Evil Dead

...smartly retools the original outline and delivers more bloody mayhem than what is usually considered acceptable in an R-rated film.

...a full-bloodedly grisly and macabre film that zaps over a few scares.

... Alvarez just keeps on amplifying the gory intensity until the film becomes absurd and weirdly infectious, an exercise in seeing how far the audience will bend without breaking. Only the flexible need apply.

Shunning CG, the decision to go old school is easily Evil Dead’s brightest move. Once hell is unleashed, the effect is like driving through a car wash of gore.