Evil Dead (2013)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 157
Fresh: 98 | Rotten: 59
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.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 14
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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In the much anticipated remake of the 1981 cult-hit horror film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.
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Jane Levy
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Liz Blackmore
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Phoenix Connolly
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Randal Wilson
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Rupert Degas
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All Critics (157) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (98) | Rotten (59)
Despite much old-school splatter, it's seldom frightening and oddly unfunny.
Top CriticAn effectively relentless gore-fest.
Five years from now, will you want to watch this bloody $14 million extravaganza or Raimi's shoestring original, which was Amateur Hour elevated to pop art? Evil Dead just bleeds money.
A stylish and worthy homage: inventive even as it is derivative, never quite jokey but never taking itself too seriously, and clocking in at an entirely appropriate 91 minutes. Any longer would be unmerciful; any shorter, ungenerous.
Though it never channels the raw DIY energy of the original Evil Dead series -- what big-budget version could? -- this polished, clever remake remains true to the spirit of the original, which was at once viscerally terrifying and weirdly lighthearted.
A gore fest that's just effective enough to whet fans' appetite for a sequel, even as it kills everyone else's appetite for dinner.
Alvarez seems to know where to pay tribute to the original... but he also knows where to depart... Overall, his new movie packs a punch.
... not for people prone to nightmares. It's highly effective as causing involuntary chills and hand movements (as in, up to eyes to block the bloody chaos onscreen). ... a cut above just about any other modern horror/slasher remake
If Hollywood is having trouble with deciding who its 'war and terror' enemies are, that's nothing compared with its crisis in horror.
All the requisite blood and gits but not much else to offer by way of entertainment.
The result is something less than the sum of its parts; in other words, the diametric opposite of that beloved original.
There's more slickness than imagination on display.
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.
Remaking an iconic classic is dangerous business, even if the original filmmakers are on board as producers, but at least Uruguayan writer-director Alvarez has a few clever ideas up his sleeve.
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.
This could easily have been the best demon possession film released in decades. Instead it is just a very effective, still-terrifying, evil retread.
There's no suspense, and it isn't scary.
The characters are forgettable but the horror they suffer lingers in the memory, for good or ill.
A decent, gory horror treat for those who've never watched an Evil Dead movie - while at the same time exhibiting discreet respect for the 1980s incarnations, with plenty of low-key nods to the original for fans.
A full-bloodedly grisly and macabre film that zaps over a few scares.
Anonymous, forgettable and doesn't hold a candle to the brilliant original.
I was left clamping my hand to my open jaw, not so much in terror, more in shocked hilarity at how grand the guignol was willing to go.
Well made and delivers buckets of the red stuff, but it's hampered by poorly developed characters, a lack of humour and a tendency to substitute gore for actual scares.
Sam Raimi's horror classic gets a terrifying and intense rebirth for the 21st century.
An undemandingly fun and instantly forgettable update that provides the required amounts of blood, gore and demonic possession, although no real scares or re-invention.
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| Remake or Original | 23 hours ago | 17 |
| I've gone to long without saying it... | 10 days ago | 13 |
| PG-13 Drag Me To Hell > R Evil Dead 2013 | 13 days ago | 26 |
| I'm relieved... | 14 days ago | 4 |
| All right, I admit it. | 15 days ago | 13 |
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