#The evil dead 2013 trailer plus#

Where the filmвЂ™s left wanting is in a sense of humour. You can even hear it in the indecisive score - great when itвЂ™s parping and crashing Г la Bernard Herrmann, baffling when it goes James Horner, too lush and sentimental, more suited to mild fly-fishing drama than a splatter movie. Alvarez borrows enthusiastically, but you sense the voice isnвЂ™t quite fully formed.

#The evil dead 2013 trailer plus#

(Of the cast, poor Lou Taylor Pucci comes off worst, eventually reduced by the FX team to a supersize voodoo doll.)ДЄpart from the dashing demon-cam and the odd visual wink, Alvarez steers clear of aping Raimi, pinching scraps of J-horror (the Dead now do the neck-cricking routine from The Ring) and early Cronenberg (body horror parasites, plus a sick-up to rival BrundleflyвЂ™s drop-vomit). The misdirection keeps you on your toes - the cost is a fuzzier dramatic focus and thinner characters, never more evident than in Elizabeth BlackmoreвЂ™s disposable blonde, a role so throwaway she only comes to life when sheвЂ™s dead. Alvarez sidesteps the issue entirely by declining to side with a clear hero. Bruce CampbellвЂ™s Ash was as much a part of The Evil Dead as the hosepiping gore. Still, thereвЂ™s a giant puttering chainsaw in the room that canвЂ™t be ignored. Or maybe Alvarez just really hates arms.) In terms of visceral impact, the splatty shocks are hardly groundbreaking or (whisper it) hugely frightening, but the multiple goregasm climax effectively puts the originalвЂ™s Plasticine massacre to shame. (This could be a homage to Evil Dead 2вЂ™s Hemingway gag. WeвЂ™ll leave you to discover its razor blade-licking delights for yourself, but weirdly, the film particularly has it in for arms: stabbed, sliced, chopped, bitten. Revealing a splatter movieвЂ™s routines feels a bit mean, like youвЂ™re giving away its jokes (thereвЂ™s a reason visual effects are called вЂgagsвЂ™). Once hell is unleashed, the effect is like driving through a car wash of gore. Shunning CG, the decision to go old school is easily Evil DeadвЂ™s brightest move. From the moment the doomed five arrive, Fede AlvarezвЂ™s eye is on the nail gun. The ambiguity doesnвЂ™t last long: the conceptвЂ™s tossed out into the woods like a flapping red herring. The film even dabbles with the idea that this could be a psychotic episode: one of the group has a family history of schizophrenia, another could be suffering ultraviolent cold turkey.

LogicвЂ™s never been one of The Evil DeadвЂ™s strong suits, but this puts some effort into justifying the groupвЂ™s stay in hellвЂ™s own shed - supported by her brother David (Shiloh Fernadez), Mia (Jane Levy) is on a rehab retreat and her friends wonвЂ™t let her leave until sheвЂ™s screamed herself better.

The scenery hasnвЂ™t changed, the victims have in fact, the group dynamic is sharper than the headless slasher chickens whoвЂ™ve gone on holiday by mistake. Not only is there an eerie sense of dГ©jГ view - the idea here is that AshвЂ™s adventures appear to be just another bloody chapter from The Book Of The Dead (now printed on fire-retardant asbestos). In a pedantic triumph of identikit production design, weвЂ™re back at the same cabin, same cellar, same dreaded tool shed. ItвЂ™s not a sequel, or a reboot, or a reimagining, but an episode. Deadites Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are producing, practically on quality control.Д®vil Dead 2.0 is an odd bod among remakes. This remake of The Evil Dead, one of the last titles of the video era to be reset, is helmed by an untested director and features a semi-name cast but earns more goodwill than most. HollywoodвЂ™s horror recycling project has largely produced an awful lot of androids: technically superior but lifeless doubles. If you said b), you directed I Spit On Your Grave and need to start this again. Pop quiz: did you a) think of the original? Or did you b) think of the remake? If you said a), weвЂ™re not entirely surprised.