It's only stupid imo if they wanted to go the comedic route, which doesn't seem to be the case. Based on this movie it seems to be serious horror films, while the originals were horror/comedy.
I dunno, I watched the original Evil Dead (the first when that came out in 1981) Friday night and the remake did a great job, it was done better all around as far as a serious horror film goes. Remember, the OG was a very low budget, B movie and was pretty cheesy at times. But it had an original style of directing, and lots of gore which of course led to the cult following. It was unintentionally funny at times because of how bad some of the scenes were. But then they just went with that and purposely made the next one funny with Ashley and his hilarious one liners and facial expressions. None of that stuff really existed in the OG Evil Dead. It was Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness that had all the funny shit.