Evil Dead (2013) Review

The 2013 reboot of the cult b-movie horror classic ‘Evil Dead’,  the remake aims to move away from the original and dose this in a big way, by getting rid of a horror/bad ass icon ‘Ash Williams’ this helps the film come into its own by not trying to emulate or copy what they did but having there own characters. All through this would worry hardcore ans of the original three films i really feel that with both Sami Rami and Bruce Campbel both being producers on the film helped quite these fans worries.

Now this Evil Dead is going for the practical and amazingly well done effects. it is great to see all of these things done without CGI and this just hleps with what the film is going for. To make you look away and go ‘OMG DA FUCK IS WITH HER/HIM!” the film really does this well and i have to praise the fairly small director for stepping up to the plate and doing a really amazing remake and probably the best remake in a really long time.

But the main problem with this film is the characters…in all honestly they are just there character traits to me/what they look like, this is one of the films faults, with all these gore filled horror scenes as gory and horrible as they are, it loses a lot of impact when i don’t care about the characters at all. When the characters are just ‘guy with glasses’ ‘brother’ ‘posses chick’ ‘black nurse’ and ‘blonde girl’ i honestly have no real effect when these amazingly put together and well done horror effects happen to them, i honestly cared more about the dog then i did the rest of the characters.

With this the films story is really quite well put togethor. With a group of friends getting together to get the main characters go cold turkey from ‘insert drug here’, and then they find creepy book, nerconomicon Ex mortis, evil demon summoning book. there is a stupid/curoius member of the group who reads the clearly Evil Book…coz they are stupid. and so this cold turkey girl gets a demon inside her, in one of the most cringe worthy and creepy scenes involving a tree scene the original Evil Dead, and so they put the off the strange behavior  as she is getting off the drugs untill things get to late and it just gets so much worse, and of coruse they have a fairly reasonable reason to stay in this creepy cabin, as the whole ‘have to keep her away from drugs’ and other problems

Now the film is littered with references to the other films, some needed and quite cool but others feel unneeded and a little forced to be honest.

At a warning….this film is bloody, gory mess of amazing practical effects and slightly  better acting then the orignal Evil Dead. it is quite well written and smart giving them reasons for staying in this very very creepy cabin int he middle of no where, where if any horror moive buff or if Randy from ‘Scream’ was in this film…would be running away from as fast as there nerdt legs could carry them.

A very good horror that has its own places as just more then a remake of a B-Movie classic.

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