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The Evil Back Again .........Evil Dead (2013)

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RELEASE DATE: APR 05, 2013; RATED: R; LENGTH: 90 MINUTES; GENRE:  HORROR ; WITH:  SHILOH FERNANDEZ  AND  JANE LEVY ; DISTRIBUTOR:  SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT Image credit: Sony 'EVIL DEAD'  Jane Levy stars along Shiloh Fernandez in the remake of this cult classic. In the years since its 1981 release, Sam Raimi's cabin-in-the-woods cheapie  The Evil Dead  has been elevated to the realm of myth. You won't find many films as near and dear to the hearts of horror nerds. The legacy isn't based on the fact that  The Evil Dead  had a great screenplay, because it didn't. In fact, the plot is as basic as they come: Five college students drive out to a shack in the middle of nowhere, mess with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder that plays malevolent incantations, and unleash bloody Lovecraftian hell. The film's effects were cut-rate even for the early '80s, and the acting (other than a charismatic breakout turn by lantern-jawed B-movie ico