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Evil Dead

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Mia (Jane Levy), a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend, Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore) and their friends Olivia (Jessica Lucas) and Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) 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.
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It may lack the absurd humor that underlined the original, but the new-look Evil Dead compensates with brutal terror, gory scares, and gleefully bloody violence.

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Monica Castillo Bitch Media The current reboot feels uncreative. Watching the new film just made me miss Bruce Campbell's chin and shots of Raimi running insane through the woods. May 10, 2016 Full Review Tara Brady Irish Times Using the very latest Cern-tested atom interferometry, we can reveal that Evil Dead is precisely, exactly - in the coldest atomic terms -the film that you were expecting. Rated: 3/5 Apr 19, 2013 Full Review Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard Happy days for those who love this sort of thing. But Raimi's effort, perhaps because we hadn't seen the plot before, was infinitely more scary. Rated: 2/5 Apr 19, 2013 Full Review Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana Ghouls Magazine Fede Álvarez’s Evil Dead, while not entirely following the Evil Dead traditions the cult classic is famous for, creates a further sprawl into the Raimi-verse, bringing the world of the Deadites firmly into modern day. Rated: 5/5 Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Takes the bones of the core concept, then remixes and reimagines them in ways that honor the spirit of the source material without trying to replicate it. Without Bruce Campbell's charm, this might be the best we could get out of an Evil Dead revival. Rated: 4/5 Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Miles Surrey The Ringer Horror remakes are notoriously difficult to get right, but the 2013 update on Sam Raimi’s classic sets the bar for other franchises to follow. Apr 6, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jonatan This movie is bananas! Gory , nasty, brutal, and unrelenting. Amazing practical effects and kills! People complain cause the tone is different but this is its own thing! Must watxh. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/25 Full Review Robert R Pains me to say I actually liked this one more than its 1981 counterpart, but I did. Not too much more, but when you're five minutes longer than the original, yet still feel more aerodynamic pacing-wise, I kinda have to give you the medal. Of course, with that faster pacing comes lesser character development, but I didn't really need this to be that sort of horror movie, if that makes sense? Once you start seeing the gore effects at work, you realize what this movie's really cooking with. And, considering I'm not even really a 'gore guy' per se, it says a lot that I came out of this with that being one of the clear highlights. Plus, I think time's only been kinder to this movie as an homage to the Sam Raimi classic. Future Fede Alvarez efforts would show that he really was working out of his stylistic comfort zone here in many ways (evocative camera movement, canted angles, etc.), winking decisively, yet subtly and not in a way that feels like 'memberberry' pandering. Thank God this did as well as it did too, for it led us towards those aforementioned romps he's made since ("Don't Breathe" and "Alien: Romulus" being my two favorites). Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/10/25 Full Review Adam B This movie is exactly as a remake should be. Utilizing the original movie's vibe, but being able to improve on it with modern movie making. Evil Dead truly captures the absolute shlock, gory fun of the first movie but being bigger, badder, and much bloodier and gorier. An absolutely brutal movie, it's effects and performances bring a gorefest into something more memorable then most people give it credit for. For hardcore horror fans, a must watch, absolutely. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/09/25 Full Review thiago s Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, o filme tem cenas bacanas com muito sangue e que salvou o filme, os personagens são fracos perto dos personagens do primeiro filme, e o filme colocou muito sangue no final mas não foi o suficiente para ser bom. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/18/25 Full Review Andres A This film is a really worthy remake of The Evil Dead which is full of bloody scenes, good characters and which is better, is not just the modern copy from the original in contrast to, it takes good decisions and let us a really nice final girl. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/25 Full Review Audience Member I think people hate on this film because they want it to be the original Evil Dead. It is it's own version. It is darker in tone but still feels like Evil Dead in vibes. The cinematography is amazing. The effects are phenomenal. The writing is great. The acting is perfect. It all comes together so well. This is a wonderful directed piece of art that 100% feels like Evil Dead. It is super bloody. It has memorable lines that definetley feel Evil Deadish. The ending is great. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Mia (Jane Levy), a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend, Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore) and their friends Olivia (Jessica Lucas) and Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) 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.
Director
Fede Alvarez
Producer
Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell
Screenwriter
Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues Mendez
Distributor
Sony Pictures
Production Co
Ghost House Pictures
Rating
R (Some Sexual Content|Language|Strong Bloody Violence/Gore)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 5, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 16, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$54.2M
Runtime
1h 31m
Sound Mix
SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
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