{"id":6229,"date":"2014-09-17T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2014-09-22T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T15:42:33","slug":"movie-review-evil-dead-a-surreal-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/6229","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: Evil Dead, A Surreal Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"edr\"<\/a>By Nick Rasmussen–\u00a0<\/b>Last year, I witnessed a film that would shake the foundation of my soul.\u00a0 It is an experience I will never forget.\u00a0 At the time, I was busy preparing for and trying to decide what I would do after leaving college.\u00a0 I had papers up to my eyeballs and felt the sizzle of my brain, fried from the endless work I had finished and had yet to do.\u00a0 When I went out to get some fresh air, Jason R. Lees, a friend and fellow local filmmaker, told me that tonight was the last showing of Evil Dead, a film I had wanted to see, but hadn\u2019t the time for.\u00a0 Despite the work I had to finish, I got in my car and drove over the Promenade for a mental break from reality.\u00a0 As I made my way to my seat, I realized that there weren\u2019t very many people at the theater.<\/p>\n

To be clear, the 2013 version of Evil Dead is not a remake, but more of a re-envisioning.\u00a0 The protagonist from the previous Evil Dead films \u201cAsh\u201d (Bruce Campbell) didn\u2019t exist in this film.\u00a0 I found this to be both bad, since I am a fan that was looking forward to some classic Evil Dead, and awesome because I didn\u2019t really know who, if anyone, was going to survive.\u00a0 Like the previous films, our story begins with a group of friends in their twenties who meet at an old cabin in the woods they would stay at during their childhood for the weekend.\u00a0 Following the traditional horror film structure, the characters are isolated from any outside help or escape from the terror that awaits them.<\/p>\n

In the cellar lays a book, the Necronomicon, (roughly translated as the book of the dead) bound in human flesh and inked in human blood.\u00a0 As you could guess, curiosity kills the cat.<\/p>\n

Evil Dead is rated R and has a running time of one hour and thirty-two minutes.\u00a0 This film falls in the thriller\/horror category and overall is given three stars by the masses.\u00a0\u00a0 Evil Dead (2013) is the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise.\u00a0 That Evil Dead franchise includes The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead 2 (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992).\u00a0 This American horror film was co-written and directed by Fede Alvarez.\u00a0 The three previous films where written and directed by Sam Raimi<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are some fun facts: The Evil Dead was rated NC-17, Evil Dead 2 was rated X and Army of Darkness is rated R.\u00a0 The Necronomicon is a fictional book that first appears in the The Hound a 1924 short story by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.\u00a0 This book was a detailed record of evil spirits, how to summon them and how to destroy them.\u00a0 If you\u2019re thinking \u201cWell then it shouldn\u2019t be too difficult them to stop the problem,\u201d you\u2019re wrong; the rules of destroying the evil spirit are that it has to be dismembered, burnt alive or buried alive.\u00a0 These rules do have loopholes, but the chances escape are slim.<\/p>\n

From the beginning to the end of the credits, the film had me so captivated that I did not even know if I was breathing.\u00a0 Even after the credits were done rolling and the house lights dimmed on, I was frozen in my seat.\u00a0 My body shook uncontrollably as if my very core was ice.\u00a0 The only word I could force out into the silence was \u201cwow\u201d.\u00a0 As I made my way out of the room, I realized that I had been alone through the entire movie.\u00a0 Down the dark hallway, I walked, increasing the level of tension.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until I reached the lobby that I knew something wasn\u2019t right.<\/p>\n

The theater was a ghost town.\u00a0 No one was anywhere to be found, no customers and no employees.\u00a0 It was so unsettling that I waited to see if anyone would come passing by.\u00a0 Not only did no one pass through, but the building itself was unnaturally quiet.\u00a0 There was no sound coming from the lights or machines from behind the counter.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid something bad happen while I was watching the movie?\u201d I thought to myself.\u00a0 I made my way outside and it only got worse.\u00a0 There were no birds, no cars, not even sounds of the city that were always around no matter how quiet it was.\u00a0 I raced to my car expecting something was going to chase after me.\u00a0 \u201cThis isn\u2019t right. This isn\u2019t happening\u201d, I thought to myself.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t hear or see a soul for another six blocks away from the theater.\u00a0 I can only describe such an uncommon event like that as fear, an emotion that is lost to those who desensitize themselves to horror movies.\u00a0 Though afraid, as a horror fan I felt strangely satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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