evil Dead

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Movie
German title evil Dead
Original title evil Dead
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length Edited: 87 minutes
Uncut: 91 minutes
Extended version: 96 minutes
Age rating FSK SPIO / JK: no serious risk to young people (indicated)

FSK 18 (shortened)

FSK unchecked (extended version)
Rod
Director Fede Alvarez
script Fede Alvarez
Rodo Sayagues
production Sam Raimi
Bruce Campbell
Rob Tapert
music Roque Baños
camera Aaron Morton
cut Bryan Shaw
occupation

Evil Dead ( German  Böser Toter , Böse Tote or Böses Totes ) is an American horror film from 2013. The film refers to Tanz der Teufel (originally The Evil Dead ) from 1981, in which one of the current producers, Bruce Campbell , who starred. Evil Dead had its world premiere on March 9, 2013 at the SXSW Festival and opened in German cinemas on May 16, 2013.

action

A young girl, injured, flees from two men in a forest; however, they manage to seize it. When she comes to, she is tied up in a cellar full of people. Her father shows up and pours gasoline over her. She tries to convince her father to untie her and bring her home. When the father does not respond, it becomes apparent that she is possessed by a demon; her father sets her on fire and kills her with a headshot.

A few years later, five friends David, Eric, Mia, Olivia and Natalie drive to a cabin in the woods to help Mia with her drug withdrawal. Since there is a smell of decay in the hut, the two boys David and Eric set out to find the source of the stench. You will find it in the basement: after a spiritualistic ritual many years ago, dozens of decayed cats hang on the ceiling of the basement. You will also find a mysterious book labeled "Naturom Demonto", the Book of the Dead (see Necronomicon ). Eric takes the book with him and later reads some parts of it out loud. With it he conjures a demon who appears in the forest around the hut.

Mia steals the car keys and escapes by car to escape rehab. When she apparently sees a young woman on the street, she comes off the road and drives into a lake. Mia can barely get out of the car, but the demon pursues her until she falls into a pit and becomes tangled in the branches. A tendril of thorns comes out of the demon's mouth and takes possession of it by penetrating Mia. She is found by her friends and brought back to the hut. There Mia first kills Eric's dog and then takes a boiling hot shower; Her brother David finds her marked by severe scalds. He tries to take her to a hospital, but due to heavy rain, the road at a flooded river crossing is not passable.

Back in the hut, Mia is put to bed; her urge to leave the hut is misunderstood as an escape from withdrawal. Shortly afterwards, she appears in the living room with a shotgun and shoots her brother in the arm. She screams all over the room and explains in a demonic voice that no one will survive this night.

Olivia tries to numb Mia with a tranquilizer, but fails to do so. Mia vomits on her and so the demon takes possession of her. Her friends lock Mia in the basement. When Olivia tries to clean up Mia's vomit, the mirror in the bathroom breaks and she mutates. Eric wants to check on Olivia and finds her in the bathroom where she is about to cut her face with a piece of glass. She attacks Eric, who barely kills her with a shard from the toilet bowl.

Natalie later goes to the basement to see how Mia is doing, but Natalie is locked up by her. After she was bitten in the hand by Mia and infected with her blood, David frees her. Shortly thereafter, Natalie washes her hand from Mia's blood, but the demon has already infected her entire arm. Natalie cuts off her arm with an electric meat knife so that the demon cannot completely take possession of her. The demon takes it over anyway. After an argument between Eric and David, the possessed Natalie comes in and attacks them both with a nail gun. Natalie hits Eric with multiple nails, but David stops her. When David tries with difficulty to take the shotgun to kill Natalie, it comes out from behind David and beats him up with a crowbar. Then Eric shoots at her with a few nails from the pistol. Controlled by the demon, she now approaches Eric and hits him on the fingers with the crowbar. Before she could deliver her final blow, David kills her with a shotgun.

After attempts to burn the Book of the Dead fail, David and Eric search it for a way to free Mia from the demon. You read in the book that the demon must devour five souls in order to achieve his goal, the liberation of an even more powerful demon from hell. On Eric's instructions to kill Mia, David decides to bury his sister alive and use it to destroy the demon. To be able to bury Mia, he has to calm her down with an anesthetic. Unexpectedly, Mia shows up and tries to kill her brother, but Eric hits her and knocks her out. While doing this, he is killed by Mia. While David buries the unconscious Mia, she wakes up and tries to stop her brother by confronting him with his past. But he keeps digging. When Mia is completely covered with earth, the spook seems to be over and David digs Mia up again. After a few attempts at resuscitation, David finally gives up and wants to leave when Mia comes to.

David wants to go back to the hut and is attacked with a knife by the now possessed Eric. David advises Mia to flee as soon as possible and gives her the car keys that were still in the hut, but she wants to stay with him. After a fight, he lights the gasoline and burns the hut down with himself and Eric. Eric predicts the atrocity will now appear.

Mia is standing outside the hut when it starts to rain blood from the sky. When she holds up her hand, the demon freed from Hell reaches for her. As a new reincarnation, he crawls out of the earth in front of the hut in the form of a woman and is after Mia. Mia flees in Eric's jeep to seek protection from the attacking demon. However, when she tries to drive off, she is caught by the demon and caught. She can tear herself away and flees from him to the tool shed, where she first finds Eric's dead dog and finally a chainsaw , which, however, does not start due to a lack of petrol. The demon tries to attack her on her escape with a knife through the wall, she only escapes the knife by a hair's breadth and can save herself through a hole in the wall with the last of her strength. She is hiding under the jeep. She finally manages to refuel and start the chainsaw. Still lying under the jeep, Mia cuts off both legs of the demon who has approached the car. Mia tries to save herself, but the demon, who is now crawling on the ground, knocks the jeep over, whereby Mia's left hand is trapped under the car. With all her last strength, she can tear off her shattered hand from the rest of the arm. The demon crawls up to Mia and hisses at her, he wants to feast on her soul. In the following finale, Mia kills the demon by holding the running chainsaw right in his face and cutting him lengthways. The lifeless demon sinks back into the earth and the sun shines. Mia's fate remains uncertain.

At the end of the credits, Mia can be seen collapsing on a street. A jeep stops and an elderly man helps her. Mia is asleep in the back seat of the jeep. The last scene is a close-up of her sleeping face. Suddenly she opens her eyes. However, these are normally colored, not orange, as when the demon has taken possession.

During the end credits, Professor Raymond Knowby's tape recording from Dance of the Devils will be played, in which he talks about his discovery of the Naturom Demonto . Bruce Campbell has a very brief cameo at the end of the credits as Ash, the main character from Dance of the Devils , who says “Groovy!” And then suddenly looks into the camera.

production

Directed by Fede Alvarez , the screenplay is by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues , but was edited by Juno writer Diablo Cody .

Alvarez, who also has experience with CGI , confirmed in an interview that no CGI was used in the film, with the exception of digital post-production.

reception

Audience numbers

In 2013, 647,851 visitors were counted at the German box office nationwide, making the film 48th place among the most visited films of the year.

Reviews

Evil Dead received 62% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes , which scored 197 reviews. The consensus summarized is: " Evil Dead may lack the absurd humor of the original, but the new film compensates with brutal terror, bloody shocks and hilarious, nasty violence."

Andreas Busche wrote in Die Zeit : “The remake of" Evil Dead "was initially met with skepticism among fans. But the directorial debutant Fede Alvarez has modernized the horror cult film congenially. [...] Evil Dead , with its realistic violence, meets all the requirements of modern horror films, but dispenses with boring digital special effects. Alvarez [...] understood that nothing beats the haptics of transience in the good old horror film. "

Christoph Petersen said in his review of film releases : “Although the highlights of low-budget horror seemed almost completely gone, Fede Alvarez's debut feature film 'Evil Dead' is now the remake of a cult classic in which everything is done right: In In his new edition of Sam Raimi's 'Tanz der Teufel', Alvarez cleverly combines allusions to the original with his own, much less obviously ironic, narrative tone. […] In 30 years 'time, this remake could enjoy a similar reputation as a cult classic as Sam Raimi's original is today - one can hardly praise Fede Alvarez' 'Evil Dead'! "

A reviewer from Cinema wrote: “Directing debutant Alvarez takes on a humor-free, gloomy tone that is refreshingly different from the cultically revered original. Unfortunately, the possibility in the script that the whole horror could also take place in Mia's head is hardly played out. Instead, he concentrates on indulging in images that [...] are reminiscent of the nihilistic terror cinema of the 1970s and set off excessive gore fireworks like the multiplex audience has never seen. These completely handmade and mega-dramatic special effects are so excellently tricked that they almost steal the show from the actors, who literally get everything out of themselves - which should hardly bother genre fans who are fixated on show values. [...] A fabulous slaughter festival for the toughest. "

The lexicon of international films judged less open-minded: "Weak remake of the modern horror classic by Sam Raimi, which plays with the myth of the original, but ultimately only basks in its splendor."

On Kino.de it was said: “Where Raimi quoted the Marx Brothers with a wink and already hinted at the comic-like nature of the two successors, there is grim humorlessness in 2013 [...]. A fabulous bloodbath that chases from thrill to thrill, pays homage to survival horror and sets a milestone that can be seen from afar for tests of courage in the cinema. "

Trivia

While the film was still allowed to be shown uncut in German cinemas, it was placed on the list of media harmful to young people, list part A (colloquial: index ) for the home cinema evaluation in October 2013 by the Federal Testing Office for publications harmful to young people .

Sam Raimi's 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 can be seen in a scene at the beginning of the film when David and Mia arrive at the cabin in the woods. Exactly this model appears in almost every film that Sam Raimi has worked on.

The first letters of the names of the five main characters (David, Eric, Mia, Olivia, Natalie) form the word "Demon", the English word for demon .

The dialogue between the demon and Mia at the end of the film (demon: "I will feast on your soul!" , Mia: "Feast on this, Motherfucker!" ) Pays homage to the original artwork, in which the main character Ash is fighting Demons and demons have a variety of similar dialogues with his opponents.

At the end of the film, following the closing credits , Bruce Campbell has a brief guest appearance as Ashley "Ash" J. Williams, the main character from the original films .

On January 25, 2015, an expanded version of the film was shown on the British television channel Channel 4 , which had not been published on any other medium until then. The extended version should appear in Germany on June 30, 2017. It had previously been released in Sweden and Japan, both with the German soundtrack. After several postponements, the extended version was published in Germany on August 9, 2017.

Continuation and series

Alvarez announced at the premiere at the SXSW Festival that a sequel was in the works. Sam Raimi confirmed plans, together with his brother to the plot Evil Dead 4 , which, however, than to write Army of Darkness 2 ( Army of Darkness 2 will be released). At the WonderCon Convention in Anaheim in March 2013, Campbell and Alvarez declared their ultimate plan was to follow Alvarez ' Evil Dead 2 and Raimi's Army of Darkness 2 with a seventh part that would bring together the stories of Ash and Mia.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2014, Sam Raimi announced the development of an Evil Dead TV series; this was confirmed at Ohio Comic-Con 2014. Bruce Campell plays the character Ash again . The series has been broadcast under the title Ash vs Evil Dead since October 31, 2015 on starz and Amazon Prime Video.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Evil Dead . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 137 519-a V).
  2. ↑ Maren Koetsier: Sam Raimi's new "Evil Dead" film gets script help from Diablo Cody. Film releases July 14, 2011, accessed August 25, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Evan Dickson: No CGI At All In The New 'Evil Dead'? !! . In: Bloody Disgusting . January 6, 2013. Accessed January 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, 23. – 29. January 2014, p. 24f
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  6. ↑ Review on Zeit Online , accessed on June 6, 2013
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  8. ↑ Review on Cinema.de , accessed on June 6, 2013
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  11. ↑ Schnittberichte.com: Evil Dead-Remake uncut in German cinemas , accessed on September 6, 2017
  12. ↑ Schnittberichte.com: Evil Dead (2013) lands on the index , accessed on September 6, 2017
  13. ↑ schnittberichte.com, comparison of the extended cut and the theatrical version, accessed on February 1, 2015
  14. ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on April 27, 2017
  15. ↑ No Evil Dead 4…, Army of Darkness 2! , Shock Till You Drop, accessed June 6, 2013.
  16. ↑ Russ Fischer: Bruce Campbell and 'Evil Dead' Director Fede Alvarez Would Love to Merge Original and Remake Storylines . In: slashfilm.com . March 30, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  17. ↑ Mr Disgusting: Breaking: “Ash Vs Evil Dead” Casting and Details! . Bloody disgusting. February 11, 2015.
  18. ↑ Lizzie Plaugic: The first Ash vs. Evil Dead trailer is ridiculous and gory . In: The Verge . Vox Media . July 11, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2015.