As much as I detest remake culture, this has an approach I can kind of get behind. The same premise made by totally different people and, crucially, trying to do a totally different thing—it feels more akin to an adaptation of a public-domain story than the cynical "safe bets" that makes up so much of our mass-appealing art now.
This disavows the camp and humor of the original for a much stronger focus on the raw horror. It's still got plenty of juicy effects shots, but they're not lingered over the way they are in the original (nor would this make sense in 2013 when lovingly-rendered gore is easy to come by). The withdrawal/dementia angle is trite but gets mercifully forgotten as the action kicks into gear. Altogether, a fun look at "what if Evil Dead took itself seriously".
