Evil Dead

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Evil Dead

R

Released Apr 5, 2013

1h 31m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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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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Critics Consensus

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Darcy J

thrillingly disgusting, but i cant help feel that their fate would be different if they had used their brains.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/25/25

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Austin S

Whoever doesn’t like this movie has zero taste. You couldn’t ask for a better remake.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/05/25

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Carlos I

My thoughts on this one just don't sway... It's actually a rather fun reboot. It's disappointing that they lose the absurdist humor, replacing it with just punishing brutality and gore. It loses some of its Deadite magic in that move. But it's effective and the gore is quality. My only other issues are with continuity, but those are nit-picks. It's still a fun revamp.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/29/25

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Rhys T

An absolute classic, a must watch for gore fans.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/25/25

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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

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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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