Evil Dead
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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.
What critics thought
The 2013 Evil Dead remake lands as a divisive exercise in extreme gore — admirers argue it delivers relentless practical-effects horror that honors the spirit of Raimi's original, while detractors find it an unoriginal scare machine that mistakes gross-out brutality for genuine dread. The biggest fault line is whether wall-to-wall carnage alone can carry a film when the characters are thinly drawn and the wit of the source material is mostly absent.
“an assault on the senses”
Matt Singer·ScreenCrush
“terrifying, exhilarating and relentlessly entertaining new chapter in the Evil Dead story”
Chris Tilly·IGN
“Evil Dead has ample cheap shocks and few bloodcurdling frights but it builds to something gorily bravura and, if that's your bag, you'll come away satisfied.”
Emma Simmonds·The List
“I love horror films that truly shock, scare and provoke. But after 30 years of this stuff, I'm bored to death and sick to death of movies that seem to have one goal: How can we gross out the audience by torturing nearly every major character in the movie?”
Richard Roeper·rogerebert.com
Genres
Horror
Cast & Crew
Fede ÁlvarezDirector
Jane LevyMia
Shiloh FernandezDavid
Lou Taylor PucciEric
Jessica LucasOlivia
Elizabeth BlackmoreNatalie
Phoenix ConnollyTeenager
Jim McLartyHarold
Sian DavisOld Woman
Stephen ButterworthToothless Redneck
Karl WillettsLong-Haired Redneck
Rupert DegasDemon (voice)
Roque BañosComposer
Rodo SayaguesWriter
Aaron MortonCinematographyEvil Dead
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.
What critics thought
The 2013 Evil Dead remake lands as a divisive exercise in extreme gore — admirers argue it delivers relentless practical-effects horror that honors the spirit of Raimi's original, while detractors find it an unoriginal scare machine that mistakes gross-out brutality for genuine dread. The biggest fault line is whether wall-to-wall carnage alone can carry a film when the characters are thinly drawn and the wit of the source material is mostly absent.
“an assault on the senses”
Matt Singer·ScreenCrush
“terrifying, exhilarating and relentlessly entertaining new chapter in the Evil Dead story”
Chris Tilly·IGN
“Evil Dead has ample cheap shocks and few bloodcurdling frights but it builds to something gorily bravura and, if that's your bag, you'll come away satisfied.”
Emma Simmonds·The List
“I love horror films that truly shock, scare and provoke. But after 30 years of this stuff, I'm bored to death and sick to death of movies that seem to have one goal: How can we gross out the audience by torturing nearly every major character in the movie?”
Richard Roeper·rogerebert.com
Genres
Horror
Cast & Crew
Fede ÁlvarezDirectorJane LevyMiaShiloh FernandezDavidLou Taylor PucciEricJessica LucasOliviaElizabeth BlackmoreNataliePhoenix ConnollyTeenagerJim McLartyHaroldSian DavisOld WomanStephen ButterworthToothless RedneckKarl WillettsLong-Haired RedneckRupert DegasDemon (voice)Roque BañosComposerRodo SayaguesWriterAaron MortonCinematographyStream
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