Evil Dead is a horror film that was directed by Fede Alvarez and was released in 2013. It serves as a remake of The Evil Dead, and the first film in the series since 1992’s Army of Darkness. It is a reboot of the Evil Dead franchise, and therefore the fourth instalment. It is also loosely a sequel to the original series. Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, and Rob Tapert produced it. Bruce Campbell appears in a very brief cameo after the credits. The cast includes Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas and Elizabeth Blackmore. The running time in the movie is 92 minutes, and the budget for the Horror film was 17 million however it went on to make $97,542,952 from the box office.
The first shot displays the title of the
movie "Evil dead". The opening of this sequence firstly starts of
with a black screen however immediately the title "Evil Dead" shows
in bold, red text with a non-diegetic crash sound which presents the film to
the audience watching, giving a thematic suggestion giving the impression that
it will be a very intense and startling story line.
The blood is pouring into every part of the
building, involving a light bulb in a room, shown in the down below image. This
illustrates the amount of the violence and gore in the film as the blood
literally manages to go everywhere in the house. Choir singing can be heard,
which is suitable for the theme of the film; there is a religious suggestion
because a book is found that is likely to have belonged to a cult. The music
also has a moderately fast pace that is reminiscent of heartbeat, or the sound
of someone running, which foreshadows scenes in parts of the film.
In this scene of the Evil Dead we are shown a close up of a human flesh being heartlessly pierced through by a nail. This just shows us the audience how the Demon or Satanic creature is willing to do anything to finish off their victim. To go to that extreme length it just shows how brutal this Creature can be, and is something we as the audience should fear.
In this ferocious scene we the audience are stunned with a
finger (on its on) being dropped on a puddle of blood. With it being edited in slow motion we can
clearly see all the bits within the finger, which we all wish we had never saw.
This foreshadows the creature’s behaviour, as we then understand the Demon
herself like to torture their victims first before inhumanly slicing them to
death.
In this ferocious scene we the audience are stunned with a
finger (on its on) being dropped on a puddle of blood. With it being edited in slow motion we can
clearly see all the bits within the finger, which we all wish we had never saw.
This foreshadows the creature’s behaviour, as we then understand the Demon
herself like to torture their victims first before inhumanly slicing them to
death.
In this section of the scene we the audience are flashed
with Satanic symbols, which again has great relation to the film (Evil Dead) as
it is about Demons/Devils processing the human body. In this section of the
scene we can only view them for half a second as they are constantly appearing
and disappearing and helps create suspense.
Near the end of the opening we are shown the name of the
main star of the film (Shilon
Fernandez) . By showing this last to us, it will make us the audience
understand he has a role in the film, which is important.
This scene we are shown a blaze of fire as the music intensity
increased. This really helps create
suspense in the atmosphere; it furthermore helps to symbolise destruction and
chaos.
