Didn't really feel like an Evil Dead movie at first, but grew on me, especially by the end.
Two early mildly woke sentences is all I noticed we could have done without.
Ended up being gory AF, which I liked a lot.
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I agree with RLMs review where they said all the evil dead stuff is pretty paint by numbers and it's starting to get tired.
I mean army of darkness is essentially the only one that bucks convention and even then it sticks to the core beats. Read book/ people die
Except that everything after Army of Darkness throws away what made it and Evil Dead 2 great.
Slapstick horror with an impatient hero and funny one-liners.
Yeah, the movie remake was more like the original, but the original wasn't very popular because gore flicks are a niche genre.
Then, the first season of Evil Dead (only one I watched) was like it was written by someone who hated the character Ash. He did nothing cool, entertaining, or memorable. Was repeatedly shown up by the other characters, accomplished nothing worthwhile. And when we are reintroduced to him, he's somehow become a pathetic loser -- a lot like Luke Skywalker. The one time he tried to deliver a one-liner was instead a (I'm assuming intentionally ironic) failure.
It's just typical Hollywood at this point: everything you liked was never that good, you're pathetic for ever liking it, unless you like the New, Improved stuff ... in that case, you're a True Fan.