Whats funny is that as much of a "remake" that it is... they are treating it as canon to the story.. not a remake. They plan on making army of darkness 2 with bruce... then a crossover film with both characters from both evil deads...

I enjoyed the hell out of the Evil Dead remake because yes of the amount of gore it had. They didn't hold anything back and that's what I wanted to see. It was great hard rated R flick which to many horror remakes today become watered down versions and studios play it safe.
The remakes of Jason, Friday 13th and other recent horror remakes have all been pretty bad. I really don't understand how fans of the original Evil Dead hate the remake so much compared to the all horror remakes that been coming out over the years. The Evil Dead remake actually lived up to the original by adding a good amount of over the top gore. I mean what else were people expecting from it?

What also liked about it was that it wasn't a straight up remake, they didn't try to replace Ash or give us a new Ash character. The only main scene that they pulled from the original was the tree scene.

Also the whole crossover movie is just an idea they have talked about. They do plan to make an Army of Darkness 2 and sequel to the Evil Dead remake. If they tried making a crossover movie they would make another movie that would connect them.