Random events, poorly shot—dire rubbish, signed by Raimi. Raining blood

Rating: 3/10 (9 July 2013)

I guess 'Evil Dead' means 'The Evil Dead Beings', or 'The Evil Dead People'—a completely random name for an ambition-less movie, directed and acted by hacks (with Raimi lurking, it seems), sometimes basely parodying, as if it mattered, with a nonexistent script—a mindless roller—coaster of random events—that starts with a handful of youngsters—five, I believe—getting together to help one of them, a young woman, called Mia, to get over the first steps of the withdrawal, the period of fighting addiction. The movie is very disappointing and—ugly, displeasing, completely unexciting and trite.
The addict woman, Mia, and her brother, come from a familial background of insanity.
From the book found beneath the house in the forest, the youngsters find out about the reign of evil—but also about the way to rescue its victims. All events take place during a day (and a storm). The gruesome is of the spectral, and also of the gory kind—specters and gore.
Towards the end, it rains blood, one actress looks good—or, at least, nice—again (perhaps because her character's once careless brother now sacrificed himself for her, in an intendedly galvanic moment), the sun rises, it's over.
There is no storyline—just bits of events, random events—a book, Italian translations written on its pages ('SONO TUTTI MORTI'), fights with chainsaws and nail guns, this sort of very general rubbish—in the most classic American template: a house in the forest, a few youngsters, and high water. This movie is indeed dire rubbish. It looks, as I have mentioned, really ugly, and clumsily shot, the work of a bunch of larval minds.
A hack, Alvarez, directed this movie, but Raimi still has a hand in it, which is a shame—as a producer, which doesn't make him any honor. (I have read that Raimi picked this idiot hack to direct the movie.) I realized I kept forgetting what just happened in the movie—who cut the third victim's hand—where did they read the prophecy, and who read it—etc., but this was because everything seemed so devoid of interest, and lifeless—truly dead, and because the whole set—up has no meaning whatsoever: and was not meant to have any; indeed, a very bad movie.
The acting is dishearteningly poor—a highlight would be the teacher whispering 'evil'.
In truth, I felt thrilled for a moment, at the sight of one of the book's pages—hoping it will remind me of 'Seven'—which it didn't.
The topics are very general, and vague—witchcraft, a cursed book—the hazy Sabbath at the beginning—the obviously threatening witch and her blurred language.
Otherwise, I have seen Evil Dead'in a movie theater where a handful of morons spoiled the otherwise tasteless enjoyment: a couple were ceaselessly crunching chips, and presumably having some kind of damn lunch there—I had brought a bottle of cola, and drank some of it; others were flashing their phones, from time to time.