Evil Dead (2013)

You know you are not the intended audience of this revoltor - it doesn't horrify with its excess of body fluids, just revolts - when you find yourself rolling your eyes at young adults who one minute stumble innocently upon a satanic book in the cellar of their cottage in the woods and the next spout lines with utter conviction about exactly how the summoned evil must be stopped, and because this humourless remake is played straight umlike the classic 1981 horror comedy original, how else can you react?

★★☆☆☆

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Don't Breathe (2016)

One of a spate of recent confined-space horror-thrillers in which there are no heroes just self-interested, largely unlikeable survivors (Green Room, 10 Cloverfield Lane), this story of thieves who get more than they bargained for when they break into a blind man's home goes places you wish it didn't, abandoning restraint for convoluted nastiness but nevertheless, once it is all over, you'll concede you haven't taken a breath during its tightly-packaged thrill ride.

★★★★☆

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