- IMDb page: Evil Dead (2013)
- Rate: 7.2/10 total 15,561 votes
- Genre: Horror
- Release Date: 18 April 2013 (UK)
- Runtime: 91 min
- Filming Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Budget: $17,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross: $43,737,269 (USA) (17 April 2013)
- Director: Fede Alvarez
- Stars: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Roque Baños
- Soundtrack: Baby, Little Baby
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital | Datasat | SDDS
- Plot Keyword: Book Of The Dead | Demon | Blood Spatter | Oldsmobile | Split Head
Known Trivia
- Gillian Jacobs auditioned for the role of Mia but lost to Lily Collins. Collins later dropped out and was replaced by Jane Levy.
- Jurnee Smollett-Bell auditioned for the role of Olivia.
- Agnes Bruckner and Thora Birch auditioned for the role of Natalie.
- If you take the first letters of the main characters David, Eric, Mia, Olivia and Natalie, the letters spell out DEMON.
- Fede Alvarez stated that the film will heavily rely on practical effects rather than CG effects.
- Fede Alvarez pitched the film as the audience watching something they are not supposed to watch.
- In one scene there are cards spread out on the table. The cards are laid out in the order that Cheryl reads them in the original.
- In the scene where the broken necklace is found outside of the cabin, it can be seen resting in the shape of a skull, just like in the original.
- Mia can be seen wearing a Michigan State sweatshirt. In the original version, the main character also wears a Michigan State sweatshirt in the opening scene. This is also a homage to original director Sam Raimi, who is from Michigan.
- Diablo Cody polished and "Americanized" the screenplay while remaining uncredited.
Goofs: Continuity: The double barrel shotgun keeps changing. It goes from having a pistol grip stock to a full stock.
Plot: Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods. The evil presence possesses them until only one is left to fight for survival. Full summary » »
Story: Five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival. Written bySony Pictures Entertainment
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Synopsis: The film starts with a young woman walking through the woods. She's dripping with blood. A figure stalks her and eventually jumps her, throwing a bag over her head and having his redneck buddy whack her with the butt of his axe. The woman wakes up in a cellar where an old woman is speaking in a unknown foreign language, and she's surrounded by what appear to be burn victims. The young woman's father appears before her. She asks for her mother, and the father tells her that she killed her mother. The old woman hurries the father to kill his daughter, and so he douses her with gas as she pleads with him. Before he can strike a match, the young woman tells him she will eat his soul. Her eyes turn yellow, and as the father drops the match, she appears demonic and starts thrashing. The father raises a shotgun, tells her he loves her, and then blasts her head clean off her shoulders.
Some time later, a car is driving to a quiet part of the woods where a cabin is. We meet David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore), and their friends Olivia (Jessica Lucas), who is a nurse, and Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci). Olivia tells David his sister Mia (Jane Levy) is waiting for him in the back.
David finds Mia, sitting on an old broken down 1973 Olds Delta 88, smoking a cigarette while drawing. He tells her she looks beautiful, but she thinks he's being a liar.
The group enters the cabin, where Mia complains about a smell. We learn here that Mia fondly remembers her mother, but David doesn't want her to. It also appears that their mother was emotionally abusive toward Mia.
Everyone gathers around a well. Mia, being a recovering drug addict, pulls out a bag of powdered drugs and pours it down the well, vowing to be done with it for good and going cold turkey.
Olivia tells David that this isn't the first time they've tried to get Mia off drugs. Eric tells him that she lasted eight hours before relapsing and overdosing, in which she legally died but was revived.
That evening, Mia starts screaming as she is apparently suffering from withdrawals. Olivia gives her a sedative but Mia continues complaining about a rotten smell that nobody else seems to notice. Their dog, Grandpa, sniffs around the floor where they find a door leading to a cellar under a rug. The floor is smeared with blood. David and Eric go into the cellar and discover the stench is coming from the rotting corpses of animals. They also find the "evil book" from before, wrapped in wires and plastic.
The next day, Mia is wandering outside in the rain. Eric opens the cover of the book, which is scribbled all over with warnings like "Leave this book alone" and "Do not fucking read this." Naturally, Eric looks through it and finds a page with some words scribbled out and the warning to not speak, write, or hear what is in it. He puts a piece of paper over the book and shades over it with a pencil, revealing several words that he begins to read. Outside, Mia starts puking and hears a faint voice calling her, and then sees a figure staring at her. She comes into the cabin and starts grabbing her things, saying she can't be there anymore. She jumps out the window and steals Eric's car, but as she drives through the woods, she sees the figure again and drives the car into a swamp.
When she comes to, Mia tries to get out, but the figure rises from the swamp, and she runs away, tumbling into a thorn bush. The branches and sticks wrap themselves around her arms and legs, and the figure, which is a bloodied and horrifying version of herself, regurgitates a black wormy thing with thorns that makes its way up Mia's leg and goes right inside her. David and Olivia hear her screaming and find her.
The group suspects she was trying to harm herself. David goes into her room, and she tells him that there is something in the room with them.
He goes outside and sees blood on the ground. He calls for Grandpa and finds him in a hole beneath the tool shed. Grandpa is whimpering. David runs into the tool shed and pulls him out of the hole, but he's dead. David suspects Mia bludgeoned him to death with a hammer that was lying nearby.
He runs back into the cabin and tries to get to Mia, but she's taking a shower. She turns the water up to the point where it becomes scalding hot and her flesh starts burning. The group pulls her out in time. Eric looks at an open page in the book and notices a picture of a being with burning flesh.
David takes Mia in his Jeep and drives her to a hospital as she's foaming at the mouth. Unfortunately, the roads are flooded, and he has to turn back.
Olivia gives Mia another sedative. While the group argues about her, she comes into the living room dragging a rifle. She holds it up, and fires near David, and the door swings open as Mia lets out a frightening scream. She says in a possessed voice "You are all going to die tonight." Olivia tries to get the rifle away from her, but Mia tackles her as her eyes turn yellow and she pukes blood all over her. Olivia kicks her into the cellar, and Eric closes it. He suspects this has to do with the stuff they found down in the cellar.
Olivia tries to clean the blood and puke off herself, but she sees an image of herself mutilated in the mirror, which shatters. She walks away but then freezes, and her eyes twitch as she pisses herself. Next to her is the book, open to a page with a person holding a knife and their severed face flesh.
Eric goes into the bathroom to find Olivia, who is cutting the flesh from her cheek with the broken glass. Horrified, he stumbles backward and slips on the cheek flesh. Olivia stabs him with the broken glass and then in the face with the needle. Eric throws her off and breaks off a piece of the toilet, which he uses to bludgeon her to death, just as David and Natalie come in.
David tries to patch up Eric's wounds. He tells Natalie to bring a jug of water and sugar. Eric tells her to stay away from Mia. He tells David that it's his fault this is happening because he read from the book.
Natalie goes to the living room and finds that the cellar door is open. Mia is still down there, crying and asking for help. As Natalie tries to go down and get her, Mia's voice becomes low and demonic and threatening, saying "He won't stop until he has all of you!" Natalie tries to run but Mia grabs her and bites into her hand. She tries to defend herself with a box cutter but Mia takes it from her and slices her tongue down the middle. She grabs Natalie and kisses her, forcing blood into her mouth. David finds them and pulls Natalie out. They nail the cellar door shut, locking Mia down there.
David finds Eric trying to burn the book, but it doesn't work. He tells David about what he knows from the book - an evil entity has been unleashed, and it's attached to Mia's soul. It seeks a collection of souls to unleash something called the Abomination.
Meanwhile, Natalie tends to the bite wound on her hand. It starts to burn into her arm and she notices an electric knife and reaches for it. Mia peeks from the cellar and tells her not to cut it off, but Natalie slices into her arm. David and Eric find her as her arm falls off.
Eric tells David there are three ways to put an end to this - bury Mia alive, dismember her, or burn her alive. David refuses to do any of that, and Eric calls him a coward. Suddenly, a noise is heard, and Natalie comes in, now possessed, with nails in her head. She's holding a nail gun and shoots at Eric, who gets a few nails in him. David tries to get the rifle, but Natalie starts hitting him with a crowbar. Eric shoots her with the nail gun, and she goes to start bludgeoning him with the crowbar. Before she can deliver the fatal blow, David blows her hand off with the rifle. Natalie appears to revert back to normal, complaining about the pain before she dies.
David finally decides to burn the cabin with Mia still inside. He pours gasoline on the floor, but before he can drop the lighter, Mia, in her normal voice, starts singing a lullaby that their mother used to sing, and David cannot do it. Outside, a bolt of lightning strikes a tree, setting it on fire. He hatches another plan. He grabs two syringes, among other things, and starts to dig up a hole outside.
He heads into the cellar. He finds Mia, who slashes at him with the box cutter and throws him around. She tries to drown him, but Eric steps in and hits Mia. He's also been stuck with the box cutter in his stomach. David goes to him, and Eric finally dies.
David takes Mia outside with a bag over her head and starts to bury her. She talks to him in her normal voice and pleads with him, but he won't buy it. She starts telling him about their mother and more of her abusiveness. Their mother kept asking for David, who was never there, and how Mia would have to keep telling her he's coming back. He completely buries her, and then waits a while as the rain stops and the fire on the tree goes out. David digs Mia back up and pulls her out. He grabs a car battery with the syringes attached to it and sticks them in Mia's chest, trying to revive her. She doesn't come back. He covers her body and walks away tearfully. However, Mia rises and talks to David. She is completely back to normal, and they hug.
The two go back into the cabin to get the keys to David's Jeep, but a possessed Eric is behind him and he stabs David in the neck. David goes into the hallway and gets Mia outside and locks her out. He grabs the rifle and shoots at the gasoline container, letting it consume the cabin in flames and killing himself and Eric for good.
Outside, it starts raining blood. A hand bursts from the ground and grabs at Mia. It's the Abomination. It chases after Mia, who grabs a chainsaw from the tool shed and tries to run. She hides under the Jeep and manages to slice off the Abomination's legs, crippling it. As she tries to run, though, the Abomination tips the Jeep over and it falls on Mia's arm. She pulls herself free, severing her arm. The Abomination inches toward Mia, but she sticks her arm into the handle of the chainsaw and kills the Abomination. Its corpse sinks back into the ground.
The bloody rain stops, and the sun comes out. Mia walks away, now free from the curse, but alone. Meanwhile, the book lies outside the burning cabin, closing itself and waiting for its next victims.
Ash (Bruce Campbell) appears after the credits to say "Groovy" and dramatically turn to the audience.
Some time later, a car is driving to a quiet part of the woods where a cabin is. We meet David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore), and their friends Olivia (Jessica Lucas), who is a nurse, and Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci). Olivia tells David his sister Mia (Jane Levy) is waiting for him in the back.
David finds Mia, sitting on an old broken down 1973 Olds Delta 88, smoking a cigarette while drawing. He tells her she looks beautiful, but she thinks he's being a liar.
The group enters the cabin, where Mia complains about a smell. We learn here that Mia fondly remembers her mother, but David doesn't want her to. It also appears that their mother was emotionally abusive toward Mia.
Everyone gathers around a well. Mia, being a recovering drug addict, pulls out a bag of powdered drugs and pours it down the well, vowing to be done with it for good and going cold turkey.
Olivia tells David that this isn't the first time they've tried to get Mia off drugs. Eric tells him that she lasted eight hours before relapsing and overdosing, in which she legally died but was revived.
That evening, Mia starts screaming as she is apparently suffering from withdrawals. Olivia gives her a sedative but Mia continues complaining about a rotten smell that nobody else seems to notice. Their dog, Grandpa, sniffs around the floor where they find a door leading to a cellar under a rug. The floor is smeared with blood. David and Eric go into the cellar and discover the stench is coming from the rotting corpses of animals. They also find the "evil book" from before, wrapped in wires and plastic.
The next day, Mia is wandering outside in the rain. Eric opens the cover of the book, which is scribbled all over with warnings like "Leave this book alone" and "Do not fucking read this." Naturally, Eric looks through it and finds a page with some words scribbled out and the warning to not speak, write, or hear what is in it. He puts a piece of paper over the book and shades over it with a pencil, revealing several words that he begins to read. Outside, Mia starts puking and hears a faint voice calling her, and then sees a figure staring at her. She comes into the cabin and starts grabbing her things, saying she can't be there anymore. She jumps out the window and steals Eric's car, but as she drives through the woods, she sees the figure again and drives the car into a swamp.
When she comes to, Mia tries to get out, but the figure rises from the swamp, and she runs away, tumbling into a thorn bush. The branches and sticks wrap themselves around her arms and legs, and the figure, which is a bloodied and horrifying version of herself, regurgitates a black wormy thing with thorns that makes its way up Mia's leg and goes right inside her. David and Olivia hear her screaming and find her.
The group suspects she was trying to harm herself. David goes into her room, and she tells him that there is something in the room with them.
He goes outside and sees blood on the ground. He calls for Grandpa and finds him in a hole beneath the tool shed. Grandpa is whimpering. David runs into the tool shed and pulls him out of the hole, but he's dead. David suspects Mia bludgeoned him to death with a hammer that was lying nearby.
He runs back into the cabin and tries to get to Mia, but she's taking a shower. She turns the water up to the point where it becomes scalding hot and her flesh starts burning. The group pulls her out in time. Eric looks at an open page in the book and notices a picture of a being with burning flesh.
David takes Mia in his Jeep and drives her to a hospital as she's foaming at the mouth. Unfortunately, the roads are flooded, and he has to turn back.
Olivia gives Mia another sedative. While the group argues about her, she comes into the living room dragging a rifle. She holds it up, and fires near David, and the door swings open as Mia lets out a frightening scream. She says in a possessed voice "You are all going to die tonight." Olivia tries to get the rifle away from her, but Mia tackles her as her eyes turn yellow and she pukes blood all over her. Olivia kicks her into the cellar, and Eric closes it. He suspects this has to do with the stuff they found down in the cellar.
Olivia tries to clean the blood and puke off herself, but she sees an image of herself mutilated in the mirror, which shatters. She walks away but then freezes, and her eyes twitch as she pisses herself. Next to her is the book, open to a page with a person holding a knife and their severed face flesh.
Eric goes into the bathroom to find Olivia, who is cutting the flesh from her cheek with the broken glass. Horrified, he stumbles backward and slips on the cheek flesh. Olivia stabs him with the broken glass and then in the face with the needle. Eric throws her off and breaks off a piece of the toilet, which he uses to bludgeon her to death, just as David and Natalie come in.
David tries to patch up Eric's wounds. He tells Natalie to bring a jug of water and sugar. Eric tells her to stay away from Mia. He tells David that it's his fault this is happening because he read from the book.
Natalie goes to the living room and finds that the cellar door is open. Mia is still down there, crying and asking for help. As Natalie tries to go down and get her, Mia's voice becomes low and demonic and threatening, saying "He won't stop until he has all of you!" Natalie tries to run but Mia grabs her and bites into her hand. She tries to defend herself with a box cutter but Mia takes it from her and slices her tongue down the middle. She grabs Natalie and kisses her, forcing blood into her mouth. David finds them and pulls Natalie out. They nail the cellar door shut, locking Mia down there.
David finds Eric trying to burn the book, but it doesn't work. He tells David about what he knows from the book - an evil entity has been unleashed, and it's attached to Mia's soul. It seeks a collection of souls to unleash something called the Abomination.
Meanwhile, Natalie tends to the bite wound on her hand. It starts to burn into her arm and she notices an electric knife and reaches for it. Mia peeks from the cellar and tells her not to cut it off, but Natalie slices into her arm. David and Eric find her as her arm falls off.
Eric tells David there are three ways to put an end to this - bury Mia alive, dismember her, or burn her alive. David refuses to do any of that, and Eric calls him a coward. Suddenly, a noise is heard, and Natalie comes in, now possessed, with nails in her head. She's holding a nail gun and shoots at Eric, who gets a few nails in him. David tries to get the rifle, but Natalie starts hitting him with a crowbar. Eric shoots her with the nail gun, and she goes to start bludgeoning him with the crowbar. Before she can deliver the fatal blow, David blows her hand off with the rifle. Natalie appears to revert back to normal, complaining about the pain before she dies.
David finally decides to burn the cabin with Mia still inside. He pours gasoline on the floor, but before he can drop the lighter, Mia, in her normal voice, starts singing a lullaby that their mother used to sing, and David cannot do it. Outside, a bolt of lightning strikes a tree, setting it on fire. He hatches another plan. He grabs two syringes, among other things, and starts to dig up a hole outside.
He heads into the cellar. He finds Mia, who slashes at him with the box cutter and throws him around. She tries to drown him, but Eric steps in and hits Mia. He's also been stuck with the box cutter in his stomach. David goes to him, and Eric finally dies.
David takes Mia outside with a bag over her head and starts to bury her. She talks to him in her normal voice and pleads with him, but he won't buy it. She starts telling him about their mother and more of her abusiveness. Their mother kept asking for David, who was never there, and how Mia would have to keep telling her he's coming back. He completely buries her, and then waits a while as the rain stops and the fire on the tree goes out. David digs Mia back up and pulls her out. He grabs a car battery with the syringes attached to it and sticks them in Mia's chest, trying to revive her. She doesn't come back. He covers her body and walks away tearfully. However, Mia rises and talks to David. She is completely back to normal, and they hug.
The two go back into the cabin to get the keys to David's Jeep, but a possessed Eric is behind him and he stabs David in the neck. David goes into the hallway and gets Mia outside and locks her out. He grabs the rifle and shoots at the gasoline container, letting it consume the cabin in flames and killing himself and Eric for good.
Outside, it starts raining blood. A hand bursts from the ground and grabs at Mia. It's the Abomination. It chases after Mia, who grabs a chainsaw from the tool shed and tries to run. She hides under the Jeep and manages to slice off the Abomination's legs, crippling it. As she tries to run, though, the Abomination tips the Jeep over and it falls on Mia's arm. She pulls herself free, severing her arm. The Abomination inches toward Mia, but she sticks her arm into the handle of the chainsaw and kills the Abomination. Its corpse sinks back into the ground.
The bloody rain stops, and the sun comes out. Mia walks away, now free from the curse, but alone. Meanwhile, the book lies outside the burning cabin, closing itself and waiting for its next victims.
Ash (Bruce Campbell) appears after the credits to say "Groovy" and dramatically turn to the audience.
Produced By:
- Jane Levy known as Mia
- Shiloh Fernandez known as David
- Lou Taylor Pucci known as Eric
- Jessica Lucas known as Olivia
- Elizabeth Blackmore known as Natalie
- Phoenix Connolly known as Teenager
- Jim McLarty known as Harold
- Sian Davis known as Old Woman
- Stephen Butterworth known as Toothless Redneck
- Karl Willetts known as Long Haired Redneck
- Randal Wilson known as Abomination Mia
- Rupert Degas known as Demon (voice)
- Bob Dorian known as Professor Knowby from the Original 'Evil Dead' (voice)
- Ellen Sandweiss known as Cheryl from the Original 'Evil Dead' (voice)
- Inca known as Grandpa the Dog
Production Companies:
- FilmDistrict
- Ghost House Pictures
- TriStar Pictures (presents)
- Air Lyndhurst Studios music recorded and mixed at
- Business Affairs production counsel
- Cunning Stunts Limited stunt equipment
- Ignition Print poster design (uncredited)
- La-La Land Records soundtrack
- Pro Arte Orchestra of London music performed by
- Sonic Magic sound post-production
- Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) (2013) (worldwide) (all media) (excluding the UK and France)
- ACME Film (2013) (Estonia) (theatrical)
- Acme Film (2013) (Lithuania) (theatrical)
- Andes Films (2013) (Chile) (theatrical)
- Andes Films (2013) (Peru) (theatrical)
- Cinematográfica Blancica (CB) (2013) (Venezuela) (theatrical)
- Columbia Pictures (2013) (Philippines) (theatrical)
- Continental Film (2013) (Slovenia) (theatrical)
- Distribuye Movie (2013) (Uruguay) (theatrical)
- Falcon (2013) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
- ITA Film (2013) (Slovakia) (theatrical)
- Manfer Films (2013) (Bolivia) (theatrical)
- Metropolitan Filmexport (2013) (France) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Entertainment (2013) (Japan) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Filmverleih (2013) (Austria) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing Canada (2013) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Belgium) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Brazil) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Colombia) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Spain) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Finland) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Indonesia) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Italy) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Mexico) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Portugal) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Singapore) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Releasing (2013) (Thailand) (theatrical)
- StudioCanal (2013) (UK) (theatrical)
- TriStar Pictures (2013) (USA) (theatrical)
- United International Pictures (UIP) (2013) (Argentina) (theatrical)
- United International Pictures (UIP) (2013) (Poland) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) (2013) (USA) (all media)
MPAA: Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, some sexual content and language
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When the remake of the 1981 horror classic "The Evil Dead" wasannounced in late 2011, fans of the series reacted, unsurprisingly,with revulsion. At the heart of their outrage lay a simple question:Why? How could a remake possibly improve upon the original? The firstfilm's charm had much to do with its shoestring budget and utter lackof prestige. The cast and crew were a ragtag group of amateurs whoessentially had no clue what they were doing. The filming process wasnotoriously unpleasant, requiring the team to live in a primitivelog-cabin in the backwoods of Eastern Tennessee. It shouldn't haveworked. And yet, when The Evil Dead hit theaters, it won over audiencesacross the world with its simplistic, clumsy charm and unique sense ofhumor--not to mention its pioneering camera work and brilliantpractical effects. It paved the way for a decade of ultra-violent, lowbudget horror movies (either the best thing to happen to the genre orthe worst, depending on who you're talking to.) Few products of themedium have ever enjoyed such influence.
ReplyDeleteThough a more technically advanced film, Fede Alvarez' 2013remake--backed, disappointingly, by Raimi and Campbell themselves-- isas shoddy a production as the original, but without the charm and humorto redeem it. The fundamental problem with Alvarez' version (and DiabloCody's reworking of the script) is that it approaches the material withludicrous self seriousness, thus making itself vulnerable to moreintense scrutiny, against which it has little hope of defense. The filmbegins promisingly enough, opening with a disturbing scene offather-daughter filicide, but immediately tumbles downhill when themeat of the plot (what little there is) is revealed. The premise isthis: A group of five twenty-somethings treks out into the woods for ahigh school reunion/intervention, hoping to permanently cure Mia (JaneLevy) of her heroin addiction. They hole up in Mia and her brotherDavid's (Shiloh Fernandez) decrepit family cottage and steel themselvesfor the worst of the withdrawal symptoms to set in. However, theirpriorities soon shift when Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) discovers a copy ofthe Necronomicon (wrapped in barbed wire, bound in human skin, and withexplicit admonishments written in bold red letters upon its pages) andrecites the exact words the book warns him not to recite under anycircumstance. What follows thereafter should, by all rights, be anentertaining, gory romp through the swamps. Instead, we are treated toseventy minutes of unrelenting stupidity and bad acting. The worstoffender is the brainless David, our lackluster stand in for BruceCampbell's Ash, who, for three quarters of the movie, simply can't getit through his thick skull that his sister has been possessed by ademon, despite all evidence leading to that conclusion. His dimwittedattempts to contain the situation are extraordinarily frustrating towatch, as is the extreme gullibility of the other characters. How manytimes will these fools fall for the old "I'm not a demon!" trick? Makeit a drinking game. You'll be wasted by the end of the movie.
Again, all of these transgressions would be more easily forgiven if themovie didn't take itself so seriously. But there's nary an amusingone-liner or even a hint of self-awareness to get us through this studyin tedium. Even the gore is disappointing--or, at least, it failed toimpress this seasoned genre enthusiast. Recent films that top Evil Deadin that department include Slither, Feast, and Cabin Fever, amongothers.
Here's hoping the "Carrie" remake fares a little better.
Jesus Christ. I was pumped for this movie. I am not a horror fan, butloved the original franchise, and heard nothing but good things aboutthis movie. Unfortunately, it sucks. This is significantly bad. I mean,there is absolutely nothing good about this. There isn't anything OKabout this. The worst part about this gore - fest is it is not scary. Ijumped twice while in the theater. Once because my friend bumped theback of my chair, and once because of one of the trailers for themovie. It also pays no homage to the original Evil Dead. It looks at itin the rear view mirror, punches the gas, does not look back, and fallsinto a pit of blood.
ReplyDeleteThe gore factor in the movie is NOT impressive. It simply becomes oldafter the one girl cuts off her own arm. After that point, it was like,"Oh no, that's a lot of blood. Too bad I ALREADY SAW THAT."
It also has the worst script I have listened to in a while.
THE MOVIE TAKES ITSELF SERIOUSLY. IT WAS NOT SCARY/SERIOUS ENOUGH TOTAKE SERIOUSLY.
I'm sorry, this review is not for you if you have seen the movie andlike it. If you did this, you were an idiot already.
When I first saw the first trailers for this movie, I quickly went togo watch the original and I loved it! It was spooky, creepy and scary!Even the possessed looks of the humans freaked me out a bit after allof these years of its first debut. So I got myself pumped and ready forthis remake and everything! I just saw it today and I have to say, Iwas deeply disappointed...I realize that the creators and directortried to fit it into our present time now, which worked Out perfectly.But, the thing that just didn't work out for me is that they just wenta bit overboard with the gore and blood. I feel like they plannedeverything out perfectly in this movie just for the purpose of the goreand blood. The personality of the "demon" in this was prettyfrightening but, at times I felt like things were just too cheesy withthe "demon". Also, some of the lines that were said by the "demon" justmade giggle. I have to say, this movie isn't "the most terrifying movieyou'll ever experience." There were probably two or three scenes thatmade me jump just a little bit. It was just filled with disgusting,overwhelming gore and blood sequences. The only things that I reallyliked was the acting done by Jane Levy and what happened at the endwhen it started to "rain". I just couldn't sit through the movieanymore when it got halfway into it (I was with some friends so Icouldn't really leave, so I had to bare through it). There were timeswhen I thought that it should've ended and also times when I WISHED themovie ended because it was so ridiculous. Anywho, this just isn't mytype of movie. I recommend it to those who like gore and blood.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I'll address this movie on its own merit without takinginto account its cult classic predecessor.
ReplyDeleteThe acting in this one was decent though nothing special. The pacingand effects were just okay. The plot was very straight forward, notwists or surprises. There were a few really large detractors for me.The relationships between the friends seemed forced. The dead dogpuppet looked so fake I almost laughed. The contraption David rigs upto defibrillate his sister back to life is completely ludicrous. Allthose things can be overlooked though if your expectations are not toohigh to begin with. It's one of those movies I would watch on latenight TV if nothing better was on.
To compare it to the original Evil Dead:
There is absolutely no humor in this one at all. There are only twovery thin homages to the original at the end. None of these charactershave anywhere near the on screen charisma that Bruce Campbell's Ashhad. The basic reason for the friends to be at the cabin and theirstaying when things get weird is much better in the new movie. The treerape is in the new movie though significantly changed and very brief.
This new version will never be the cult classic the original wasbecause it doesn't stand out in any way from the tons of other horrormovies with the same premise. All in all it's just average.
disappointed with this. saw it at south by south film festival and iwas not impressed. i didn't ever think it was going to be anythingspecial and would pale against the excellent original, but i expectedmore.
ReplyDeletethe gore was over the top and silly. the tree rape was thoughtlesstorture porn. it wasn't scary. it was not imaginative. in fact, it wasboring. and that is the saddest thing. so much effort put into shockingand outraging the audience with blood and guts, when the net result istedium.
glad raimi had nothing to do with it lest he become like romero, andlose luster with his ill conceived later films.
3/10 is the very best i can muster. sorry.
It's interesting how the budget for the original was around 3 hundred-thousand dollars and this movie's budget was around 14 million dollarsand the original was exponentially better simply because the had to tryback then. I think if the budget for this one had been barely a milliondollars it would have delivered but instead it just delivered anotherrehash of the same movie that has been released every few months forthe past several years; stupid characters you care nothing aboutgetting involved in something that will lead to their demise in themost unrealistic manner the director can come up with.
ReplyDeleteThis is the work of a lazy director who seems to follow a similarformula as most actions movies. The body count matters not thestoryline. There's no point in telling people not to see it, they willanyway. Some will like it, some will love it, and others would like tokill Sam Raimi for producing it because he just allowed some nobodydirector to urinate all over it.
Waste your money on another bad movie that has come out recently, somany to choose from that are more than halfway worth the small fortuneyou'll be dishing out. This movie could be called many things, EvilDead is not one of them. Cabin in the Woods 2, The Last Exorcism 2 1/2,Possession 2... and so many other letdowns. This one is almost as badas Halloween 3 back in the 80's, it had nothing at all to do with theother 2 movies, someone just used the name to make more money than theywould have had they name it Random Unscary Movie I.
If you love this movie, you cannot call yourself an Evil Dead fan, youdon't know what it means to be Dead.
This movie was laughable at best. I was actually very excited to seethis and brought friends with me, I had to apologize to them. Thismovie was the pinnacle of wasted potential. I have to admit it startedof well, just because it had maybe 2 or 3 good jump scare scenes. Therest of the movie was just a downward spiral of crap fueled by gallonsupon gallons of low budget watery Kool-Aid blood, a very dumb plot,pointless dialogue, some unnecessary expository info, atrocious plotholes, and ridiculous plot contradictions. It was hard to tell what wasgetting more butchered, the actors or the Evil Dead Franchise.
ReplyDeleteSemi-Spoiler alert! (first time rating on this website, want to be ascautious as possible): With all the terrible build up, this movie stillmanaged to have one of the most pathetic and anticlimactic endings Ihave ever seen, paired with some serious cliché, last kill finisherlines that go something like this, "-insert insult here,- Bitch!". Theending really did not help its case.
I wouldn't recommend buying it or renting it; hell, I wouldn't evenrecommend getting it through a torrent.
SHAME RAIMI SHAME!! Sam, why would you risk your outstanding legacy byattaching yourself (loosely), to this utter shemozzle?!? Clearly youwere offered a few bucks to help promote this film and give it somecredibility, but is money worth more than credibility? Reputation?Respect?!?! I could say the same about Bruce Campbell, but he has neverbeen more than a B-actor, (though still totally awesome), and thus Iunderstand his desire to make a quick buck, but Sam....you have noexcuse.
ReplyDeleteAs for the film, well it is gory and boring. That pretty much sums itup. Poor-quality gore by the truckload. No tension. No story worthnoting. No scares. No charm. No Ash.
NO ASH!!!! Except for a tacked on cameo after the credits, the lack ofAsh makes this film even more execrable than it already is.
Plot-holes galore. Contrived plot twists. Obvious ending. Terribleacting. Woeful characters. Lack of depth.
Just an awful film.
Sam.............what have you done?
This movie confirms the fact that most of the filmmakers who believethey have something to offer the public in the "horror" genre have no"bloody" idea how to do it. This has been the trend for at least adozen years, or since the "Torture Porn" phase was unleashed on thepublic back in the day of "Saw" and "Hostel." How many human limbs canbe severed is not a scary narrative. Sorry, it's not. It's merelydisgusting and pathetic.
ReplyDeleteHorror is a very popular genre, no question about it. I'm even a fan ofit, but not when it is presented in such a profoundly vaporous way asthis movie. Remember when we cared about the lead characters, like in"Alien" or "Exorcist." Hell, "Jaws" made this piece of evil tripe feellike a student film. The scariest part of this movie IS the acting.
Can you imagine the look on the EFX crew when the director asked themto make it "rain blood?" Get those rain machines cranking and spew thebodily fluid over the entire set. "Excuse me? You want to do what?" theSPFX guys probably asked.
This is a gore fest for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps, if the audiencewould start to walk out or, better yet, not even bother buying aticket, we could begin to see the studios and the writers coming tomarket with intelligent, scary stories that can really get under ourskin.
I wish Fede got the memo because he did not deliver the goods. Instead,all he managed to do is show us how much blood he can spew on somereally unlikable characters, and bad actors.
Save your money. This film is a cash grab of the highest order. A trulyshallow attempt to remake a film all horror fans hold dear to theirheart.
ReplyDeleteWhen Sam Raimi shocked and delighted the world with Evil Dead, he didso with the purest intentions and divine talent. Original story.Groundbreaking gore effects. Stunning visuals. Mesmeric tension.
A masterpiece.
He did so without the desire for box office statistics, nor did he payshills to promote the film. He simply poured his heart and soul andgenius into something he truly loved.
This pale, insipid, vapid excuse of a "remake" is an Evil Dead film inname only. Nothing original. Nothing enthralling. Nothing shocking.Just......nothing.
The sooner Hollywood realizes film audiences are SICK of these types oftepid imitations, the better. Classic and much-adored movies should beleft to age gracefully and to find audiences on their own terms, forgenerations to come.
The Mona Lisa was not repainted. And if it had of been,, the copy wouldbe spat upon and condemned as a FAKE! Well, this FAKE is even worse.
1/10