Young musician Beth visits her sister and her children, seeking advice on something she must face. While there, and earthquake causes an old passageway to be revealed, home to an unimaginable evil that has been locked away for years, and should stay locked away. If there is one thing that makes sense about any of the Evil Dead films is that they make no sense. That was the one thing I expected from this film, and it more than delivered. It may sound like some sort of slight (I adore the other films, for the record), but the creativity that is on display in the first 3 films is ever present here, just from different perspectives. Young talents, a simple story, crazy gore/horror set pieces, and a pace that picks up and never slows. It’s Evil Dead in it’s truest form, right down to the very core of the story, but manages to bring something different to the table. It doesn’t trip up in the way you’d expect other horror reboots to, but it keeps it’s momentum going the whole way through. If I had to say what it feels closest to in way of tone, I would say this bears more similar to the first one, where those still living play it straight, but the comedy coming from the assholeish deadites who just want to make them suffer. Far and away the grooviest bloodbath of 2023, and if I had the time, I would’ve bought a ticket for the next showing, and watched it back to back. That’s how good it is.