Evil Dead is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by Fede Álvarez, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rodo Sayagues.

It stars Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, and Elizabeth Blackmore.

The project was officially announced in July 2011, with Ghost House Pictures producing it, Diablo Cody in the process of revising the script, and Fede Álvarez chosen as the director.

A girl is tied up in the cellar of a remote cabin, where an old woman is reciting incantations from a strange book in the Welsh language.

David discovers that the cabin had been broken in prior with the cellar littered with rotting cat corpses, a worn double-barrel shotgun, and a book called the Naturom Demonto.

David finds Grandpa beaten to death with a hammer and discovers Mia scalding herself in the shower with boiling water.

That night, a possessed Mia wounds David with the shotgun and vomits onto Olivia's face before Eric locks her in the basement.

Furious at being driven out of Mia and so close to being resurrected, the wrathful Taker of Souls is forced to possess the corpse of Eric before attacking David in the cabin when he came to retrieve his car keys.

Mia severs the Abomination's legs with a chainsaw, but it overturns David's Jeep Wrangler onto her left arm, crushing it in the process.

After Mia’s hand gets torn off from her freeing herself, she bisects the Abomination's head with a chainsaw before it sinks back into the ground and the blood rain stops.

In a post-credits scene, an older Ash Williams (the protagonist of the original three Evil Dead films) is seen in shadowed profile.

Jack Walley also had a small role in the film as Billy Bob, a truck driver who rescues Mia after she escapes the cabin, though his scene wound up being deleted.

[5] Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues co-wrote the script, which was then doctored by Diablo Cody in an effort to Americanize the dialogue since English was not the writers' first language.

[11] Initially, Lily Collins was scheduled to play the lead female role of Mia, but dropped out in January 2012,[12][13] with Jane Levy replacing her the next month.

Fede Álvarez tweeted on January 28, 2013, that the film first received an NC-17 rating, which prompted cuts in order to obtain the contractually obligated R-rating.

[25] On October 10, 2018, Sony Pictures announced the release of the Unrated Cut on Blu-ray Disc in a two-disc manufacture on demand combo pack with the theatrical version.

The critics consensus states: "It may lack the absurd humor that underlined the original, but the new-look Evil Dead compensates with brutal terror, gory scares, and gleefully bloody violence.

[32] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review, calling it a "remake that will win the hearts of many of the original's fans.

[34] Emma Simmonds of The List commented: "Evil Dead has ample cheap shocks and few bloodcurdling frights but it builds to something gorily bravura and, if that's your bag, you'll come away satisfied.

"[35] Matt Singer called the film "an assault on the senses" and "a success, one that out-Evil Deads the original movie with even more gore, puke, blood, and dismembered limbs.