(To be fair, the former was plenty influenced by the latter.) For fans of the humor and manic energy of the original Evil Dead and The Evil Dead II, however, the experience may be more akin to buying tickets to see one’s favorite band-even though virtually none of the original members remain-only to realize the set list includes none of the hits that convinced you to come in the first place. Still, for those unfamiliar with the original films, this latest Evil Dead serves well enough as a neatly packaged, delightfully repulsive gore fest that owes as much to the recently resurgent “grindhouse aesthetic” and Eli Roth-ified gruesomeness as it does to its source material. Nonetheless, the relative absence of chuckles-and of an actor with the sheer charisma of the original Ash (Bruce Campbell)-takes its toll. That yielded a “Holy dismembered cow!” response that is much tougher to elicit from a modern audience desensitized by a six-pack of Saw, Hostel pairs and the like. So much of the black comedy of the 1981 film stemmed from how over the top the gore-based action was. Overall, this latest iteration of possessed youth behaving badly seems a much more humorless affair than the original, but to an extent that’s unavoidable. By the time the last drops of blood rain have soaked into the ground, only one is left standing. Horror-mainly in the form of jumpy camerawork, overt musical cues and more severing than you can shake a dismembered torso at-ensues. After discovering a nasty-looking book, one of them (Lou Taylor Pucci) ignores explicit warnings (and common sense) and reads aloud a handy little demon-summoning phrase from it. Five friends gather at a remote cabin-in this case to help Mia (Jane Levy) kick a drug habit.
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In Alvarez’s version, the setting, plot (roughly), and a certain 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 are the same. The result is a simpler dish that’ll appeal to a more limited audience than the original even as it makes its investors very, very happy. In the latest addition to one of horror’s most lauded film franchises, director Fede Alvarez serves up a remake that goes heavier on the gore and lighter on the humor.
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Sam Raimi’s original Evil Dead films proved that the right combination of horror, gore, humor and weirdness can lodge itself in the collective consciousness of fans as firmly as an axe in a floorboard (assuming the intended target has rolled out of the way in time).