It might not have reached the needlessly high bar of Sony’s marketing push … but Evil Dead checked all the boxes for a successful remake. The critical reception, however, was decidedly mixed, perhaps because Raimi’s trilogy was regarded as sacrosanct [ˈsækɹoˌsæŋkt] by horror obsessives.

sacrosanct
adj [ˈsækɹoˌsæŋkt]

a formal word that describes things too important and respected to be changed or criticized. It can also mean “most sacred or holy.”

ikely comes from the Latin phrase sacro sanctus meaning “made holy by a sacred rite.”

There’s a definite semantic softening from that to the “too important and respected to be changed or criticized” meaning of sacrosanct.

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