Headscratchers / Evil Dead (2013)

• Who was the Deadite who attacked Mia near the beginning of the movie and subjected her to the tree-rape? It can't be the girl who was burned in the prologue, since she was, well... burned, and according to Eric's translation of the Naturom Demonto, that should have killed her.
  • Word of God says it's the girl from the beginning. Wow, doesn't that open a whole other can of worms...
    • As mentioned below her father shot her dead before she finished burning, which may have ruined the purification.
  • It's also possible that what she saw wasn't the girl from the beginning, Word Of God aside, but was instead a demonic version of Mia, which was the image her mind projected onto the Force. This at least would jive with the fact that the image Mia sees is a brunette girl wearing a white dress, such as Mia wears when she really starts acting possessed (the shower scene and thereafter), whereas the girl in the opening was blonde and wearing a vaguely purple-ish dress. This also fits with what Olivia sees just before she gets possessed, namely a hissing, feral reflection with the Glasgow Grin she will shortly be sporting. It may be that whenever a human sees the Force, their mind projects a warped version of themselves onto it.
    • In the commentary, director Fede Alvarez refers to the girl as "Evil Mia."
• How is it that the necklace that Mia breaks at the beginning of the film is perfectly fine after the house is destroyed? There is no possible way that David had enough time to fix it in the short time between the conversions and the house being destroyed.
• How was it that Mia was able to keep the chainsaw running even though the gas cap clearly fell down the hole? There was no way the chainsaw could have kept running when the was maneuvering herself under the car without the cap.
  • Same reason how Ash can shoot three times a two-barelled shotgun. Being the designated survivor in an Evil Dead film at least has some perks, infinite ammo being one of them.
• A math problem: The Abomination needs five souls to rise. It never seems to get more than four over the course of the movie. How do the numbers add up?
  • Possibly Mia doesn't get her soul back, even though she's freed from possession.
    • In the original ending, Mia was still possessed, but still, only TWO souls (Eric's and Olivia's) were harvested, three if we count Grandpa the dog.
  • Could be Fridge Brillance: the dog?
  • Mia died for a moment, so the Abomination clearly didn't need five souls, just five deaths as a sacrifice.
    • No, no. They clearly state five SOULS, so that's not it.
    • Possibly, every person who dies while the Evil is active counts as a "soul" toward the Abomination. So there was the girl in the beginning, her mother that she killed, then Eric, Olivia and Natalie. The Evil was inactive between those two incidents, but not defeated, so it could have "saved" the girl and her mother's soul toward the Abomination.
    • That's an explanation, but it sounds way too much like grasping at straws. What was wrong with something like 'Five must die'? If in a possession movie you use the word 'souls', you usually have to mean 'souls' and explain yourself if you don't.]] But of course, seeing some scenes like [[Too Dumb to Live Eric reading the book.
    • It's possible that the Abomination needed Mia's soul to rise, but when her soul is returned it leaves it weaker. The Abomination seemed like barely more of a threat than the deadites, and indeed seemed worse in some respects.
  • Another explanation is this: you don't actually have to die while possessed and without being purified; you just have to be possessed in the first place (heck, Eric is possessed after he dies). In this case, a temporary possession still counts, which would mean that the five souls are the girl from the beginning, Mia, Olivia, Natalie and Eric.
  • The thing is if you take the explaination that 5 people need to die for the Abomination to rise, every single character has died at least once during the film, David died when the cabin exploded the rest were possessed and Mia did die for a few seconds before David hit her with the jury rigged defib he made, so technically i think it still counted, unless you needed to be possessed first, it already did have soul no.1, the girl from the start, maybe she still counted because she died on the cabins grounds and the ritual just restarted when Eric read the book.
  • Possibly, every killed being during the event counts as a soul. The first one was the blonde girl’s mother (which was killed by her offscreen) the second was the dog (who’s a living being after all) followed by Olivia, Natalie And Eric. David And Mia don’t count because Mia was brought back and David killed himself
    • And what about Natalie? She was de-possessed after being shot by David.
    • Probably she wasn’t really “de-possessed” after all. The demon pretended to be the blonde girl to her father (and he believed) and pretended to be Mia to lure Natalie and trick David, so it’s totally possible the demon was “pretending” to be Natalie, only to give an emotional impact to David and make him feel guilty.
• According to Word of God, the 'Abomination' which looks waaay too much like Kayako from Ju On is actually the girl from the first scene. How this could happen since she was CLEANSED is anybody's guess, and I think we can rule out the 'Evil took her form' since they said it was the girl, and not the Evil taking her form.
  • In the beginning the father shot his daughter dead before she finished dying from the immolation, so it may not have fully purified her as it should have.
  • Also worth noting is that the end credits list that creature as "Abomination Mia", so some of the "Word of God" stuff on this page may come from faulty sources.
• Both Natalie and Mia being able to cut off an arm very easily. BONES. DO. NOT. WORK. THAT. WAY.
  • With Mia, a jeep fell on top of her arm. This could have easily broken the bone, meaning that the only things holding her in place was her skin and muscle; which could also have been damaged by the jeep falling on her arm.
    • The movie makes it clear it didn't, and the cutoff is way too clean.
• With Natalie, the electric knife actually shorts out once she reaches the bone, meaning she may have found another way to break it in the time it took the guys to find her.

  • She did find away. While it was offscreen, Natalie is later seen leaning against the fridge moments before her arm falls off. There was a lot of blood staining the fridge above and below the wound. She could have smacked her cut arm off of it till it broke.

• After Mia is apprehended for showering herself with boiling water, Eric says that nothing has been going great since they've got to the cabin. Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with the cursed book you decided to read despite all the warnings not to do so within the book itself! Why is Eric never once called out for reading the Necronomicon that started this madness? Sure, there would be no movie without it, but why doesn't anyone at least call him out on this??
  • Does anyone else in the cast even know he read from the book? If I remember correctly, they were off doing other things when he did.