
Her friends take her to her parents abandoned cabin to help her detox. So you know the story (and to be fair the film does a nice job of setting up our typical kids in a cabin scenario), the protagonist Mia, played by Jane Levy, is an addict. The audience disbelief when words started to be read from the Necronomicon was audible, but I consider myself to be pretty good at going along for the ride with these sorts of things. It’s a horror movie and you have to suspend certain instincts. I entered the theater to be provoked into a state of unsettled entertainment. I entered this movie with no bias towards it due to what came before. I am an Evil Dead fan (all three previous movies) however I am not beheld to them. Last night upon leaving the screening, the crowd I was with were divided roughly 50/50 as to whether they liked it or felt it another unnecessary remake - no one loved it, that’s for sure. The film is in wide-release currently and David provided a mostly positive take after its SXSW premiere, but I felt an alternate view on it was necessary. What should be written is “Leave this franchise alone.” Studio 666 looks poised to follow suit, and a nod to its predecessor would be entirely appropriate.“Leave this book alone” is written in blood on a page of the Necronomicon in the 2013 ‘Rebirth’ of the Evil Dead. Raimi’s films were trendsetters in the balance between horror and comedy. But given Studio 666’s overtly satirical tone, and its open affection for the era of horror that produced the Evil Dead films, it’s reasonable to assume that the new movie will take its cues directly from the old one.

All of that would be in keeping with the Evil Dead's Necronomicon, which possessed the power to banish the Deadites as well as summon them.ĭetails remain speculative at this point, at least until more of the film is revealed. It’s presented as a possible solution to the problem, either as a means of banishing the spirit possessing Grohl or the source of evil in the house, which the book’s destruction would purify. The binding carries the same hallmarks, though it seems to have a smaller face. However, it does reveal a very similar-looking book discovered in the basement of the house during what appears to be a possessed Grohl’s extended reign of terror. The trailer doesn’t explicitly reveal whether the famed book is included in Studio 666.
