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Evil Dead (2013)

Directed by Fede Alvarez

Horror

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Overview

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family’s remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

Rated R | Length 91 minutes

Actors

Jane Levy | Shiloh Fernandez | Lou Taylor Pucci | Jessica Lucas | Elizabeth Blackmore | Phoenix Connolly | Jim McLarty | Sian Davis | Stephen Butterworth | Karl Willetts | Randal Wilson | Rupert Degas | Bob Dorian | Ellen Sandweiss | Jack Walley | Bruce Campbell

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Viewing Notes

I enjoyed this quite a bit, though I guess I’m more desensitized to violence than perhaps most people are. Which means I didn’t find this film as horribly gruesome as I probably should have (I blame A Serbian Film).

It was pretty much straight, unrelenting horror and graphic violence from start to stop, tied together nicely with enough plot to make you care. Maybe some fans of the original will lament the lack of any comedy elements, but I think they did the right thing by avoiding mimicking that part of the original. The Evil Dead does a nice job of that and any attempts by this remake to follow in its footsteps would be bound to fail to some degree.

There are still some nice nods to the original movie, and be sure to stick around until the end of the credits.

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