Evil Dead (2013 film)

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Evil Dead
EvilDead2013Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFede Álvarez
Produced by
Screenplay by
  • Fede Álvarez
  • Rodo Sayagues
Based onThe Evil Dead
by Sam Raimi
Starring
Music byRoque Baños
CinematographyAaron Morton
Edited byBryan Shaw
Production
company
Distributed byTriStar Pictures
Release date
  • March 8, 2013 (2013-03-08) (SXSW)
  • April 5, 2013 (2013-04-05) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$17 million[2]
Box office$97.5 million[2]

Evil Dead is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by Fede Alvarez in his directorial debut, written by Rodo Sayagues and Álvarez and produced by Robert Tapert, Sam Raimi, and Bruce Campbell. The film was shot in New Zealand outside of Auckland, lasting about a month.[3] The fourth installment in the Evil Dead franchise, it serves as a continuation of the original 1981 film.

The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest festival on March 8, 2013 and was released in the United States on April 5, 2013. It grossed $97 million worldwide.

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 and the second maze for Universal Orlando Resort's annual Halloween Horror Nights 2013 event.

Plot[edit]

David and his girlfriend Natalie arrive at a cabin in the woods, where the pair meet up with his younger sister Mia and his friends Eric and Olivia. The group plans to stay in the cabin while Mia overcomes her addiction to heroin. The group discover the cellar, littered with rotting animal corpses, a shotgun, and a book called the Naturom Demonto.

Eric, despite written warnings, reads aloud an incantation and awakens a malevolent force. Mia begins seeing a bloody girl in the woods, and begs the group to leave because she is scared. They refuse, believing that she is simply experiencing the effects of withdrawal. Mia steals the car keys and drives away from the cabin. As Mia drives her way out, she then sees a demon girl on the road, startling her, causing her to pull over and crash into a swamp. Emerging from the mud water, the demon chases Mia through the woods. Mia stumbles into a circular opening to a thorn bush and becomes entangled by possessed vines. As Mia struggles to detangle, she then sees an Abomination version of herself. A thorny vine comes out of its mouth and rapes Mia, crawling its way up Mia's leg into her vagina, successfully infecting her with the possession. David and Olivia find Mia and take her back to the cabin.

Later, David finds his murdered dog along with a bloodied hammer, and goes to confront Mia, who is in the shower. In the bathroom, he sees her scalding herself in a heated shower. David tries to drive her to a hospital, but heavy rains flood the only road back. Meanwhile, Eric becomes more and more convinced that the book is the cause of all that.

That night, the possessed Mia comes into the living room with a shotgun and shoots David in the arm as a strong wind blows through the cabin, Mia warns the others that they are all going to die tonight, after which she passes out. David instructs Olivia to get the gun away from Mia, but before she can, Mia wakes up and overpowers her, then projectile vomits blood all over her face. Olivia manages to shove Mia off, sending her tumbling down into the cellar where she is locked in by Eric. Olivia goes to the bathroom to wash the blood off her face and get a sedative for Mia, but is terrified when she sees her own disfigured reflection in the mirror. Olivia tries to rush back to the others, but becomes frozen and possessed before she could get out of the room. Hearing a door slam, Eric goes to the room and finds her cutting into her cheek with a mirror shard behind the shower curtain. Olivia attacks and stabs Eric in the chest, who grabs a broken piece of the sink and bludgeons her to death. In the shed, David nurses Eric's wounds, and Eric confides that he believes that when he read the book, it released "something evil". Meanwhile, Mia lures Natalie into the cellar, where she bites her hand. Natalie tries to attack Mia with a box cutter, but Mia takes it from her and uses the blade to split her own tongue in half, before planting a bloodied kiss on Natalie's mouth. David opens the trapdoor, interrupting the assault and allowing Natalie to escape. After the demon tells him that Mia no longer exists, he chains it up and locks the cellar door.

Eric explains to David that, according to the Naturom Demonto, the Taker of Souls must claim five souls in order to unleash the Abomination. In the kitchen, while cleaning the bite wound, Natalie becomes convinced that her arm is infected and amputates it with an electric knife. David does his best to patch up her wounded arm, while Eric continues to explain that Mia must be "purified" either by live burial, bodily dismemberment, or burning. As they debate, the possessed Natalie attacks the pair with a nail gun, but David manages to shoot off her remaining arm with the shotgun, Natalie turns back to normal, but collapses into David's arms and bleeds to death.

Eric convinces David to kill Mia. David incinerates Olivia’s corpse, dismembers Natalie’s body, and plans to burn down the cabin with Mia in it. However, as Mia starts singing a song from their childhood, he has a change of mind and decides to bury her instead. He digs a grave, then enters the cellar to subdue Mia, who attempts to drown him. Eric intervenes and clubs Mia with a hammer, but not before being fatally stabbed and succumbing to his wounds. David proceeds to sedate and bury Mia, unearthing and defibrillating her afterwards, which causes the demon to be exorcized and heals her. The siblings reconcile. As David enters the cabin to retrieve the car keys, a possessed Eric's corpse stabs him in the neck with barb wire cutters. Mia, who escaped her buried hole but is now back to normal from being healed, comes in and sees David with the wound in his neck. As Mia tries to help David, David tells Mia to go without him, which she refuses. When Mia is distracted and traumatized by seeing the possessed corpse of Eric, David is able to lock Mia outside to safety himself and shoot a gasoline can inside, destroying Eric's body and sacrificing himself.

As Mia tearfully watches the cabin burn down with an empty amulet in her hand a drop of blood falls on it and blood begins to rain from the sky. Since five souls have been claimed, the Abomination arises only to go after Mia. Mia attempts to flee in a car but the Abomination bursts through the window, stopping her. Mia rushes into the shed through a hole underneath it and grabs a chainsaw to fight back, putting chainsaw oil in it to turn it on. When the Abomination throws the car at Mia as an attempt to crush her, Mia is able to dodge the car but gets her hand gets stuck and slammed under an open car window. Mia tears off her hand free and grabs the chainsaw. Mia then halves the Abomination with a chainsaw. Its corpse sinks into the ground and the blood-rain stops. Mia escapes into the woods and wanders off into the distance. Unknown to her, the Naturom Demonto is still intact.

In a post-credits scene, a silhouetted Ash Williams says "Groovy" and looks at the camera before it cuts to black.

Alternate ending[edit]

After defeating the Abomination, Mia attempts to walk her way home, but ends up collapsing in exhaustion on the road from all the wounds, stopping a man who drives by. The man takes her to his truck to drive her to the hospital. As the camera zooms into Mia in her sleep, she awakes suspiciously.

Cast[edit]

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 post-credit cameo appearance.

The initial letters of the five main characters' names (David, Eric, Mia, Olivia, Natalie) form an acrostic spelling out DEMON.[4]

Production[edit]

Fede Álvarez 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.[5] The film was produced by Raimi, Campbell, and Robert G. Tapert, who are the producers of the original trilogy.[citation needed]

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.[6] 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."[7] The film was officially announced that July.[5]

Actor Shiloh Fernandez was cast in the lead male role of David.[8] Initially Lily Collins was scheduled to play the lead female role of Mia, but dropped out in January 2012,.[9][10] with Jane Levy replacing her the next month.[11] Lou Taylor Pucci, Elizabeth Blackmore, and Jessica Lucas later joined the cast.[12][13]

In November 2018, Álvarez confirmed the film's relationship to the original:

It continues the first one. The coincidences on events between the first film and mine are not coincidences, but more like dark fate created by the evil book. (Ash [sic] car is still there rusting away.)[14]

Álvarez, 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."[15]

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.[citation needed]

Release[edit]

TriStar Pictures released the film theatrically on April 5, 2013, in the United States,[16] with Sony Pictures handling other markets. Fede Álvarez 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.[17] The film has been rated uncut as an 18 by the BBFC for containing strong "bloody violence, gory horror and very strong language".[18] StudioCanal handled the release of Evil Dead in the United Kingdom.[18]

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.[19]

Home media[edit]

Evil Dead was released on DVD and Blu-ray, on July 16, 2013.[20] The Blu-ray exclusives include commentary from three of the cast, and screenwriters Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues, behind the scenes and a featurette, while the regular DVD includes three other featurettes.[21]

Extended cut[edit]

An extended version, that has yet to be released, featuring an alternative ending and various other deleted clips and dialogue, some of which were featured in the original trailer but subsequently removed from the theatrical version, was aired in the UK, on January 25, 2015.[citation needed]

No one has yet confirmed whether this was an intentional debut for the anticipated "extended cut", which fans of the film have asked about since the theatrical release, or whether StudioCanal UK had inadvertently supplied Channel 4 with the wrong copy of the film.[citation needed]

Álvarez has confirmed on Twitter, that the version aired was not the extended cut.[citation needed]

Channel 4 has subsequently confirmed that the wrong copy of the film was supplied to them and that they have sent it back. They added that they have no other information on the version which aired and since the "extended/incorrect" version has been returned to StudioCanal UK they would not be airing it again.[citation needed] However, the extended version still airs on Film4. It was aired again on 13 February 2016, and yet again, on the night of 14 June 2016.

On 10 October 2018, Sony Pictures announced the release of the Unrated Cut on Blu Ray Disc in a two-disc combo pack with the theatrical version. The release date has been set for 23 October 2018.

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

The film grossed $25.8 million in its opening weekend, finishing first at the box office.[22] It went on to gross $54.2 million domestically and $43.3 million internationally, for a worldwide take of $97.5 million, against its $17 million budget, making it a box office success.[2]

Critical response[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 61% based on 187 reviews, and an average rating of 6.1/10. 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."[23] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100 based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.[25]

Evan Dickson from Bloody Disgusting reviewed the film at SXSW and went on to say, "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 film's 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[edit]

Year Award Category Recipient Result
2013 Golden Trailer Awards[33] Best Horror TV Spot TriStar Pictures and mOcean for "Everything's Fine" Nominated
Fright Meter Award Best Makeup Evil Dead Won
Best Special Effects Evil Dead Won
Best Ensemble Cast Cast of Evil Dead Nominated
Best Horror Movie Evil Dead Nominated
Best Director Fede Álvarez Nominated
Best Actress Jane Levy Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Lou Taylor Pucci Nominated
Best Score Roque Baños Nominated
Best Editing Bryan Shaw Nominated
Golden Schmoes Award Best Horror Movie of the Year Evil Dead Runner-up
International Film Music Critics Award Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film Roque Baños Won
Film Music Composition of the Year Roque Baños for the composition track "Abominations Rising" Won
Film Score of the Year Roque Baños Nominated
IGN Summer Movie Award Best Horror Movie Evil Dead Nominated
Key Art Award Best Audio/Visual Technique Screen Gems & mOcean for the trailer "Filthy" Nominated
2014 Empire Award Best Horror Evil Dead Nominated
Fangoria Chainsaw Award Best Makeup/Creature FX Roger Murray
Jane O'Kane 		Won
Best Wide-Release Film Fede Álvarez Runner-up
Best Supporting Actor Lou Taylor Pucci Runner-up
Worst Film Evil Dead 3rd place
Saturn Award Best Make-Up Patrick Baxter
Jane O'Kane
Roger Murray 		Nominated

Possible sequel[edit]

At the SXSW premiere, Álvarez announced that a sequel was 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 Álvarez stated that their ultimate plan was for Álvarez'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] On October 30, 2013, co-writer Sayagues confirmed to DeadHollywood that he and Álvarez would not return for the sequel.[38] That same month, Álvarez took to his Twitter that the rumor was not true.[39][40]

In November 2018 Fede announced that “This is just concepts for the moment. I have nothing to announce official. We have a scenario for Don’t Breathe 2 this is the true difference. There is no script for Evil Dead 2, but we have written a for Don’t Breathe 2. “ he also said that “When I tweeted, it was because I was interested in what people preferred to see. I was in the process of discussing what people wanted to see. Unfortunately, this is Evil Dead 2, which won out. I would have liked this to be Don’t Breathe 2, because this is one of my own creations. Obviously, the Evil Dead has a much wider audience. “[41]

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