It isn’t enough now to just throw gory scenes at you, there needs to be more depth than that. There’s a reason why Grown Ups 2 is going to come out and make a ton of money - audiences are dumber.|. Movies are smarter (or can be) and the audience is more prone to knowing what to expect |Editor’s note: I disagree wholeheartedly. But society is far more desensitized to acts of violence and gore than when the original first screened. People have cited to me the lack of character development in the original Evil Dead which I acknowledge. There is just no real development or spark amongst them to pull you in. The two guys are quite insubstantial, one girl is a nurse and offers some use but ended up a bit preachy, while the last girl is just nail fodder - and I mean that in a literal sense rather than a sexual one. Cue a setup for withdrawl and the associated venom that comes with it, presented as a nice mask for the reality of the situation that Mia has become possessed.īut this nice setup leads into a pretty dull and wasted period of inactivity that I think is largely due to poor writing and a uninspired cast (sans Levy). Her friends take her to her parents abandoned cabin to help her detox. So you know the story (and to be fair the film does a nice job of setting up our typical kids in a cabin scenario), the protagonist Mia, played by Jane Levy, is an addict. The audience disbelief when words started to be read from the Necronomicon was audible, but I consider myself to be pretty good at going along for the ride with these sorts of things. It’s a horror movie and you have to suspend certain instincts. I entered the theater to be provoked into a state of unsettled entertainment. I entered this movie with no bias towards it due to what came before. I am an Evil Dead fan (all three previous movies) however I am not beheld to them. Last night upon leaving the screening, the crowd I was with were divided roughly 50/50 as to whether they liked it or felt it another unnecessary remake - no one loved it, that’s for sure. The film is in wide-release currently and David provided a mostly positive take after its SXSW premiere, but I felt an alternate view on it was necessary. What should be written is “Leave this franchise alone.”
“Leave this book alone” is written in blood on a page of the Necronomicon in the 2013 ‘Rebirth’ of the Evil Dead.
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