Shawn Van Horn has been a Senior Features Author for Collider since 2022 with a focus on horror, and 90s TV and movies.
The Big Picture After the instant classics that were Alien and Aliens, the franchise has been up and down in quality ever since. Many sequels were too dumbed down or off-the-wall, no matter if Sigourney Weaver was still involved, or the xenomorphs were battling predators. Ridley Scott tried to right the ship, so to speak, with Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, and while those were better-made films, many fans didn't like the direction he took.
Fede Álvarez Ditches the Comedy For His Version of 'Evil Dead' Removing Ash wasn't the only change 2013's Evil Dead made. It also ripped away the humor. There are a few jokes in the finished film, but it's far from a comedy. Álvarez's version aimed to be straight-up horror. It's pure nightmare fuel, made to get under your skin and make you squirm and look away in terror. Many horror films use humor as a release valve.
1 That dedication to showing the audience something real is what helps to make everything so scary. The original trilogy did that too, but some of those effects, such as the stop-motion dancing Linda in Evil Dead II don't look real. The 2013 version tops everything that came before with its uber-realistic-looking mayhem. You don't need any context to be scared when you see someone cut off their own arm with an electric knife, or watch someone else split their own tongue in two.
Levy plays Mia Allen. She is a heroin addict, and in order to overcome it, her friends and brother take her to a cabin in the woods to help her get through the withdrawal. We're given an untraditional hero who we don't easily get behind. She's multi-layered and not just a stereotypical final girl from a horror movie.
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