I'm not gonna comment on the hyperbole... but it's a fantastic reinterpretation of Evil Dead. Retains the heart of the original with a new twist.
Suspiria is debatable. I loved the new one, but I can totally see the argument of why someone would prefer the original. The Thing and The Fly pretty much render the original versions needless.The Thing, The Fly and Suspiria remakes are all leagues above the Evil Dead one.
LEAGUES.
It's.. good. But it doesn't improve on the original outside of making Barbara an actual character which is well welcomed.Huh...didn't know NOTLD90 is considered good. Seems to be on Netflix here, will watch it later.
The Blob is my absolute favorite kind of horror movie, great effects and creative deaths. Movie that is similar to it that I enjoyed as much is Slither.
I love The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers too but I wonder if they somewhat suffer from this. A huge part of why I love them is the SFX, but I always understood that the themes of the originals were political (mostly focusing on the Red Scare). The remakes lose that. The horrifying concept of monsters hiding in plain sight and not knowing when you can trust your closest friends translate beyond the original political message though.Oh I like the Evil Dead Remake because of that. Just wouldn't say it's the best remake. I was more thinking of all those other super lame horror remakes that really offer nothing. Texas Chainsaw, Friday 13th etc.
But it isn't a remake?
I don't hate it as much as you seem to but agreed that I have no idea why people like the remake. I watch the original trilogy about once a year and it missed basically the whole spirit.To this day I am baffled that anyone likes this movie. I saw it in theaters and thought it was absolutely dreadful, like, approaching avatar the last air bender levels of bad. It started off decent enough but descended into pretty by the numbers horror movie slush. Super disappointing in every way. Yuck
No seriously, the praise this movie gets is baffling.
It's close enough I reckon.But it isn't a remake?
They redo the first night i.e. Evil Dead one in like the first ten minutes with some retcons. Evil Dead 2 starts where the first movie ends