Evil Dead

Plot 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 in the presence of a woman who speaks only Welsh, 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 being sick andd 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 spits 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 throw up 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 wets 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.

Tags: paranormal, violence, horror, entertaining, flashback

Review:
We seem to be in a time where the remakes of remakes will be remade, even films like Cabin Fever aren't remaining sacred, the obligatory remake follows.Evil Dead now is a remake with a bit of bite, of course it has every possible cliche under the sun ticked off.
I didn't have the chance to watch the original yet, so I'm going to review this without comparing it with the original.The movie actually starts out pretty slow, for the first 40 minutes there isn't any creepy parts and it actually bores me.
For example, the director sets the cameras in different angles, such as the floor or close to the wall, which makes it extraordinary from other films.On the other hand, Evil Dead lacks character developments, but for its own sake, bloody horror doesn't really need character developments.
The original Evil Dead was a terrifying experience, even with Bruce Campbell's over the top performance, the film was a scare-fest, a terrifying trip even nearly ten years after its release.
The camp was in Evil Dead 2, an horror comedy remaking the original already, technically.
After roughly a first half of the movie taking Evil Dead fans by the hand towards hashed and rehashed territories, making them doubt that this was a good idea at all, the movie lets go of your hand and you're alone, in the middle of the woods, and it's dark and there's strange noises all about...
In all fairness, director Fede Alvarez has come through successfully on remaking this 81 cult horror, that sees a group of young campers, possessed by evil spirits from that notorious book that should never been opened.
I must admit I was disappointed at one aspect, as I thought it would be full on throughout, much like Evil Dead 2, (my oldie favourite) where everything just goes crazy and you can't think straight, but there's enough blood shed in this to satisfy you gore lovers.
Acting by Levy was perfect, gore was fantastic, scares were good, and the movie had my attention all the way through..
'EVIL DEAD': Five Stars (Out of Five)The first five star movie of 2013 is this long awaited reboot to writer/director Sam Raimi's 1981 cult classic original 'THE EVIL DEAD'.
I grew up on these films and am extremely excited to see Raimi and Campbell picking the series up again and think they're off to a great start.The story picks up 30 years after the original 'THE EVIL DEAD' film ended with a new group of kids going to the same cabin so Mia (Levy) can try to detox and get over her opiate addiction.
The violence and gore is out of control (It was first rated NC-17, like the original) and it really is a true hardcore horror film; it's truly exhilarating and relentless.
I have no real complaints; it's a masterpiece just like the original film and it's sequels!Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn0mEP_zzoQ.
Why I do give kudos to the director is that he made the movie he wanted to make but to please the old school fans he added references to the original.The acting of course had to be good too and luckily it was.
Finally horror is back with some evil dead to show you....Gore 4/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 4/5 Story 4/5 Comedy 0/5.
Heck, the last original and clever horror movie I saw was Cabin in the Woods, which was actually a horror themed comedy rather than a true horror film.Sadly, the Evil Dead remake turned out to be just as disappointing and toothless as I expected it to be.
Then subtract Ash. There's your Evil Dead.One thing that made the original have such charm is that it wasn't just a low budget film, it was practically a student film!
Please stop exhuming original classic films from their rightful place of rest, giving them a cheap modern makeover, then foisting them upon us like they are a new dish, created by the world's finest chefs.
It was clearly stated that it was going to be completely different from the original trilogy and therefore all ties with them had to be broken if they wanted to make a GOOD movie.
Hakf the audience was laughing when someone possessed would start talking in demon voice."Evil Dead '13" is like the countless other remakes that have come before it, it has no soul.
The film tries to redeem itself in the last 15 minutes but it just feels like you're watching a completely different movie at that point.Overall, it's a bloody deja vu.
I have mixed feelings about Comedy/Horror because most of the time the Comedy is used to allow the filmmaker (I mean the "not very good" film makers) to use it like when they know they can't pull off any real scares so they dumb it down and have the actors doing the same take, more or less but get them to do it in a silly way.
I don't even feel like it was a cheap imitation of the original because it didn't even come close and I don't know why it even carries the "Evil Dead" name.Many "scary" parts had the entire packed theater cracking up.
But what these original movies had were low budget film makers who made excellent films out of love and desire of the material.You cannot take a movie that takes place in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, add huge production values and blood and expect it to come anywhere near the "Evil Dead." The existence of this dreadful piece of garbage is sad and they need to bury it for good..
I always thought it was a little risqué voting movies on either sides of a scale as far as being way too negative (1/10) or way too positive (10/10) but I honestly believe this movie is deservedly a 1/10.I really don't want to spend most of this review talking about the details, it's pretty much the same thing from the original Dead, but each transition in the story is sloppy and careless.Bad things happen yet the movie fails to make me care about any of it.The transition from one event to the other gives little to no momentum for the overall narrative.
Everything that transpires amongst the characters and the story as a whole is haphazardly thrown together if not just for the sake of adhering to the original Evil Dead movie and reminding you that you're watching the same movie.There is some macabre humor put in here and there but the execution of the story is so serious it would go over your head or get a delayed reaction.The violence in this movie is also radically over the top, and seems to be as jolted in as the rest of the plot points in the movie are.
I thought some more intelligent, scary elements would be in this movie.Simply said: There really isn't a good horror film anymore.
I'm writing this review because I can't stand thinking about other fans of the series of the movies that will be duped just like I was by the overall high score of the new Evil Dead movie and some of the glowing reviews.I feel like I should rate the movie a 1 instead of the 2 I gave it just to help balance out the people who are giving it a 10/10, etc.
Even the good old evil book now has nice red scribblings in giant letters because it appears the director assumed the audience would be too stupid to figure out the book was bad news without it being written on it that it was in big red letters.This film might have worked going with the more horror and gore and stripping away the comedy of the originals.
It does a lot of the special effects better (which certainly wasn't hard to do) and has some more gross-out moments, but I don't think anyone going to see this film would have agreed to trade out the comedy of the originals for more minutes of mindless gore.If you're the type of person who realizes gore does not equal horror, skip this one.
Rather than use the extra budget to fully realize the ideas and quirks that made the originals awesome......those buckets of cash are dumped into bloated, overlong run times and buckets of CGI blood sloshed about with a few surround sound sheer volume "jump" moments.Unfortunately a lot of makes B horror classics special is the inventiveness forced by their sheer lack of budget.Concise runtimes born of necessity often kept things moving at a brisk pace, with out fluff or an excess of pointless padding.Think about "The Beyond" and its glorious dime store surrealism, "Dead & Buried"'s layers of moody atmosphere, the weird quirk that managed to make people root for "The Human Centipede" to escape its scenery chewing creator....or in the case of "The Evil Dead" the fact that it was a horror film, but had a very good balance of black comedy, and Bruce Campbell had an excellent knack for knowing when to toss in a bit of a wink and a nudge.
Without the spirited ability to make fun of itself......."The Evil Dead" becomes a shadow of its former self, and the few spots where the remake changes essential plot elements only serve to make this ever more of a wad of ABC gum, with about as much flavor.The protagonists die in the exact order you'd expect them to, and it all comes across as oddly perfunctory, with buckets of bile and a demon with a voice stolen straight from "The Exorcist" part of just another day at the office.Additionally, for a $14,000,000 film, it's appallingly sloppy in a way that could easily been avoided with that much production budget.
Objects are broken, tossed aside or set on fire....only to necromance back to their original state a few frames later.The modern "Evil Dead" committed the cardinal sin of a horror film.
Everything good about the original is taken away and everything bad about contemporary horror movies is added in.
I love the new Evil Dead and I like it a lot more than the original.
Filled with great direction,wonderful special effects and a good cast,Evil Dead is one of the best remakes in recent years.Evil Dead tells the story of five friends including siblings Mia(Jane Levy)and David(Shiloh Fernandez)who are staying at a remote cabin in the woods.
Now,the group has to figure out how to stay alive and survive...The Evil Dead.Over the past ten years the word "Remake" has left a bad taste in Horror fans mouths seeing Horror classics being remade left and right and it seemed like no Horror film was excluded from being remade.
One of those Horror classics that was remade was Sam Raimi's brilliant The Evil Dead one of my all-time favorite Horror films.
But when I finally saw the remake I thought while it doesn't replace the original Evil Dead is one of the best remakes I have seen in years.
What I also like about this film is that while it is a remake of the original film,it decides to go it's own way by giving viewers the same story,but with new characters and a couple of twists and additions to the film.
Well at least the tree rape was a solid homage, but I still prefer the original's.All in all, "Evil Dead" can't be described as "awful", "insulting", or a bad remake.
What can I really say about this terrible film Just for the record I have seen the original many times and this remake well please read on......
The whole movie is sloppy in its presentation, with more detail being given to fancy murder scenes that hope to distract the viewer with hyper gore so they'll ignore how bad and stupid the entire story is.Don't bother with this film.
This is a must see film for any horror fan, which almost sounds like blasphemy considering its a remake!
Oh dear, I can't remember the last time I watched a movie and was unable to find even 1 redeeming feature.This is a 'horror' movie for people who don't want to be scared, every part of the film is a tired rehash of many other horror movies (think exorcist, numerous teenagers lost in the woods flicks etc) but done much, much worse and, save for a few scenes, not much of a nod to the evil dead original.
Although it carries an 18 rating it is without doubt the least scary horror film I have ever seen - it is so predictable it's embarrassing and it makes for a long 90 minutes.I went into this movie genuinely excited to see how they were going to take it but but left incredibly frustrated as a reprise of the evil dead should have been a surefire hit - sadly it feels like it was made solely to put cash in the bank.To summarise this film is a waste of time - save your money and spend it on something better like a tooth extraction or your 1st instalment on that lobotomy you never wanted..
A Hollywood remake of the indie low-budget classic horror film that introduced the world to Sam Raimi didn't need to be done.
We hope that it will enhance the original or that this new director will make it more bloody and brutally extreme, as Alexandre Aja did with The Hills Have Eyes.The new Evil Dead begins by trying to give the cabin a reason for feeling haunted with an out-of-place back-story in the vein of The Exorcist.
But as in the original Evil Dead films, it's not like anyone with any brains has ever bothered to try to stay in this cabin.
Shooting a cabin in the woods horror movie on a sound stage is treating your audience like children going to see a family-friendly fantasy film.
In Alvarez's vision, it's something that looks like an Asian ghost girl from Ju-On: The Grudge, which we got used to seeing back in 2004 and is far from scary now.For fans of the original Evil Dead films, this will be as horrible of an experience as it was for Star Wars fans to witness The Phantom Menace or Indiana Jones fans to watch The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The perfect case in point: Sam Raimi's 1981 low budget thriller, The Evil Dead, a true cult classic in the horror genre.
It is an understatement to say that this film is not for the squeamish.)Evil Dead (2013) slaughters the essence of its original source to satiate today's modern movie-going audience's thirst for blood and gore.
It was a bloody good time one of the best horror films to come out this year so far.
I think the Producer is the only Evil Dead thing about this Movie!
I think I rather re-watch the whole original "Evil Dead" trilogy.
I thought the actors did a great job, you really feel like one of their friends going through it with them, I think Shiloh Fernandez and Jane Levy do an exceptional job, you believe the horror they are going through.I saw this with a full cinema who really got into it, there were laughs, screams and the inevitable hands over the eyes.
This reanimated remake of the classic Evil Dead starts out a view askew from the original, but heads off into the general known storyline before things get completely out of hand.
But if you take yourself too seriously and think there is no way an Evil Dead movie without Bruce Campbell could be good, just stay at home and miss out on one of the few excellent remakes ever made..
It is like they want the movie to be identical to the original and that's not what a remake should be.
From a personal standpoint, myself being an original Evil Dead fan, I don't think the movie could have done much of a better job.
EVIL DEAD, a legacy of horror movies.
Even if this movie was not a sequel/remake of evil dead, it would still be a very generic, very mundane, very boring 1hr 30mins.
First of all I want to Say This is my First Review at IMDb. As a Horror Film Buff for last 20 years (I am Now 29 :) I cannot bear the Insult This movie has done to the Original.
Mia, Olivia and Natalie are possessed by evil and Eric reads the book trying to learn how to destroy the demon."The Evil Dead" (1981) is a classic horror movie by Sam Raimi and his debut and beginning of his successful career.
Despite the low-budget, Sam Raimi made a scary movie, using an original camera work and simple scenario."Evil Dead" (2013) is a stupid and gore remake with awful situations.
It's just the way it is.The film contains lots of gross-out, bloody scenes (much like the original).
I am a true fan of the original Evil Dead flicks and was super stoked when the remake came out..went to see it alone (im not a freak)and sat watching and never really got too darn excited about what I was watching...granted the opening scene is good and the last minutes were entertaining!
I especially missed the campy type of dark humor that was in the 1981 original, there was only 1 or 2 lame attempts at anything like this in the remake, granted there is enough blood and gore to satisfy most horror fans.
If you enjoyed the original Evil Dead films, avoid this at all costs.
fact is evil dead (2013) is a one time movie.
I was disappointed that this 2013 remake seemed to draw its inspiration only from the first film.Even though I'm not a fan of the original Evil Dead, I think this film is inferior in many ways.
My friend and I have been waiting for this movie for so long; we haven't seen the original, no, so this review in no way applies to the initial film or the storyline within that.