“Evil Dead,” the remake of Sam Raimi’s accidentally campy ’80s flick, is a gore fest sure to make even hardcore horror fans cringe. “Evil Dead” accomplishes what its ancestor set out to do: be legitimately scary.

With a way bigger budget and profoundly better technology, “Evil Dead” is a blood orgy of “The Exorcist,” any Romero zombie movie and “Wrong Turn.” Here’s the setup: a group of young adults go away for a weekend to their cabin in the woods.

They stumble upon a basement filled with cat carcasses and ritualistic propaganda, including “The Necronomicon,” a book of demonic curses. One of the characters predictably reads one of the spells aloud and unleashes some horrifying hell-spawn.

Cue the battle for survival. The film does a pretty good job of staying true to the original, but with a few added twists. The ending drags at some points, but overall, it’s a well-done remake.