The two young men don't seem to hold any reverence for Raimi's debut, nor do they seem to expect much of their audience to, even if few '80s horror movies command as much respect from genre enthusiasts. This Evil Dead reboot marks the feature and English language debuts of Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez and his co-writer Rodo Sayagues. This graphic outing suggests that an NC-17 rating is now unobtainable by violence alone, which is ironic given that sex scenes in Blue Valentine required an appeal just two and a half years ago. Evil Dead serves up extreme gore: buckets of blood, streams of urine, limb-cutting, bone-snapping, and dangling tendons.
It is amazing the amount of carnage you can get into an R-rated movie these days. Naturally, wicked things begin to befall the rest of the party for what seems like one eternal rainy night. While Mia is soon traumatized and violated by a vine-vomiting forest cipher, her support group writes off her claims as withdrawal delusions from her taxing cold turkey attempt.
As in the original film, no good comes from this Book of the Dead. In secret, one member of the group, Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci), ignores warnings and invokes an ancient curse from a suspiciously chained-up homemade text found in the disorganized cabin's disturbing basement.
She is joined by her loving brother (Shiloh Hernandez), mutual friends, and significant others. Mia (Jane Levy) is trying again to kick her drug habit, following another near-fatal overdose. Instead of spring break shenanigans, however, these kids are here for something more meaningful. Neither seems heavily involved in this update, which distances from the original script in all but a setting and general themes.Īs it often is in horror movies, that setting is a cabin in the woods visited by a group of young people. The original film, though, is now old enough to be considered a classic and to undergo the obligatory remake.Ģ013's Evil Dead drops the titular article but retains the participation of Raimi and his leading man Bruce Campbell, both of whom take producer credits here. It spawned a comedic sequel considered even better and then the time-traveling adventure Army of Darkness that's a cult classic independent of the series. First screened in 1981 and given standard theatrical release in early 1983, shoestring horror movie The Evil Dead launched the career of its writer-director Sam Raimi.