Budget: $17 million
Directed By: Fede Alvarez
Initially when I heard about a remake back in the day of this being released I was like WHY, just make a new film in the main series.
Especially after seeing Raimi back to form with drag me to hell. (but i don't like the ending to that film) Along with being not to sure about the actors and the director.
It was a loooong time in the making too it was going to be a sequel then it wasn't, then a reboot, then a psuedo reboot. It was finally settled on a total remake.
So Fede Alvarez came out of nowhere and impressed quite well with this film. especially with only a modest budget too. Raimi did oversee things but at this time was still in talks to do other superhero films after the success of his Spiderman films.
This is a total remake taking the story and only changing some base elements from the original, also adding some odd stuff too.
So instead of heading to this deserted cabin for a sexy weekend with girlfriends, the plot now follows a group of friends (and a brother) taking one of their member to the cabin to 'cold turkey' a drug addiction out of her.
Before that though we see the titular cabin a girl has been captured and is taken by cult into the basement, there she is immolated as it turns out she's a demon.
This girl is Mia she has a heroin addiction she's at the cabin a while after this happened, she's with some of her brothers friends. Her brother (David) then turns up with a few more people who 'care' for Mia too, though some are very skeptical due to past attempts at this.
While there Eric one of the friends just like the OG film finds a shotgun, the necronomicon ex mortis in the cellar. The idiot reads aloud the incantation from the book setting the evil lose in the forest, that now stalks them. Just like the original film the cabin members are either taken or hurt until they are taken over by the demonic forces.
This movie however seems to have a dual purpose as to make you wonder if it's all in Mia's head as she's going cold turkey, it does become more evident that yes it is demons but there's still that little thing of what if? you know?
Like in Evil Dead 2 with Ash, Mia is also taken over in this movie herself, the film leads you believe that her brother might be the new 'Ash' but it doesn't go that way. Mia gets snapped out of it and starts to fight the evil back. Again an allegory for her possibly beating back the addiction?
It's thoughtful and I only recently thought about all this, which leads me to the sad thing that this will probably never get a sequel now. Especially with the new Evil Dead project Raimi has placed in the Chin himself hands Bruce Campbell. Now i'm looking forwards to that tentatively as he's only directing I think and it's set in the older ED universe but won't have Ash in it.
But enough on that, so Evil Dead Remake, very strong film a sneaky little easter egg at the end too if you watch past the credits, THN awards this film a strong 4 out of 5 stars.
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