Evil Dead is a 2013 American horror film co-written and directed by Fede Alvarez. It is the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series. It is the first not to be directed by Sam Raimi.
The film is the feature debut of Alvarez, whom Raimi selected. It was produced by Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Robert G. Tapert: the writer-director, lead actor, and producer of the original trilogy respectively. The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest festival on March 8, 2013. On March 9, it was announced that a sequel was in development.
An injured and staggering girl is captured in the woods. She awakens tied to a post in a basement, with many people present, including an old woman reading from an ancient book and saying her soul must be saved. The girl's father is about to light her on fire, and she initially pleads for him to save her but then quickly reveals she is possessed. She is then set on fire before her father shoots her in the head.
Some time later, a group of friends are meeting at an old cabin deep in the woods. The group consists of Eric (a school teacher), Olivia (a nurse), Mia (a recovering drug addict), Mia's brother David, and his girlfriend Natalie (a girl from David's car shop). The group has arranged this getaway as Mia's opportunity to become clean after her addiction caused her to overdose to the point of clinical death. Olivia suggests that Mia will attempt to bail out, and they should keep her from leaving, to which they agree.
Upon entering the cabin, Mia complains about a stench of death, to which the rest of the group appear oblivious. After David's dog begins sniffing at a rug in the main room, they discover the door to a cellar. There, they find various animal corpses suspended from the ceiling and wrapped in barbed wire, a burned corpse, and the Naturom Demonto, a book covered in a black trash bag and wrapped in barbed wire.Ignoring repeated warnings scrawled on its pages, Eric ends up reading a passage from the book aloud, which casts a demon that starts haunting Mia. Terrified, she pleads the group to leave, but they refuse as agreed. Mia is chased by the demon into the woods and stumbles upon a demon-possessed tree, where she is raped and the demon inserts a tendril in her body.
The group find Mia and take her back to the cabin where she attempts to warn David, but the group dismisses her believing she is just trying to leave to get drugs. David then finds the dog killed with a hammer, and when he attempts to confront Mia with this, she locks herself up in the bathroom and severely burns her face in the boiling hot shower. David attempts to drive her to a hospital, but a flood has blocked the roads.
Back at the cabin, Mia shows up in the living room with a double-barreled shotgun and shoots her brother in the arm. Mia tells the group in a demonic voice that they will not survive the night before collapsing to the floor. Olivia tries to seize the shotgun, but Mia attacks her, vomiting a blood on Olivia's face. During the struggle, Mia falls into the cellar and Eric locks her in. Shortly after, Olivia falls possessed as well and Eric finds her cutting the skin off the lower half of her face with a piece of glass. Olivia repeatedly stabs Eric, but he finally kills her by smashing her head with a piece from the sink.
While David treats Eric's wounds, Natalie hears Mia call her name from the cellar and checks on her. When Mia is revealed to still be possessed, she ends up biting Natalie in the hand, and vomiting blood into her mouth. Natalie escapes, but the wound in her hand starts spreading up her arm and she becomes possessed. Natalie eventually regains focus and cuts her own arm off with an electric knife.
Eric tries to burn the book, but after his attempt is shown to be futile, he reveals that the book describes a prophecy by which a demon known as the Abomination needs to devour five souls in order to emerge into the world of the living. To achieve this, the Abomination has attached itself to Mia's soul, and the only ways to release her are to burn her, bury her alive, or dismember her. A possessed Natalie attacks David and Eric with a nail gun and later beats Eric with a crowbar before she is killed by David. David resolves to burn the cabin and Mia with it, but is later shown devising another plan.
David enters the cellar with tranquilizers but Mia attacks him. Eric finally saves him, but is stabbed to death in the process. David immobilizes Mia and buries her while she taunts him. After Mia dies, he digs her up and using an improvised defibrillator he revives her, now free from the possession. David goes back into the house for the car keys but he is then attacked by Eric, who has come back to life and is possessed. The mortally wounded David gives Mia the keys, tells her to leave, and locks her out of the house. Eric warns David "He's coming" and David burns down the cabin by shooting a container of gasoline.
Shortly after, the final stage of the prophecy takes place: it begins to rain blood, the Abomination crawls out of the ground and goes after Mia. At some point the Abomination flips the Jeep, pinning Mia's arm under it, which forces her to tear off her left hand. Mia then manages to kill the demon with a chainsaw, and it sinks back into the ground. The blood rain stops as dawn breaks, and Mia wanders away from the ruins. The film concludes with the Naturom Demonto closing on its own, remaining on the ground's surface.
During the end credits, audio is heard from the original film, of Professor Raymond Knowby telling about his discovery of the Naturom Demonto. Then, in a brief post-credits scene, an older Ash Williams recites his iconic line from the original films, "Groovy", as he turns to the audience.
Directed by Fede Alvarez
Produced by
Sam Raimi
Bruce Campbell
Robert G. Tapert
Screenplay by
Fede Alvarez
Rodo Sayagues
Diablo Cody
(uncredited)
Based on The Evil Dead
by Sam Raimi
Starring
Jane Levy
Shiloh Fernandez
Lou Taylor Pucci
Jessica Lucas
Elizabeth Blackmore
Music by Roque Baños
Cinematography Aaron Morton
Editing by Bryan Shaw
Studio
Ghost House Pictures
FilmDistrict
TriStar Pictures
Distributed by TriStar Pictures
Release date(s)
March 8, 2013 (SXSW Film Festival)
April 5, 2013 (United States)
Running time 92 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $17,000,000
Box office $52,273,770
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