The Evil Dead (1981) vs The Evil Dead (2013)

[Doc Daneeka]

The new makeup doesn't look awful, but the trailer makes me think that the remake is tossing all subtlety and creeping isolation out the window in favor of more obvious, polished shocks. I give them props for keeping the unsettling, self-mutilating demons instead of just having them scream and attack like animals, but why is the conflict so telegraphed in the trailer, and where is the physical intensity?

Yeah, the trailer looks "decent," but the original film was so much more. I don't like settling for less.