The Vidiot Reviews

Rating: 6/10 (18 July 2013)

Evil Dead
When reading the Book of the Dead it's probably not a good idea to lick your finger before turning the page.
Mind you, the pages of the tome in this horror movie shouldn't be turned at all.
David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend (Elizabeth Blackmore) and their friends Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Olivia (Jessica Lucas) arrive at the isolated cabin where they will assist with his drug-addled sister Mia's (Jane Levy) withdrawal.
In the basement of the cottage, Eric unearths a barbed wire bound book that he liberates from its bindings and reads.
His words invoke a demon that takes possession of Mia and threatens the lives of the others in the cabin.
A re-make of The Evil Dead, this contemporary take has the production value to amp up the gore but not the scares to surpass its ancestor.
Besides, books in the wild should only be used to start campfires.
Yellow Light
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