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Evil Dead (2013)
Entertaining but far from a masterpiece.
The Evil Dead(1981) is probably one of the first horror movies I saw as a kid on VHS. So yeah i'm one of those guys. I heard many a movie watcher say these movie was horrible so I didn't expect much. But I actually enjoyed it, It had a good amount of gore and I particularly liked the emphasis on the demonology, It wasn't scary, funny or suspenseful.
Recently I've seen several people online saying how awesome this movie is. I watched it again thinking maybe I didn't have the right mindset upon first viewing.
But no. I still feel the same way. Entertaining but far from a masterpiece.
Don't Go in the Woods (1981)
Not bad enough to be good and not gory enough to be worth it.
Don't Go Into The Woods is not a good movie for several reasons. Bad acting, story, dialogue, scenery, camera work, sound. These are all obvious right away. The kills/gore aren't stylish enough or at the very least interesting enough to save this movie. There are two that are pretty good but that's it.
They decided instead of concentrating on the main campers, they would intermittently sprinkle in scenes of other campers being murdered. It's incoherent. By the time anyone survives you barley remember who they were to care.
Some of the awful dialogue can be unintentionally funny or grating depending on your preference.
One thing that stood out was the nonsense. For instance, camper is by himself under an overhang. Fisherman comes by and spots him. But the wildman is standing above the camper where he can't see him. The wildman swings a bear trap and hits the fisherman in the face. Camper watches in shock but doesn't yell out. So you think "Oh, this guy will spot the crazy man, keep quiet and then run back and warn his friends". Instead as soon as he sees the wildman, he yells like a girl and runs off. Why didn't he react right away? Could have set up a nice scene where the camper sneaks off to warn his friends. Then right be for he reaches them surprise kill by the wildman. The movie does this 4 or 5 times. Girl hears friend screaming 2 separate occasions, doesn't react, thinks it's only friends horsing around. Friend screams a third and she comes running.
Movie seems to only take a place in one day but it doesn't match the story. Guy and girl survive. They are in the hospital. Guy feels guilt for leaving other girl back in the woods. He's able to run from the hospital back to the woods before the cops leave the cafeteria. But before, when they broke into the cabin, the guy said, "We are going to need food if we're gonna survive". Later the girl is seen licking a plate as if starving. Really? In running distance from a hospital? Also, no rhyme or reason to the killing. They can't be that deep in the woods (Hospital) and there were at least 5 other people died in that vicinity in the same time span. Should have been called don't go 50 ft into the woods. The posse is waiting on a helicopter to search the woods. Meanwhile the camper has beating them back on foot. The movie takes a scene and then just throws logic out the window. It'a actually impressive.
Oculus (2013)
Major plot hole.
This girl goes through all the trouble of researching the mirror, setting up the cameras, lights, alarms etc. To combat this force that can manipulate your mind into seeing and hearing what it wants you to and she thinks it's a good idea to set up a fail safe that could easily impale the both of them. Saw this coming a mile away, as soon as the "anchor" was shown. It's a major flaw that ruined the whole movie. They could have made it more interesting with the real/unreal aspects But the whole time this anchor is looming above the premise rendering the point moot. Also the flashing back and forth between present and past was not interesting it was more annoying than anything.