Evil Dead [Blu-ray] [Region B]

Brilliant film

My heart sank when I heard that Evil Dead was being re-made for a 'modern' audience ...... however, after viewing the film (several times since 2013) I can say that I will highly recommend it. The practical special effects are excellent, acting is very good, the reason for being at the cabin is believable and the Evil Dead lore has been adhered to faithfully by a director who genuinely cares about the source material. I recently watched this with my daughter after watching Evil Dead 2 and Evil Dead 3 and she thought this was by far the best film. I probably have to agree since it is certainly the most competent, brutal and unflinching version of Evil Dead (although the recent Evil Dead Rise comes close). The Evil Dead series of videos is a very strong franchise and this film is certainly paying homage to the original 2 films while attracting a while new generation of horror film lovers to check it out - I highly recommend a viewing to anyone who likes proper horror films.

Evil Dead is probably one of the goriest films I've ever seen. I can only assume that the film makers supplied several swimming pools filled with fake blood...because there is so much of it. Blood on the floor, blood on clothes, blood on faces, raining blood, blood on...wait a minute, raining blood!? Yes, it goes to that extreme. So Evil Dead is a remake of the original of the same name, we follow a group of teens in a cabin in a remote location who try to help their friend to stop taking drugs. They find the book of the dead and what ensues is a heck load of blood and gore! Oh, and all of the following: tree rape, slicing tongue and snogging someone, car crushing a girl's hand and her pulling it out...and my favourite, absolutely decimating someone with a chainsaw. I'm talking ripped to shreds! Total annihilation! Ohhhh so satisfying to watch...in a sick weird way. As you can probably tell, I enjoyed the hell out of this and have done for several viewings. It knows exactly what it is, a fun gory flick that does not take itself too seriously. Yes the characters are bland and expendable and yes the acting is mediocre, except Jane Levy who was actually really good. But you didn't watch this for an Oscar nominated performance. No no no you wanted to see a girl slice her mouth open with a shard of glass! I mean the enhanced use of makeup, prosthetics, costumes etc. just made the experience all the more enjoyable and authentic. I appreciated the dark comedic undertone, particularly from the possessed Mia, that definitely harked back to the original. Director Fede Alvarez did a good job, lots of creepy camerawork and I adored the opening bird's eye view shot where the teenagers are driving along the road. His usage of visual exposition, such as flashbacks to the opening scene, were pointless and unfortunately spoon fed us everything. You'll guess the whole plot in the first 10 minutes, which is its downfall. However, I wanted to see gore and it delivered...massively. My advice: don't read a book made of skin and wrapped in barbed wire. Just don't.

Excellent a from m/magpie

If you are unfamiliar with the Evil Dead films then this might be something you appreciate more. If you are familiar, and are a gore-hound, then the bloodthirsty repetition on offer here won't be off-putting. To anyone else this is an entertaining, albeit stupid film, that does absolutely nothing new with the story, action or scares. It isn't a continuation of the previous films, and seems to be a full remake, so some of the premise is contradictory despite most of the details being the same. A group of people who are a mixture of childhood friends, and a brother and sister, go to a cabin in the woods owned by their late mother and attempt to help the sister quit her drug addiction. Once there they find a trapdoor coated in blood that leads down to a basement with a whole load of dead cats strung up from the ceiling, and a book made of human flesh that was sealed up with barb-wire. Now, since none of these discoveries leads to them getting the heck out of there, well, it starts off pretty stupid. To make matters worse: despite the book being made of human flesh, and inside is illustrated with horrific images and warnings of "don't read the book!", well, you know, some donkey reads the book and unleashes evil. After that....new day, new characters, same old shee-yit, as one by one they get possessed and commits acts of self-mutilation or murder. You see someone using a nail-gun for some "home improvement" on this run-down shack, that still bizarrely has working electricity and running water despite nobody living there for years or paying the bills, and you know that's going to be used later on for acts of violence. You see someone cutting up some meat with an electric carving knife and you know that that too will be used for self-mutilation and / or acts of violence. They even include a chainsaw for old times sake. It's gory, probably suspenseful for horror newbies and generally watchable. For anyone who isn't a newbie and was hoping for this to be scary or at least moving the franchise forward....nope! For the old fans there's nothing new here and 99% of it is overly familiar despite seemingly not being a continuation of the originals. For anyone else it just isn't scary at all and trades in blood and gore. It was alright, but then I watched it as part of a free trial and so didn't pay for it. If I had, well, I wouldn't want to pay too much to watch this, as it's a bit better than average but miles away from being great.

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One of my favourite movies arrived in perfect condition!

Twenty years. That’s how long I’ve been waiting for this movie. Twenty years! Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Sam Raimi and the legend himself, Bruce Campbell are pretty much responsible for my love of horror movies in general, but also for my fascination with “bad” horror as well, so when I heard that someone had finally come along and convinced Sam and Bruce to do another Evil Dead movie I just about blew my own head off, Scanners style, in excitement. To top it off not only was it NOT going to be a remake of the original film, but was instead going to be a continuation of the story? Oh baby, that was just all sorts of groovy in my book. The movie pays homage to the original films without letting itself become bogged down by them. There are several scenes that I found noteworthy just because I was a huge fan of the original movies, but if you weren’t a fan it didn’t really have an effect on your viewing of the movie. The Olds in the back, the chains on the cellar door, the shotgun and then later the chainsaw, and finally the red dress that David puts Mia in that is a duplicate of the dress Sheila is wearing while a Deadite in the Army of Darkness. But, that’s enough about that. The writing was impeccable, the film is full of great one liners (“David. I did something terrible.”) that, while not as funny as the first three films, are still entirely memorable and enjoyable in their own right. There is something I had blocked out, however, and that was the gore. This movie does cross over the line into torture porn through most of the second half of the movie, to the point that I remember being uncomfortable watching it in theaters, and even watching it again at home I had to look away a couple times (the needle under the eye? I wear contacts! That hurts the hell out of me!) and thus had to rewind to watch the scene again to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Really, the movie isn’t incredibly scary, but it is smart and well done and the surprise scares and great makeup effects make this an instant classic! Just… you know… don’t watch it if you’re queasy or have a hard time seeing blood. Lots of blood. Pulling nails out of hands and legs, needles out of eyes, razor blades cutting tongues in half, hammer to the dog’s head kind of blood. And the rain. Lets not forget about the rain. So much blood. Want to see my full review? [...]

Disk simply did not work, I've tried everything.

Great movie. Quick delivery.