Genre:
Horror, Thriller
Director:
Fede Alvarez
Starring:
Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, Elizabeth Blackmore
Release Date:
Friday 05 April
Evil Dead is 2013 American horror film co-written and directed by Fede Alvarez. It is a remake of Sam Raimi's 1981 critically acclaimed cult horror film The Evil Dead. It is the fourth installment of The Evil Dead franchise, and the first not to be directed by Raimi or star Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams.
Alvarez was hand picked by Raimi himself and it is Alvarez's first feature film. The film was produced by Raimi, Campbell and Robert G. Tapert – the writer/director, lead actor, and producer of the original trilogy respectively. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW on March 9, and it was announced that a sequel was in the works.
Plot
The film opens with a girl being captured in the woods by a
pair of men. She wakes up tied to a post in a basement, with an old woman
reading from an ancient book, saying that her soul must be saved. As her father
is about to light her on fire, she at first pleads for him to save her but then
reveals she is possessed, her skin turning pale and eyes yellow. She is burned
to death.
Sometime later, we find a group of friends meeting at an old
cabin deep in the woods. Mia is attempting to stop her addiction to heroin with
the support of three of her friends (Eric, Olivia, and Natalie) and her brother
David. The siblings have a strained relationship due to the death of their
mother. David, fearful her insanity was genetic and that he would suffer from
it, ran away from the situation while Mia had to tend to her as she died,
causing her addiction. The group is led to a secret cellar under the cabin by
the smell of decaying animal carcasses. Eric finds the Necronomicon, and
despite repeated warnings scrawled within the pages of the book, utters an
incantation from it. Mia begins to see images of a girl with pale skin and
yellow eyes. Later, going through withdrawal, she attempts to escape the woods
but is captured by tree branches and raped by a long vine-like worm which exits
the mouth of the dead girl from the opening of the film and enters Mia's body.
Making her way back to the cabin, Mia attempts to warn David
about the demon but the group believes she is trying to leave to find more
drugs. Mia kills the family dog with a hammer and then burns herself in the
shower, sustaining serious injuries. David attempts to drive her to a hospital,
but the rainfall has flooded the exit routes. Back at the cabin, Mia warns the
group they won't survive the night, and attacks Olivia, vomiting on her face
and in her mouth. In the struggle, Mia falls into the cellar and the group
locks her in. Following a cue from the book, Olivia cuts the skin off of the
lower half of her face with a piece of glass. When Eric tries to stop her, she
attempts to kill him but is stopped when he beats her head open with a piece of
the sink.
While David treats Eric's wounds, Natalie hears the real Mia
weeping and goes into the cellar, only to be bitten on the hand by the
possessed Mia. Natalie escapes, but her hand becomes possessed and she is
forced to cut off her arm with an electric knife to prevent the spread. Eric
reveals from reading the book that the demon needs to devour five souls in
order to emerge into the world of the living. To do this, the demon has
attached itself to Mia's soul, and the only ways to save her soul are to burn
her, bury her alive, or dismember her; attempts to destroy the book itself are
shown to be futile. A now-possessed Natalie attacks David and Eric with a nail gun;
she is killed in the struggle, but Eric sustains near-fatal injuries. David
resolves to burn Mia and the cabin down, but at the last minute decides on a
different plan.
David enters the cellar with tranquilizers but is attacked
by Mia. Eric saves him but is stabbed to death in the process. David buries the
possessed Mia with a bag over her head while she taunts him. After Mia dies, he
digs her up and shocks her heart back to life, the possession now removed.
David goes back into the house for the car keys but is attacked by Eric, who
was possessed by the infected blood on the knife Mia stabbed him with. David
locks Mia out of the house then burns it down with himself and Eric still
inside.
As Mia begins to walk away, blood begins to rain down, and
the girl Mia saw earlier in the woods crawls out of the ground. After a long
fight-and-chase sequence (including the demon pinning Mia's arm under their
jeep and forcing herself to tear off her left hand), Mia manages to destroy the
demon body with a chainsaw and it sinks back into the ground. The blood rain
stops as dawn breaks, and Mia wanders away from the ruins of the cabin. Next to
the place where David had buried Mia, the Naturom Demonto closes on its own.
During the end credits, there is audio from the original
film of a professor telling about seeing dark shadows in the woods that he
"resurrected" who are calling for him. Then, in a brief post-credits
scene, an older, more experienced Ash Williams says his iconic line,
"Groovy."
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References.
External links:
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