But Bruce Campbell saying "Groovy" after the credits really doesn't do it for me. This started with so much promise, but satisfied very little of it. It ends as an exercise to see how much red paint they can splatter. Even the return of Jane Levy can't save it. It's all screams, darkness, blood splashing. Then the 3rd act gets going, and it devolves more and more into a slasher-porn movie. The more interesting character is the nerdy sidekick played by Lou Taylor Pucci.
He can't hold the screen as well as Bruce Campbell. They run across a recording in their cabin that releases demons around their cabin. If deals with five college friends who are in the woods for a weekend away. The Evil Dead is a 1981 horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, and Betsy Baker. Sadly, he's just a functional Latino hunk. The Evil Dead (1981) The Introduction of Ash. Shiloh Fernandez takes more center stage. Everything is going well.Ībout midway, Jane Levy's character is sidelined. The action is good fun classic horror moments. There is some allusion to a bigger commentary on drug rehabilitation. I wish he developed the addiction story a lot more. They find the Book of the Dead and all hell breaks loose.įede Alvarez wrote/directed this remake of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981). Mia is an addict trying to quit cold turkey. Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10 remake starts wellįriends Mia (Jane Levy), David (Shiloh Fernandez), Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci), Olivia (Jessica Lucas), and Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore) go to an isolated cabin. Is this as good as the original? No, it lacks the genuine fright-factor even if the ickiness is there.but at the same time it won't disappoint modern horror fans with its blend of demonic possession and outrageous violence. Production values are more than adequate and the cast are pretty good, too.
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This is one of the most extremely vicious and nasty films I've seen in a long time, in which the various set-pieces of gore are difficult to watch let's just say that the chainsaw stuff hinted at back in the 1980s is shown in full force here. The same suspense is there, the pulse-pounding question of who's going to be affected next by the curse, while at the same time it's given some Hollywood slickness to offset the original's grubby, zero-budget charm.Īnd, perhaps most surprisingly of all, the gore quota has been ramped up considerably. It's a film made very much in the spirit of the first film, and that makes it pretty good for a remake.
ELLEN SANDWEISS EVIL DEAD 2013 MOVIE
This remake thankfully changes things around a bit story-wise, so that even the many fans of the original movie will find themselves guessing as to what's about to happen next.
Everything about it gelled, and it remains effective to this day, despite the cheesiness of the low-budget effects work. While EVIL DEAD 2 was the best of the three films, for me, a pitch-perfect comedy/horror, and ARMY OF DARKNESS was a funny, cheesy comedy, the first film was a gruelling terror flick made on a teensy budget.and it worked. I have to say, starting out, that Sam Raimi's original EVIL DEAD trilogy has been a favourite of mine ever since I saw it as a teenager. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Pretty good for a remake