EVIL DEAD
"From the moment Mia gets evil and dead, this is one of the grandest of guignols you're ever likely to see."
2013
Directed by Fede Alvarez
Written by Rodo Sayugues, Fede Alvarez, and Diablo Cody
With Jane Levy (Mia), Shiloh Fernandez (David), Lou Taylor Pucci (Eric), Jessica Lucas (Olivia), Elizabeth Blackmore (Natalie)
Spoiler alert: moderate
The Evil Dead had almost no story and barely had characters. Even Ash wasn't really Ash back then; Bruce Campbell was still growing into his chin.
My deficiency has since been rectified, but I didn't get a chance to rewatch the original before going to see the remake back in April. Thus I had only my memories to which to compare it; memories corrupted by one of the sexiest movies of all time, the superior, and different, Evil Dead 2
My deficiency has since been rectified, but I didn't get a chance to rewatch the original before going to see the remake back in April. Thus I had only my memories to which to compare it; memories corrupted by one of the sexiest movies of all time, the superior, and different, Evil Dead 2
Articleless Evil Dead 2013 hardly possesses the full ecstatic charisma of that latter film. This remake is played very straight. But The Evil Dead, however madcap, was itself a purer horror movie, at least in tone. Alvarez' vision is a bit less garish than even that, and its tone is, at times, almost sullen. This has nothing to do with the gore, which is phenomenal. Rather, this movie thinks it has a story; it arguably has characters.
