{"id":3471,"date":"2016-06-21T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:38:51","slug":"evil-dead-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3471","title":{"rendered":"Evil Dead-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Evil Dead-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director <span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Fede \u00c1lvarez<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #425<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70243679.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3472\" src=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70243679-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70243679\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70243679-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70243679.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 21, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having recently seen the original Evil Dead, directed by horror master Sam Raimi, from the early 1980s, I found the remake fine but not as compelling as the original.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hardly the most terrifying film you will ever experience either.<\/p>\n<p>While the original was quite a low-budget film, the remake is modern and glossy-looking, though with only a tiny cast.<\/p>\n<p>The film is set almost entirely inside a cabin in the middle of nowhere at night, has a wonderful mood, and includes all the necessary horror elements.<\/p>\n<p>A Book of the Dead is unearthed, and evil spirits possess the youngsters one by one.<\/p>\n<p>The film is entertaining, has lots of well-done gore (loved the bathroom face-cutting scene), and, while over-the-top, doesn&#8217;t feel overly cartoonish.<\/p>\n<p>It has fresh energy.<\/p>\n<p>It takes some liberties (in reality, someone with a torn-off limb wouldn&#8217;t keep walking around as if nothing happened).<\/p>\n<p>A silly drug-addiction subplot feels unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>There are some genuine scares, and all in all, Evil Dead (2013) is an enjoyable horror movie-going experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evil Dead-2013 Director Fede \u00c1lvarez Starring Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez Scott&#8217;s Review #425 Reviewed June 21, 2016 Grade: B Having recently seen the original Evil Dead, directed by horror master Sam Raimi, from the early 1980s, I found the remake fine but not as compelling as the original. It&#8217;s hardly the most terrifying film you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evil Dead-2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,11808],"tags":[10596,12674,10597,3821,3822,12673,12672,3823],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-films","category-horror-films","category-supernatural-horror","tag-bruce-campbell","tag-elizabeth-blackmore","tag-ellen-sandweiss","tag-fede-alvarez","tag-jane-levy","tag-jessica-lucas","tag-lou-taylor-pucci","tag-shiloh-fernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24522,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/24522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}