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2013 · horror · supernatural · survival

Evil Dead

Directed by Fede Álvarez1h 31m2013
ElsewhereIMDb6.5210kRT64%Metacritic57
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

Our read · Evil Dead (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural · survival entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a lean cabin-fever splatter remake that escalates without mercy.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 25attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgoregraphic violencebody horrordrug usejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if bodily mutilation and possession dread will haunt your sleep.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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