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April 8th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Fans of “The Evil Dead” franchise have had plenty to keep them entertained: video games, novels, role-playing games, video games, and comics. So it was inevitable that someone would try to remake the film thirty years later. It was just a question of whether or not the original creators (Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Bruce Campbell) would shepherd its legacy. Good news: director Fede Alvarez has managed to keep the evil alive.
After an establishing scene with an ironic twist, “Evil Dead” hits all the beats: the cabin, the car (Delta 88 ‘Royale’ Oldsmobile), the demonic book (formerly The Necronomicon but listed only as the Naturum De Montum here). In an inversion of the original plot, our female protagonist is Mia (Jane Levy), who is visiting the cabin to detox from her addiction to cocaine. Her friends Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Olivia (Jessica Lucas), brother David (Shiloh Fernandez) and his girlfriend Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore) are all there to support her and, if necessary, keep her there. Which means that, at least for the first half of the movie, the characters’ skepticism over Mia’s freak out are justified.
What ensues is a reinterpretation of the original’s mayhem and gore, complete with angry molesting trees, dismemberment, and copious amounts of bloody vomit. Alvarez manages to take all of the elements from the original and refract them through the cracked lens of an experienced filmmaker. The madcap insanity is muted in favor of intermittent spurts of violence accompanied by the sound of air raid sirens. Although there’s no disgusting scene “Evil Dead” isn’t willing to show on screen, it’s what happens off screen that is so much more effective. The aforementioned book acts as a narrator, using crudely sketched drawings to outline what’s coming – and then Alvarez delivers with a litany of horrifying sounds when the screen goes dark. Occasionally, there’s no sound at all, and that’s just as terrifying.
There is a frequent back-and-forth between David and Eric as to whether or not the events they are witnessing are supernatural. David, the guilt-wrenched brother who avoided his mother’s death as she succumbed to insanity, argues that Mia is infected by some disease. Eric points to the demonic book, demonic possession, and demonic everything else as evidence that something is not right in the cabin. Eventually, even David has to admit that something is seriously wrong with Mia that science can’t explain.
“Evil Dead” prefers to sacrifice logic in favor of horror on more than one occasion. Mia crashes a car in her frenzied attempt to escape, but the missing vehicle is never mentioned. The “rules” of demonic possession are held inviolate, which is odd since they’re laid out by the same book that created the problem in the first place. And Eric becomes a punching bag plot device who keeps rescuing his fellow idiots when he should have succumbed to his injuries.
Fans looking for Raimi’s trademark slapstick will be disappointed – that didn’t show up until “Evil Dead II.” But for those of us who can remember the ickiness of the original, this incarnation more than lives up to its predecessor. Stay to the end of the credits — you won’t be disappointed!
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