"I
have tweezers in my bag,” one of the stock female characters of the new Evil Dead cheerfully chirps at some
point in the movie. The line perfectly captures the relative intelligence level
of the film. Her boyfriend has got a shotgun shell in his arm, begotten from
his demon-voiced, black-ooze-spouting, projectile-vomiting baby sister, whom
the characters now lock in the bloody basement next to a book of evil curses
and the dozens of strung-up cat carcasses. Well, I don’t know what they
would’ve done without those tweezers!
Fede
Alvarez’ remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult classic might not be much to think
about, but it’s definitely a lot to watch. A lot of gore, that is. Viscera and
limbs fly as the blood splashes, spatters, and spurts; it even rains from the
sky. Chainsaws, electric meat cutters and nail guns are involved.
