{"id":6433,"date":"2017-01-24T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2017-01-24T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:50:28","slug":"the-gory-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6433","title":{"rendered":"The gory details"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been watching the first season of Ash vs Evil Dead<\/em> lately (which is SO GOOD), so when the question of “what movie am I going to watch?” came up last weekend, I immediately went to Evil Dead<\/em>.\u00a0To be more specific,\u00a0it came up while I was browsing Netflix and then I\u00a0immediately put it on.<\/p>\n

Let it also be known that I’m talking about the 2013 Evil Dead<\/em> here. Not the original. Though I may binge the original trilogy next weekend, because man am I ever in an Evil Dead<\/em> kind of mood.<\/p>\n

The thing that boggles my mind the most is that somehow, this is supposed to be both a reboot of and a sequel to the original films. Which was perfectly fine until Ash vs Evil Dead<\/em> came along and sort of invalidated it as a canonical entry in the series. I guess Evil Dead<\/em> 2013 could have a different Necronomicon and cabin, but that’s… you know what? That’s fine. I’m fine with that.<\/p>\n

Anyway, ED2013 is a fine movie in its own right, but is very different from its older siblings. I don’t think there’s a single joke in this movie, and I don’t find any of it unintentionally funny either. This version of the tale is played completely straight, and pulls absolutely no punches.<\/p>\n

This story focuses on Mia, a recovering drug addict, who is out at a cabin in the middle of nowhere with her friends in an effort to quit cold turkey. Of course, eventually they find the Necronomicon, someone reads a passage that unleashes an ancient evil, and they all start getting killed and\/or possessed. Only instead of being goofy, these Deadites are dead<\/em> serious.<\/p>\n

ED2013 is brutal<\/em> and is so excessively gory that even I have a tough time stomaching it. That scene with Natalie and the\u00a0carving knife\u00a0makes my stomach churn in a way that movie gore hasn’t been able to do in many years. And then there’s the grand finale where literally everything<\/em> is covered in blood. More blood than Evil Dead 2<\/em>. If you can believe it. It also contains one of the most amazing chainsaw scenes ever committed to film, and it’s absolutely worth watching the entire movie for those two minutes.<\/p>\n

Overall? It’s not really what I wanted in an Evil Dead<\/em> sequel (that’s what Ash vs Evil Dead<\/em> is for), and I don’t usually enjoy movies that exist simply\u00a0to torture their characters for two hours. But the supernatural bent saves it\u00a0and I do like how it reimagines the original story. I mean, I’ve seen it like five times now, so yeah, I obviously like the flick. Do I recommend it? That’s tougher. But I feel like there’s enough information in this short post for you to make that call on your own.<\/p>\n

I feel sick just thinking about what she’s going to do with that knife…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been watching the first season of Ash vs Evil Dead lately (which is SO GOOD), so when the question of “what movie am I going to watch?” came up last weekend, I immediately went to Evil Dead.\u00a0To be more specific,\u00a0it came up while I was browsing Netflix and then I\u00a0immediately put it on. Let … Continue reading The gory details<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-m-for-mature","category-spooky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6435,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions\/6435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}