I watched the 2013 remake of Evil Dead on Film 4 the other night. It was really very good, a million times better than the 1981 original which seems laughable in comparison as it has dated so badly, but in the new film the overall quality, tension and action sequences were ratcheted up right from the start and sustained right the way through the film keeping you hooked on the edge of your seat throughout.
There are some slight variations in the plot, one of the group of friends plans to use the time spent miles from anywhere to quit unspecified drugs, and a lot of the first apparent siteings of the demons are initially rationalised away as some kind of drug withdrawal induced delerium. When the evil spirits get unwittingly summoned (Christ the guy reading "that book" aloud was one dumb fucker) and possesses its' hosts one by one this in particular is so much better done than the original, where the special effects were pretty much limited to insanely applied make-up, and those demon eyes and voice have also been improved upon. All the action sequences are way better too. They could have made an equally crap cheap and nasty remake, glad they made the effort to produce a decent film.