Evil Dead (2013)

Evil Dead

• I have some very mixed feelings about this movie. There were parts of it I genuinely loved, liked the ending and all the gore scenes. However, there were parts of it that were straight up boring, like the first hour. It took me nearly the entire first two acts to truly get into it. Now, this is my personal opinion, but I think the movie focuses way too much on the characters. Not that it was necessarily bad, but it made it hard to pay attention. I didn’t want to see a bunch of drama and stuff, I just wanted to see deadites and all the cool crazy things. Which it eventually gets to, but man it feels like it takes forever. That’s pretty much my biggest complaint. I just don’t think the characters or story were executed well. The action was fantastic, with bright colorful blood that makes all the chase scenes pop. The vividness is a great contrast to the otherwise drabby color grading. And that’s about it. This movie’s nothing too special, and for most of the time, it was meh, but the last 30 some minutes totally make up for it. I don’t think I’d watch it again, but it was a decent one time watch, and I’d probably recommend it to most Evil Dead fans.