Bruce Campbell-style mugging is nowhere to be found in Fede Alvarez's bloodthirsty take on Sam Raimi's cult classic.

SXSW Review: Why Fede Alvarez's 'Evil Dead' Remake Can't Match the Fun of the Originals

Review: 'Evil Dead' is a gleeful, gory, goofy good time

Do we need a remake of Sam Raimi's 1981 classic The Evil Dead? Maybe not. But as remakes go, the new Evil Dead is one bloody bash of a horror flick — and o...

Truthfully, if it hadn’t been my paying job as a critic to watch Fede Alvarez’s remake of “Evil Dead’’ all the way to the end, I probably would hav...

“Evil Dead,” a remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror film, has none of the original’s handmade charm, but it does retain its blood lust.

The Evil Dead is a gory, non-humorous remake of Sam Raimi's 1980s Cult horror flick.

It's tempting to look at the 2013 reincarnation of Evil Dead as yet another pointless remake of an '80s horror film. Haven't there been enough of these? On...

Relentless, pitiless, bloody and intense – that’s the remake of Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead.” But is this “Evil Dead” (no “The”) any good? Y...

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Fede Alvarez's reboot of Evil Dead is slightly better acted than the original 1981 version, but it has neither humour nor irony

In an admirably self-aware decision, Fede Alvarez's overhaul of the splatter classic The Evil Dead doesn't have the "the" in its title. This isn't "The" Evil...

Fede Alvarez's remake of the 1981 Sam Raimi classic is a stylish, inventive, gruesome homage.

The heavily hyped reboot of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult horror film is awash in slapstick carnage, with bodies that spew, gush, rupture and die hard in myriad ways

The remake of the 1981 low-budget classic is nowhere near as creative as the original.

The rare remake that likely will be enjoyed most by diehard fans of its predecessor, “Evil Dead” often comes off as the cinematic equivalent of a cover-b...

Sam Raimi, who directed the original, co-produced this remake.