Evil Dead

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Evil Dead

R

2013

1h 11m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Mia (Jane Levy), a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend, Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore) and their friends Olivia (Jessica Lucas) and Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

Critics Consensus

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.

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Monica Castillo

Bitch Media

05/10/2016

The current reboot feels uncreative. Watching the new film just made me miss Bruce Campbell's chin and shots of Raimi running insane through the woods.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

04/19/2013

3/5

Using the very latest Cern-tested atom interferometry, we can reveal that Evil Dead is precisely, exactly - in the coldest atomic terms -the film that you were expecting.

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

04/19/2013

2/5

Happy days for those who love this sort of thing. But Raimi's effort, perhaps because we hadn't seen the plot before, was infinitely more scary.

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Bryce Hanson

Horror Movie Talk

Aug 11

8/10

While there were some moments that were very disturbing, I thought it was artfully done and didn’t ever cross the line into tasteless or exploitative.

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Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana

Ghouls Magazine

07/09/2024

5/5

Fede Álvarez’s Evil Dead, while not entirely following the Evil Dead traditions the cult classic is famous for, creates a further sprawl into the Raimi-verse, bringing the world of the Deadites firmly into modern day.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

09/20/2023

4/5

Takes the bones of the core concept, then remixes and reimagines them in ways that honor the spirit of the source material without trying to replicate it. Without Bruce Campbell's charm, this might be the best we could get out of an Evil Dead revival.

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Jonatan

02/26/2025

This movie is bananas! Gory , nasty, brutal, and unrelenting. Amazing practical effects and kills! People complain cause the tone is different but this is its own thing! Must watxh.

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Haytham O

@UtahOcean Apr 2

Aside from some weird dialogue and some obvious mistakes by some stupid humans, this was a golden watch. Sure, they were moments where you would go (as with any horror movie) "don’t go in there!" Or "don’t do that!" but you can often see and understand that it came from a place of curiosity and not necessarily stupidity. Definitely arrogance though, because >people<. The movie carries itself really well I think, in the buildup of events happens in a good, linear fashion. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the core was also excellent. It was raw and disgusting, as you would expect from this specific franchise, but not so much that it’s over the top. It’s absolutely horrifying though. Overall, I think it was an interesting and noteworthy experience. Absolutely worthy of the franchise. Absolutely worth a watch for any horror fan.

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Marco C

@Marcovarrub Mar 13

terrible boring film, it tries so hard to accomplish so little, is easily forgivable, it can't touch the originals, just it does not know what evil dead is, it just tried to do a gory film that is not funny nor scary, this is just a waste of your time.

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Musa A

@doodleflame Mar 10

Awesome, gritty horror movie that has some of the goriest scenes you'll ever see! You'll be watching through your fingers and yelling at the screen, it's such a painful experience (in a good way)

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Daniel L

@RT24087858 Mar 3

Ok but not amazing. Entertaining for a low budget possession movie. More gory and less corny when compared to the original. More of a pure horror flick than a horror comedy.

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Steven F.

@SteveGotScored Feb 16

Most definitely a great and gritty remake!

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Synopsis

Mia (Jane Levy), a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend, Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore) and their friends Olivia (Jessica Lucas) and Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

Director: Fede Alvarez
Producer: Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell
Screenwriter: Rodo Sayagues Mendez
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Production Co: Ghost House Pictures
Rating: R (Some Sexual Content|Language|Strong Bloody Violence/Gore)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 5, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 16, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $54.2M
Runtime: 1h 11m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS

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