I began to feel a bit woozy around 10 minutes into the movie when the brother & sister characters started to reminisce. This scene, and many others reveal the strange pacing at how the story is shot & the more woodsy-wild feel to the movie than other Evil Dead releases. Unfortunately, this pairs poorly with the best parts of this movie, particularly the dialogue. The poor writing makes all the characters stiff and lacking in vivid motion. The opening shot of the movie was fantastic though, really brought me back to the first time I watched Evil Dead II. The book illustrations look fairly amateurish as well, and the scene where the character with the glasses scratches a pencil over paper to reveal a secret message in the book of the dead is completely unnecessary.
The opening scene creates an omen for the rest of the main story to come, which centers around the demonic force of a female character. This demonic witch trope is an interestingly executed device in this film. The character appears very different to other characters in Evil Dead films, making this film attempt a more psychological leaning, especially with the drug addiction theme. This though creates a major issue for me though, all the witch themes, woods themes, more focus on attempting to create characters with empathizing backgrounds all detracts from the what always made these films great in the first place. It makes me gather that the this film did not know its intended audience and only effected to create a haphazard mix of a fantasy flick and over produced b-gag horror gimmicks.
My Rating: 4/10
The opening scene creates an omen for the rest of the main story to come, which centers around the demonic force of a female character. This demonic witch trope is an interestingly executed device in this film. The character appears very different to other characters in Evil Dead films, making this film attempt a more psychological leaning, especially with the drug addiction theme. This though creates a major issue for me though, all the witch themes, woods themes, more focus on attempting to create characters with empathizing backgrounds all detracts from the what always made these films great in the first place. It makes me gather that the this film did not know its intended audience and only effected to create a haphazard mix of a fantasy flick and over produced b-gag horror gimmicks.
My Rating: 4/10
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