James Wan first hit the mainstream in 2004 with the groundbreaking hit SAW. (Regardless of what you think of the sequels, there’s no denying that the first film of the franchise was a game changer.) He then went on to direct the delightfully underrated Dead Silence, the fantastically brutal Death Sentence, and one of the best horror films in years, Insidious. So between Wan’s history and the buzz created from the test screenings, I was pretty excited for the release…

Evil Dead, Evil Dead, Evil Dead…

Just saying the title evokes passions from horror fans — the casual and diehard alike. So to announce they were going to “remake” this classic really put a burr in some people’s saddles.

Then we saw the trailer.

It had all the elements: the quick shots through the woods, the blood, Sam Raimiʼs ’73 Olds Delta 88, the blood, the Necronomicon, the blood, tree rape, more blood — did I mention the blood yet?…