retread combines J-horror atmospherics with torture-porn kills. It’s more evisceration than invention but at least has the courage of its bloody-minded convictions. Read full review
60
EmpireSimon CrookApr 15, 2013
Prepare yourself for a shock: a horror remake that, at its best, manages to recapture the original’s hardcore nastiness. It could certainly do with laughing at itself a bit more, though. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 4, 2013
Doesn’t have the original’s wooden performances, puffy clothes and hairdos or its amusingly crude special effects, but it does share its blood lust. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 4, 2013
There is nothing about Evil Dead as groundbreaking as Raimi’s films (particularly the first two). But it’s smarter and better done than a lot of what’s come since those movies were made, which is to say there is at least some thought behind the killings. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanApr 4, 2013
Though Alvarez keeps us watching, he takes no real chances. Buried under all those enthusiastically mangled bodies is the comfort of familiarity. He may have intended to remake a single film, but we’ve seen this movie countless times before. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichApr 2, 2013
What really matters is seeing these pretty people get put through the gory wringer, and once the unholy spirit comes calling, Evil Dead more than delivers. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinApr 7, 2013
The passing of the torch from Raimi to Alvarez is not a momentous occasion. In the end, who really cares? Five years from now, will you want to watch this bloody $14 million extravaganza or Raimi’s shoestring original, which was Amateur Hour elevated to pop art? Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoApr 7, 2013
Are we really looking to Evil Dead for gnarly possessions played straight? That’s what Alvarez gives us for an overlong stretch, until his reinterpretation of the malevolent-hand gag kicks off a last act that’s more freewheelingly, twistedly grisly. (Don’t skip the credits, because the fan-energizing momentum peaks at the very end.) Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezApr 4, 2013
Evil Dead is just a well-made gross-out, and it's kind of a bummer. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 4, 2013
More stomach-churning than soul-chilling. The list of on-screen atrocities includes attacks by nail gun, electric carving knife, chain saw, shotgun, crowbar and chunk of ceramic from a broken toilet tank, used as a crude bludgeon. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigApr 4, 2013
Goes overboard on the gruesome and scrimps on humor. Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell" was a much funnierchill-fest. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 4, 2013
This isn't just a horror movie with gore - it's a gore movie, period. Blood is its raison d'etre. It's not scary. It's not shocking. It just wallows in viscera. Ho-hum. Pass the ketchup. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 4, 2013
Evil Dead offers the core audience for modern horror plenty of reasons to jump, and then settle back, tensely, while awaiting the next idiotic trip down to the cellar beneath the demon-infested cabin in the woods. Read full review
42
The PlaylistCory EverettMar 10, 2013
Featuring truly shocking levels of violence but none of the wit or fun of the original, the new Evil Dead is mostly a dud. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottApr 5, 2013
Because while it can boast of some truly extraordinary special effects -- stomach-churning, face-hacking, arm-slicing visual effects, the kind that are sure to titillate the gleefully twisted -- this Evil Dead is far more gruesome than awesome. Read full review
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