Evil Dead (2013 film)

Directed by	Fede Alvarez
Produced by	Bruce Campbell
	Robert Tapert
	Sam Raimi
Screenplay by	Fede Alvarez
	Rodo Sayagues
Starring	Jane Levy
	Shiloh Fernandez
	Lou Taylor Pucci
	Jessica Lucas
	Elizabeth Blackmore
Music by	Roque Baños
Cinematography	Aaron Morton
Editing by	Bryan Shaw
Studio	Ghost House Pictures
	FilmDistrict
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures (USA)
	Sony Pictures (Int'l)
Release date(s)	March 8, 2013(SXSW Film Festival)
	April 5, 2013 (United States)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
	New Zealand
Language	English
Budget	$17 million
Box office	$97,454,981

PLOT

Captured in the woods, an injured girl (Phoenix Connolly) is restrained in a basement with many people present. Upon revealing she is demonically possessed, her father, Harold (Jim McLarty), sets her afire and shoots her dead. Subsequently, Mia (Jane Levy), her brother David (Shiloh Fernandez), Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci), Olivia (Jessica Lucas), and David's girlfriend, Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore), arrive at an old, remote cabin in the woods where they plan to help Mia recover from heroin addiction. A foul stench leads them to the cellar, where they discover rotting animal corpses, a double-barreled shotgun and a book titled Naturom Demonto, a Sumerian variation of the Book of the Dead. Ignoring warnings scrawled on the book's pages, Eric reads a passage aloud, summoning a demon which enters Mia's body.

Terrified, Mia pleads to leave, but the group refuses, believing she’s suffering from withdrawal. She heads out alone, but a possessed girl suddenly appears in the rain-drenched road, and Mia steers into a flooded ditch, disabling the car. Returning to the cabin on foot, Mia becomes entangled in branches that seem to have a life of their own. One coils around her neck, nearly choking her. The demon girl reappears. A snakelike vine emanates from the girl's mouth, winding across Mia's leg before heading under her dress to assault her. Mia reappears at the cabin and tells David that whatever attacked her in the woods is in the cabin with them, but he ignores her. After discovering that Mia has murdered his dog, David walks in on her scalding herself in the shower, which Eric recognizes is prophesied in the book. David tries to drive her to a hospital, but flood waters block the road. Returning to the cabin, Mia shoots David in the arm with the shotgun, attacks Olivia and passes out, and the group puts her in the cellar.

The demon then assaults Olivia, causing her to mutilate her face with broken shards of the bathroom mirror and attacks Eric, who kills her in the ensuing struggle. While David tends to Eric's wounds in the shed, a crying Mia lures Natalie into the cellar and bites her hand. Meanwhile, Eric attempts to burn the book, but discovers that it won't catch fire. Even though it's written in an ancient language, he manages to find enough translations in the book to learn that it prophesies that a demon called the Taker of Souls will consume five souls, unleashing a being called the Abomination. In the kitchen, Natalie's arm is rotting, leading her to sever it with an electric knife. David and Eric return and tend to Natalie's wounds, then discuss their next move. Eric explains that Mia must be "purified" via burning, live burial or dismemberment. Suddenly, Natalie attacks them with a nail gun and a crowbar. David blows off Natalie's other arm with the shotgun, and the demon leaves her body as she bleeds to death.

David decides to burn the cabin, with Mia locked in the cellar, but cannot bring himself to do it. Mia attacks him when he enters the cellar with tranquilizers, but Eric intervenes. David immobilizes Mia and buries her alive in a shallow grave outside the cabin. After Mia dies, he digs her up and uses an improvised defibrillator to revive her. Back at the cabin, David is attacked by Eric, now possessed by the demon. Mortally wounded, David gives Mia the car keys and locks her out of the house. When Eric warns David about the Abomination's arrival, David shoots at the gasoline can, engulfing the house in flames and killing them both. The sky rains blood as the Abomination crawls out of the ground and chases Mia. Despite some grievous wounds, Mia manages to kill the Abomination with a chainsaw, and its remains sink into the ground. Dawn breaks, the blood rain stops, and the Naturom Demonto, on the ground nearby, closes by itself.

In a post-credits scene, an older Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) appears in a dim spotlight and says his iconic line from Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness, "Groovy", before turning to the audience.

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