Evil Dead (2013) / revisit

The house ain't laughing and no eyeball flies into a victim's mouth. There is no hardy-har-har. No birdy screech or cackling ballerina undead dance. The severed hand doesn't give a middle finger. This is a diseased arm severed from the body with a meat carver. This is a shotgun blasting off another arm of the possessed woman you love. This is a piece of mirror glass ripping apart the pretty face of a nurse possessed. This is a crowbar smashing a head. This is nails fired into the body by a gun without any chance to find a hiding place. This is broken sink crushing a head. This is a dad burning alive his precious possessed daughter. This is a needle pulled from just below the eye. Blood and bits are vomited into the face. A creepy-crawly black vomit stick demon makes its way into Levy's vagina while the woods "holds her in place". A box cutter does its damage. And despite what we might believe... Levy's fate as the possessed isn't as expected. That's a twist I remember being startled by. Glad to see the Michigan State sweatshirt and car Levy was chilling on while smoking a cigarette. A sister with substance abuse, a brother who stayed away while their mother died in a hospital insane. This wasn't directed for shits and giggles. Levy gets a rain of blood. And a machete across her knee and shoulder in a crawlspace. When Eric tells David he let something out that was evil from the passage of the book, this film proves it.

But no Evil Dead movie would feel right without a chainsaw.