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During the film's closing credits, audio is heard from the original film; Professor Raymond Knowby tells about his discovery of the ''Naturom Demonto''. Then, in a brief [[post-credits scene]], an older [[Ash Williams]] ([[Bruce Campbell]]) recites his iconic line from ''[[Evil Dead II]]'', "Groovy", under dim light, and turns to the audience.
During the film's closing credits, audio is heard from the original film; Professor Raymond Knowby tells about his discovery of the ''Naturom Demonto''. Then, in a brief [[post-credits scene]], an older [[Ash Williams]] ([[Bruce Campbell]]) recites his iconic line from ''[[Evil Dead II]]'', "Groovy", under dim light, and turns to the audience.

'''Order of Deaths:'''<ref>{{cite web|title=Evil Dead Spoiler|url=http://themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/evildead2013.html|publisher=The Movie SPoiler|accessdate=26 April 2013}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=Evil Dead Movie Pooper|url=http://moviepooper.com/pooperpg2.html|publisher=The Movie Pooper}}</ref>

* '''Teenage Girl''' - Possessed by the Deadite, her soul is purified when she is lit on fire by her father. The father then shoots her in the head with a shotgun.

* '''Grandpa, the dog''' - The pooch is found beaten to death with a claw-hammer.

* '''Olivia''' - Becomes possessed after Mia pukes blood down her throat. She manages to carve off part of her own face and attack Eric before Eric bashes her skull in with a toilet lid.

* '''Natalie''' - She is assaulted by Mia and bit on the hand. Natalie cuts off her infected arm with an electric meat carver but succumbs to her massive trauma. She is possessed and attacks Eric and David. Eric kills her by bashing her head in with a crowbar.
* '''Eric''' - He is stabbed with shards of a mirror, stabbed in the eye with a needle, shot with a nail gun and has some of his fingers chopped off. He is ultimately killed by Mia when stabbed in the stomach by a box cutter. He comes back as a possessed demon, and is killed when David blows up the cabin.

* '''David''' - He is stabbed, injured by a shotgun blast, shot with a nail gun and almost drowned. The fatal blow comes when a possessed Eric stabs him in the neck with some nails. Before he dies, he shoots a gas can, blowing up himself and Eric along with the cabin.

* '''Deadite/Eater of Souls/Evil Mia''' - The demon attacks Mia, slicing open Mia's kneecap and arm and even causing Mia to lose her hand (Mia's hand is pinned under a Jeep that the demon throws at her). The resourceful Mia survives these injuries and manages to cut off the Deadite's leg with a chainsaw. Mia then jams the chainsaw down the injured Deadite's throat and cuts it completely in half. The demon's body sinks back into the ground.


==Cast==
==Cast==

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Evil Dead
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFede Alvarez
Screenplay by
  • Fede Alvarez
  • Rodo Sayagues
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAaron Morton
Edited byBryan Shaw
Music byRoque Baños
Production
companies
Distributed byTriStar Pictures (USA)
Sony Pictures (Int'l)
Release dates
  • March 8, 2013 (2013-03-08) (SXSW Film Festival)
  • April 5, 2013 (2013-04-05) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$17 million[2]
Box office$97,454,981[2]

Evil Dead is a 2013 American horror film co-written and directed by Fede Alvarez. It is the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series. It is the first not to be directed by Sam Raimi.

The film is the feature debut of Alvarez, whom Raimi selected. It was produced by Raimi, Bruce 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 South by Southwest festival on March 8, 2013. On March 9, 2013, it was announced that the film will have a sequel, followed by a crossover with the original trilogy. Evil Dead was announced on July 15, 2013 to be adapted into a live experience as the first maze announced for Universal Studios Hollywood's & the second maze for Universal Orlando Resort's annual Halloween Horror Nights event for 2013.

Plot

Captured in the woods, an injured girl (Phoenix Connolly) is restrained in a basement with many people present. Upon revealing she is demonically possessed, her father, Harold (Jim McLarty), sets her on fire and shoots her dead.

Subsequently, a group of friends, Mia (Jane Levy), Mia's brother David (Shiloh Fernandez), Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci), Olivia (Jessica Lucas) and David's girlfriend, Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore), arrange a getaway to an old, remote cabin in the woods, helping Mia to get clean after her severe drug addiction led to her clinical death.

At the cabin, a foul stench leads them to discover a cellar, hosting animal corpses, a double-barreled shotgun and a book titled Naturom Demonto, a Sumerian variation of the Book of the Dead. Ignoring warnings on the book's pages, Eric reads a passage aloud, summoning a demon which enters Mia's body. Terrified, Mia pleads to leave, but the group refuses, after agreeing with Mia to stay put and help her through her addiction. Possessed by the demon, Mia attempts to warn David, but the group dismiss her claims as an excuse to leave. After killing David's dog, Mia burns her face in the boiling hot shower, fulfilling a prophecy from the book. David rushes to get her to a hospital, but a flood blocks the roads.

Later, Mia shoots David in the arm with the shotgun, as her demonic side threatens the group. She manages to possess Olivia and Natalie, who then fulfill the book's prophecy. Olivia stabs Eric and Natalie attacks both David and Eric with a nail gun and a crowbar. Eric beats Olivia to death with a broken sink piece and David shoots Natalie, dismembering her arm, and causing her to bleed to death. Attempts to destroy the book are futile, as it describes a prophecy by which a demon, referred to as a Taker of Souls, needs to devour five souls in order to free the Abomination from hell. To achieve this, the demon has taken possession of Mia's body, and the three ways to release her are to burn her, bury her alive, or dismember her.

David makes a plan to burn Mia, however he is emotional about Mia's lullaby and backs out. He then enters the cellar with tranquilizers, but Mia attacks him before Eric saves him. Eric finally dies from his wounds, David immobilizes Mia and buries her outside the cabin. After Mia dies, he digs her out and uses an improvised defibrillator to revive her free from possession. Back at the cabin, David is attacked by a revived and possessed Eric. Mortally wounded, David gives Mia the car keys to leave and locks her out of the house. Eric warns David about the Abomination's arrival. David shoots at gasoline to engulf the house in flames, killing both of them in the process.

Shortly after, the final stage of the prophecy from the book takes place. It begins to rain blood, and the Abomination crawls out of the ground and goes after Mia. During the pursuit, Mia is forced to rip off her hand when it becomes pinned under David's Jeep. Mia then manages to kill the Abomination with a chainsaw, and its remains sink "back to hell". The blood rain stops as dawn breaks, and Mia wanders away from the aftermath, oblivious to the Naturom Demonto on the ground as the book closes on its own.

During the film's closing credits, audio is heard from the original film; Professor Raymond Knowby tells about his discovery of the Naturom Demonto. Then, in a brief post-credits scene, an older Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) recites his iconic line from Evil Dead II, "Groovy", under dim light, and turns to the audience.

Order of Deaths:[3] [4]

  • Teenage Girl - Possessed by the Deadite, her soul is purified when she is lit on fire by her father. The father then shoots her in the head with a shotgun.
  • Grandpa, the dog - The pooch is found beaten to death with a claw-hammer.
  • Olivia - Becomes possessed after Mia pukes blood down her throat. She manages to carve off part of her own face and attack Eric before Eric bashes her skull in with a toilet lid.
  • Natalie - She is assaulted by Mia and bit on the hand. Natalie cuts off her infected arm with an electric meat carver but succumbs to her massive trauma. She is possessed and attacks Eric and David. Eric kills her by bashing her head in with a crowbar.
  • Eric - He is stabbed with shards of a mirror, stabbed in the eye with a needle, shot with a nail gun and has some of his fingers chopped off. He is ultimately killed by Mia when stabbed in the stomach by a box cutter. He comes back as a possessed demon, and is killed when David blows up the cabin.
  • David - He is stabbed, injured by a shotgun blast, shot with a nail gun and almost drowned. The fatal blow comes when a possessed Eric stabs him in the neck with some nails. Before he dies, he shoots a gas can, blowing up himself and Eric along with the cabin.
  • Deadite/Eater of Souls/Evil Mia - The demon attacks Mia, slicing open Mia's kneecap and arm and even causing Mia to lose her hand (Mia's hand is pinned under a Jeep that the demon throws at her). The resourceful Mia survives these injuries and manages to cut off the Deadite's leg with a chainsaw. Mia then jams the chainsaw down the injured Deadite's throat and cuts it completely in half. The demon's body sinks back into the ground.

Cast

In addition, using audio from the original film, Bob Dorian plays Professor Raymond Knowby during the credits and Ellen Sandweiss plays a voice cameo as Cheryl Williams. Bruce Campbell plays Ash Williams in an uncredited cameo appearance.

The initial letters of the five main characters' names (David, Eric, Mia, Olivia, Natalie) form an acrostic spelling out the word DEMON.[5]

Production

Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues co-wrote the script, which was then doctored by Diablo Cody in an effort to Americanize the dialogue since English was not the writers' first language.[6] The film was produced by Raimi, Campbell, and Robert G. Tapert — the producers of the original trilogy.

Raimi and Campbell had planned a remake for many years, but in 2009, Campbell stated the proposed remake was "going nowhere" and had "fizzled" due to extremely negative fan reaction.[7] However, in April 2011, Bruce Campbell stated in an AskMeAnything interview on Reddit.com, "We are remaking Evil Dead. The script is awesome [...] The remake's gonna kick some ass — you have my word."[8]

On July 13, 2011, it was officially announced, via a press release, that Ghost House Pictures would team up with FilmDistrict to produce an Evil Dead remake, with Diablo Cody in the process of revising the script and Fede Alvarez directing.[6] Actor Shiloh Fernandez was cast in the lead male role of David.[9] Bloody Disgusting reported that Lily Collins would play the lead female role of Mia, but on January 24, 2012, she dropped out of the role.[10][11]

On February 3, 2012, it was announced that actress Jane Levy, star of the television series Suburgatory, would replace Collins in the lead female role as Mia.[12] Lou Taylor Pucci, Elizabeth Blackmore, and Jessica Lucas later joined the cast.[13][14]

In January 2013, Alvarez commented on the ambiguity of the film's relationship to the original:

Now, the way I personally like to see Evil Dead (2013), it's as a story that takes place 30 years after The Evil Dead ended. The car is there, the cabin is there (a family bought it and did some work on it more than 20 years ago) and the book has found its way back to the cabin... New kids will encounter it and suffer its wrath. Is Evil Dead a sequel then? Maybe. But the problem with the sequel theory would be that there are too many coincidences between the events on The Evil Dead and the ones on Evil Dead to have happened on a continuous story line [...] But if you believe the Naturom Demonto can force these things to happen... then it could be a sequel... and I do believe in coincidences.[15]

Alvarez, who also has a background in CGI, also confirmed in an interview that the film does not employ CGI (except for touch-ups): "We didn't do any CGI in the movie [...] Everything that you will see is real, which was really demanding. This was a very long shoot, 70 days of shooting at night. There's a reason people use CGI; it's cheaper and faster, I hate that. We researched a lot of magic tricks and illusion tricks."[16]

Sam Raimi's 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 can be seen in an opening scene with David and Mia as they arrive at the cabin. The 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 has appeared in almost all of the movies that Raimi has been involved with over his career.

Release

TriStar Pictures released the film theatrically on April 5, 2013 in the United States.[17] Alvarez tweeted on January 28, 2013 that the film first received an NC-17 rating, which prompted cuts in order to obtain the contractually obligated R-rating.[18] The film has been rated uncut as an 18 by the BBFC for containing strong "bloody violence, gory horror and very strong language".[19] Evil Dead premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX on March 8, 2013.[citation needed] The music for Evil Dead, composed by Roque Baños, was released by La-La Land Records in a 40-minute digital form and a 70-minute physical release, on April 9, 2013.[20] The release of the film in Australia is restricted to five cinemas due to its Australian R18+ rating; one in Sydney, one in Brisbane, one in Melbourne, one in Adelaide, and one in Perth.

Home media

Evil Dead was released on DVD and Blu-ray, on July 16, 2013.[21] The Blu-ray exclusives include commentary from three of the cast, and screenwriters Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues, behind the scenes and a featurette, while the regular DVD will include three other featurettes.[22]

Reception

The film brought in $26 million in its opening weekend[23] and became a box office success, grossing over $54,239,856 in domestic as well as $97,454,981 at worldwide.

Upon release, Evil Dead has received generally positive reviews. The film has since earned a score of 63% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 154 reviews with an average rating of 6.2/10; the consensus states: "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."[24] On Metacritic, the film holds a 58% rating, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[25] Criticism focuses on the characters and some of the story being spoiled by the trailers for the film.

Evan Dickson from Bloody Disgusting reviewed the film at SXSW, and went on to say that "Evil Dead is amazingly gory and fun" and gave the film 4/5 stars.[26] Chris Tilly of IGN gave Evil Dead 9/10, and called the movie a "terrifying, exhilarating and relentlessly entertaining new chapter in the Evil Dead story".[27] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review, calling it a "remake that will win the hearts of many of the original's fans."[28] Independent horror review site HorrorTalk gave the film four stars out of five saying it is "the most unrelenting and bloody horror film to come out of a major studio in a very long time".[29] Emma Simmonds of The List commented, "Evil Dead has ample cheap shocks and few bloodcurdling frights but it builds to something gorily bravura and, if that's your bag, you'll come away satisfied. It's a while before anyone picks up a chainsaw, but boy is it worth it when they do."[30] Matt Singer called the film "an assault on the senses" and "a success, one that out-Evil Deads the original movie with even more gore, puke, blood, and dismembered limbs. It may not be wildly inventive, but it is effective, and plenty faithful to the spirit — and tagline — of the first 'Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror.'"[31]

Richard Roeper rated the film one star out of four, criticizing the film's unoriginality, the characters' lack of intelligence, and the films reliance on gore for what he felt were cheap scares. He concluded his review by saying, "I love horror films that truly shock, scare and provoke. But after 30 years of this stuff, I'm bored to death and sick to death of movies that seem to have one goal: How can we gross out the audience by torturing nearly every major character in the movie?"[32]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipient Result
2013 Golden Trailer Awards[33] Best Horror TV Spot TriStar Pictures and mOcean for "Everything's Fine" Nominated

Sequel

At the SXSW premiere event, Alvarez announced that a sequel is in the works.[34][35] In addition, Sam Raimi confirmed plans to write Evil Dead 4 with his brother; it was later specified that this film would be Army of Darkness 2.[36] At a WonderCon panel in March 2013, Campbell and Alvarez stated that their ultimate plan was for Alvarez's Evil Dead 2 and Raimi's Army of Darkness 2 to be followed by a seventh film which would merge the narratives of Ash and Mia.[37]

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