Fresh
An effectively relentless gore-fest.
Bruce Diones, New Yorker
Evil Dead
The most terrifying film you will ever experience.
2013 · 1h 31m · R
Horror
Directed by
Fede Álvarez
Overview
Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric 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 and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Despite much old-school splatter, it's seldom frightening and oddly unfunny.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Rotten
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.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
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.
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Fresh
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.
Dana Stevens, Slate
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