The Girl From Hell

Rating: 8/10 (27 September 2013)

My film review is on the movie "The Evil Dead" (2013). It is a horror film that starts out with a young girl Mia, (Jane Levy) that is addicted to heroin. Her brother David (Shiloh Fernandez) and their 3 friends take her to their parent's cabin so she can detox. She swears up and down to never touch the drug again and dumps it down a well. When she starts detoxing, she goes crazy and starts hearing voices and steals her brother's car and tries to go home. She ends up crashing and at that point one of the friends, Eric (Lou Pucci), finds a book and reads a passage in it. He ends up waking up a demon that possesses Mia when she's running through the woods. They end up finding her and take her back to the cabin. When Mia gets possessed she starts killing each and every one of her friends saving the brother for last all because in the book the demon needs five pure souls to bring his own corpse up from hell.
I believe that the director's intention was to provide a movie with not only a subtle plot scheme but also the most gore ever seen in one movie. This movie makes the blood spilling in Kill Bill look like someone got a paper cut. Fede Alvarez is the director and I think he did an excellent job at creating the gore affect. Some might say if was a little over dramatic and the actors reaction to their limbs and stuff getting cut off was a little less than someone would react to in reality. I mean Eric was one of the last guys to die and he was shot and shot with a nail gun and beaten by a crow bar and he still didn't die.
My overall opinion on the movie would be an 8 out of 10 the plot and acting was a little weak but the gore and demon affect was spot on. I especially like the special effects they did with the demon and the eyes of the people that were possessed. They turned a hazel looking color which made the watcher know for sure that the characters were possessed.