Not much is known about the reboot of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead. Fede Alvarez is directing a script by Diablo Cody and Bruce Campbell is having a cameo and that is about it.
We now have some idea of the plot as a synopsis has surfaced via BD. There are some similarities with the original film, but the appearance of drugs in the storyline is new.
The reboot is true to the roots of Raimi’s original as it follows a group of friends who hole up in a remote cabin, discover the “Book of the Dead” and accidentally unleash an unrelenting group of Deadites.
The “new spin” is the motivation behind the trip, with the lead character taking his younger sister to the family’s cabin to help her kick her drug addiction. Without her drugs she becomes insane and difficult to control, which makes it impossible to see that she’s actually possessed.
The worst part, though, is that one of the friends unleashes the demons by deciphering the Book of the Dead and reading the passages aloud.
I still have my doubts about this as I am worried it will be one of those Hollywood remakes that is all style and no substance.
What do you think of the synopsis?
