#BRUCE CAMPBELL EVIL DEAD 2013 MOVIE#
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Evil Dead spoke to your inner gorehound, and if you count yourself among the Evil Dead faithful, every new episode on Starz was Sunday night appointment viewing. If delightfully gruesome B-cinema is your jam, Ash vs. Layered beneath severed limbs and smeared viscera, of course, is character, something for the audience to hang onto when all the world turns crimson. Evil Dead hit all the right notes, marrying crass, slapstick humor with over-the-top splatter effects. If you're any kind of Evil Dead fan - from the 1981 original to the myriad sequels to the reboot - Ash vs. Evil Dead revive a dormant cult property for TV's Golden Age and do its particulars justice in a long-form narrative format? Absolutely. 'I'm always philosophical about cancellation these days,' says Campbell in a chat with Thrillist days ahead of the series' third season Blu-ray release. But Bruce Campbell - the Ash Williams, genre film icon of the past 40 years - isn't sweating it. Evil Dead has met an untimely demise, cancelled in response to a decline in ratings. In the words of Ash himselfвЂ¦ Groovy.After three seasons of guts, glory, and more sick Deadite kills than you can count on a chainsaw's teeth, Ash vs. Even so, AlavarezвЂ™ take on the mythology that Raimi created is a more hardcore remix of the ideas of the original, mixing intense gore and a deep emotional story of someoneвЂ™s internal struggle coming forth physically in blood splattering fashion. A cameo from Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams confirms the continuation and a promise of a team-up between Ash and Mia has been mooted but as yet has not come to anything. The filmвЂ™s edge is helped by Jane Levy as Mia, despite rising to prominence through sitcom Suburgatory thereвЂ™s none of the wise-cracking, smart-ass quips that Levy made her name in, instead, Mia is a broken individual, ruled by a desire to get high, who has to fight for her right to live. Alvarez stated that the Naturom Demonto can force situations to happen and so events from the original are repeated but changed, the tree, losing an arm, possession, it also explains why when Mia is possessed the voice of Cheryl Williams from the original film rings out screaming you will die, like the others before, one by one we will take you making it clear this is a cycle of violence. Unlike Ash, Mia opts for a more hard-edged approach to deadite killing, a move that involves her pulling her own arm off to escape crushing by car, and chainsawing a hell-monster in half. Mia herself the last survivor has to face off against a storm of blood from the sky and a hell abomination coming for her. Once the fifth soul gets taken things really go balls-to-the-wall. The most punishing sequence sees a possessed Mia (mirroring her drunk personality) chastising her brother for not loving her enough. The infamous tree rape sequence comes back, as well as people burning themselves, tongues being cut with box knives, and assault with a nail gun but what cuts deepest in the film is the emotional core. When they stumble across the book of the dead naturally one of them reads it and horrible gore ensues. Instead, four friends: David, Eric, Natalie, and Olivia gather at a cabin to help their friend, and DavidвЂ™s sister, Mia go cold turkey. Evil Dead jettisons the teens get drunk in the woods scenario of the original, and the more slapstick elements, for a harder-edged film. ItвЂ™s the same cabin from the original film, marked by an appearance by RaimiвЂ™s beloved 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 dubbed вЂњThe ClassicвЂќ outside (the car has featured in all of RaimiвЂ™s films, including a western).

#BRUCE CAMPBELL EVIL DEAD 2013 MOVIE#

What sets AlvarezвЂ™ movie apart from remakes is that itвЂ™s not a remake at all, itвЂ™s a continuation.

Comics, games, and a proposed mash-up with Bruce CampbellвЂ™s Ash against Freddy Kruger and Jason Vorhees later and unknown Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez was given the keys to the franchise with 2013вЂ™s Evil Dead.

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He then re-re-made it with the meta-sequel Evil Dead II in 1987, then lampooned the entire series with 1992вЂ™s Army of Darkness. The splatter-horror subgenre really became a powerful entity when Sam Raimi released his 1981 classic The Evil Dead, itself a remake of sorts of a student film Within the Woods. Long before there was torture porn there was splatter-core.

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