Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

eringobraugh86 The storyline says the curse began on a plantation where an evil madame practiced experiments on her slaves. Further than that, she was discovered as a witch because her cook was chained to the stove and started a fire. The fire department came to help and discovered a room where they found some slaves dead, some alive, and some not even recognized as human anymore.Here is where my spoiler alert ends, and a little knowledge is dropped on you. For the less educated, who simply say this is another chainsaw massacre, jeepers creepers, or "done to death" teen slasher, I'd like to say that I mean no offense in the "less educated" comment. It is actually true, only because I have studied the case of Madame Delphine LaLaurie of the New Orleans French Quarter. You haven't studied her or her sadistic behaviors, so you would never know that this film is actually based on a real person and real events.Madame LaLaurie's parents were killed by slaves in the Haiti Revolution, she married 3 times, had 2 daughters, and her last husband was a doctor. She was THE aristocratic woman to be in the 18oos, but disdained her slaves. She murdered many, and buried them in the floors and walls of her home, as well as tossed them down the well in their courtyard.Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, taught her voodoo. She then branched out as a Satan worshiper. When the cook set fire to the home, she was chained to the stove. She did so because her grandson was being sent to the attic, where no slave ever returned.Madame would try to practice sex changes on her slaves, would scramble their brains with iron rods, break there bones and reset them to look like sea creatures and then jam them in cages for medium sized dogs, peel their skin back to watch stages of infection, sew mouths shut with fecal matter packed inside, sew body parts of slaves to other slaves, and more... all while the slaves would be alive.She did all of this with the help of her henchman, Sebastian, who was a slave who was also her lover, and kept his rank by doing harm to others for her pleasure. When she was discovered as a monster after the fire, they took off in her carriage across lake Pontchartrain. They were never heard from again, and there is no agreed upon proof of whether she returned to France, died across the lake, or any sort of outcome. Legend says she still practiced her dark magic across the lake, had followers, and lived her days out there. There are still people who go to practice along the lake banks, and make sacrifices to Madame, who was believed a witch.

movieman_kev Mark, a graduate student is working on a major tome on myths, and after interviewing the psychiatrist (the great Kurtwood Smith in an awkward little bit part near the beginning and end) who was treating Carl Bryce, a boy who brutally murdered his parents, decides to go on a road trip to the site where it all happened on the chance that the land there might be cursed, an urban myth that would help with his book. Once there with a few friends in tow, they discover that they may not be alone in this generic & bland slasher film.While the opening 'prolog' scene showed promise for the rest of the film, I found my hopes quickly dashed as it turned out highly derivative and had characters who talk and yell to no end that were bland and hard to care about. Yea there's a good scene here and there in the film. But the movie as a whole just failed to work for me. Thankfully I just saw it via Netflix-online view so the only thing I really waisted was my time.My Grade: D+

stmichaeldet Witness the modern evolution of the slasher pic: the kids have grown up a little, gotten themselves lives (kinda) and Dark Secrets, the killers are more vague and shadowy than they were before, and the editors all have ADHD. But, once you get beyond that, it's plain to see that Evil Remains doesn't really bring anything new to the table.For instance, we start this ride with a flashback to a brutal crime that occurred 20 years earlier. I ask you, how many horror films made since, say, 1978 have started with essentially the same device? But, let's go with it for now. After seeing an entire family killed, we slide forward to the present, where Mark is planning to investigate the site of the murder with an eye toward debunking the curse that locals believe hangs over the property. He takes along his brother Tyler, an expendable techie, and a pair of lesbians played by a couple of up-and-coming actresses who must not be so up-and-coming anymore, seeing as how they made this film.Of course, anyone who's seen Sorority House Massacre can tell where this is headed. (You mean you haven't seen Sorority House Massacre? For shame!) People get creepy feelings, see and hear weird stuff, and eventually start turning up dead. In the end, one girl is left alive and no one believes her story. Yada, yada, roll credits. But, so that we know that this is a modern slasher, the cast spend their spare time psychoanalyzing each other and trying to sound deep instead of partying and bedhopping like weasels in heat. And, since we're in the post-Blair Witch era, the identity of the killer remains vague and indistinct, more a property of the locale than an actual character.Visually, Evil Remains is a mixed bag. Kind of Robert Altman meets Chris Carter meets digital postproduction and they all go out and have too many drinks and are hung over the next day. Sometimes it works really well, sometimes so much is happening at once in such a dark room that you totally lose track of the action.Overall, while I wouldn't actually recommend this movie, I would call it another perfectly serviceable entry in the long and proud lineage of low-budget slasher pics. And as long as they keep making them, we keep watching them, whether we like it, or not. Pity us.

darrenjames74 I just wanted to write this because the other critic seemed quite harsh. This little movie was quite a fun and scary surprise with very adequate acting and directing. This is a slasher/ghost story that kept me on the edge of my seat and just tense enough to keep me up right now to write this. It does have similarities with some other major motion pictures like Texas and Wrong Turn but also to Session9, because it is subdued in a way and keeps the viewer guessing. The sounds are very well executed as is the lack of sound in some scenes. This silence becomes very threatening at times especially in the darker scenes. All I can say is I really liked it a lot. Watch it alone with the lights OUT.