'Evil Dead' Reviews: Gory Remake Gets Love & Hate

The remake of “The Evil Dead,” Sam Raimi's 1981 horror film about a cabin of cult curiosities, doesn't have the original's wooden performances, puffy clothes and hairdos or its amusingly crude special effects, but it does share its blood lustTruthfully, 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 have headed for the exit door long before the point where somebody cuts off her own arm with an electricThe remake of “The Evil Dead,” Sam Raimi's 1981 horror film about a cabin of cult curiosities, doesn't have the original's wooden performances, puffy clothes and hairdos or its amusingly crude special effects, but it does share its blood lustThe Evil Dead remake (out Apr. 5) promised to bring back the original's terrifying premise and inject it with the

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