Remy: THE HATERS
I need to say something about this because it has been bothering me. Any person who tells you Evil Dead is “torture porn” must not have any solid idea what the genre means. “Torture porn”, as whack as that term is, is based and steeped in reality. People bound or gagged and being tortured by another person.
Certain people hate films like that because they are vile and gross at times, but Evil Dead is NOT that. It is a group of people who slowly get possessed, one by one, by a demon, and that demon will do anything it can to kill anyone around it, including, and especially, the host. There is NO basis of reality here, and at no point is anyone being tortured. Just because people are slicing off their faces and getting nail guns to the eye does not make it torture porn. It is simply a very violent, gritty, grimy, visceral horror film. All they did was remove the campiness of the original, and now people call it torture porn. Wrong. Those are just people who are having trouble coping with the violence on screen, so they are name-calling at the film to take the emphasis off the fact that their tender minds could not handle it.
