Evil Dead (2013)

Before Scream bludgeoned the slasher film with its simplified, blunt self-awareness, writer/director Sam Raimi's 1981 cult classic The Evil Dead offered a non-ironic post-modern take on the horror genre. For its remake, Evil Dead, Raimi handpicked Uruguayan visual effects specialist Fede Alvarez. The result is a feature-film directorial debut that sacrifices genuine suspense for prolonged jump scenes and over-the-top gore that is more a pastiche than homage to the gross-out tradition of Grand Guignol. Read the rest of the review here.