History YMMV / EvilDead2013

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Some cues of Roque Baños's score and its overall broodingly brassiness for the film can bring in mind Music/GraemeRevell's score to ''Film/ChildsPlay2'', while at the same time baring a resemblance to the horror film music works of [[Film/{{Scream}} Marco Beltrami]] and [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Christopher]] [[Film/DragMeToHell Young]].

* AssPull: The whole ending after [[spoiler: David successfully (well, in the actual movie at least) depossesses Mia.]]

** [[spoiler:When the possessed Mia demands that Natalie not cut off her infected arm, does she seriously believe that removing the arm might prevent Natalie's possession, or is she just faking it to give Natalie false hope and make her mutilate herself senselessly?]]

* SignatureScene:
** Possessed Mia cutting her tongue with the boxcutter.
** Mia [[spoiler: fighting the Abomination in front of the burning cabin while it rains blood.]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: As welcome as [[spoiler: Ash's cameo]] in the stinger is, it makes zero contextual sense.

** While the deadites are much less hammy than the original, they can still sometimes veer into over-the-top {{Narm}}. But also like the original, it doesn’t once diminish their creep value.

* NarmCharm: The forced exposition can be hilarious. Then again, it’s an Evil Dead movie.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:

* BrokenBase: It being yet another 2000s-2010s remake of a horror film this was bound to happen.

* IdiotPlot:
** All of the horror in the film is set off when Eric reads from the ''Naturom Demonto'' after ignoring the written instructions in the book itself specifically saying ''not'' to do that, even using a pencil to recreate some parts that had been torn out, just so he can read them aloud, and all this after cutting open the book itself, which was wrapped in plastic and barbed wire.
** The group is at the cabin in the first place to help Mia detox from her heroin addiction, but things start rapidly falling apart from there; on the advice of Olivia (a registered nurse, not a doctor), the group refuses to allow Mia to leave no matter how badly she begs (thus creating an negative environment, risking the very sobriety they're trying to enforce). Taking her to detox at a clinic or a hospital would have averted the entire plot of the film. Making matters worse, when Mia's condition worsens, Olivia insists that she (again, a registered nurse, not an MD) is providing the same level of care Mia would get at a hospital.
* JerkassWoobie: David abandoned his sister (and friends) years ago to take of their insane dying mother, which caused his sister to become a drug addict. He hasn't kept in touch since. However, he genuinely regrets this, loves his sister dearly (to the point he's willing to risk his life for her), and is taunted by the Deadites about being a terrible big brother and son. [[spoiler: Which leads to his RedemptionEqualsDeath]]

** In an homage to the original film's infamous "tree rape" scene, Mia is confronted in the woods by a vision of herself as a Deadite, which vomits up a black, vaguely root-like tentacle that slithers it's way up Mia's leg and works it's way ''inside her''.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: When the possessed [[spoiler: show flickers of their human personality, is it the demon masquerading as its host, or is it the demon's control temporarily slipping? Or is it the demon intentionally permitting its host temporary awareness and speech, ''just'' to sadistically fuck with host and witnesses, alike?]]

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Natalie's death]]. [[spoiler: After she loses one arm in a botched amputation and becomes possessed anyway, David blows her other arm off with a shotgun to save Eric. Suddenly [[DyingAsYourself the demon leaves her body]], and she doesn't understand why David is hurting her. She bleeds out in his arms, sobbing, scared and confused, while [[DissonantLaughter Eric laughs mirthlessly.]]]]

* IdiotPlot:
** Okay, once Mia says [[spoiler: she wants to go home, and they refuse, they have created an adverse environment]]. Anyone who has been addicted or knows someone who was an addict knows that you can't force someone to come clean, and that adverse environment will hurt the addict going through withdrawal. [[spoiler: Mia has done this before, so the friends should know this.]] David actually objects to Olivia's plan at the beginning, but [[AssPull suddenly starts trusting her]].
** So let's get this straight...the people from the opening scene clearly know exactly what the Necronomicon is and what it's capable of, so they...leave it in plain sight, on a table, in a cabin that someone obviously still owns. But not only do they leave it in a place where someone is guaranteed to find it sooner or later, they go through the trouble of ''wrapping it in fucking barbed wire'' as if that's going to actually discourage anyone from reading it. The fact that they had the time to go find barbed wire and wire cutters somewhere means they clearly weren't leaving in a hurry, so it's not like they left the book there by accident. Not to mention, they're in a forest, where there are literally thousands of places where they could easily ''hide'' the book well enough that nobody could ever find it, yet they choose the barbed wire option anyway. In other words, the entire plot is set in motion because those people are among the dumbest beings on the planet.
*** Considering the evil has the power to turn ''trees'' into rape-monsters, who's to say that hiding it in a forest wouldn't be the '''worst''' choice of disposal sites?
*** Also considering we never actually find out anything more about the people from the opening scene, they might have been planning to take the book away, [[KilledOffscreen but never got the chance]].

** Which wouldn't be surprising if all of this brings her back to drugs. Death by heroin overdose probably sounds like an attractive option at this point.
*** Assuming she doesn't bleed to death from having to lose her hand, alone and in the woods.

* WhatAnIdiot: Eric dooms everyone and himself by reading the incantations within the Necronomicon. What doesn't help is that the book was found wrapped in barbed wire and a trash bag and Eric thoughtlessly cuts through the barb wire and tears open the trash bag. The man even goes so far as to IGNORE THE WARNINGS WRITTEN WITHIN THE BOOK TO NOT TO SPEAK OR WRITE ANY OF THE INCANTATIONS.
** After arriving at the cabin, Eric and David explore the basement, which not only has dozens of rotting cat corpses hanging from the ceiling, but also a very scorched support beam, suggesting that somebody was burned there. Instead of freaking out and leaving the place, they react with DullSurprise, and instead set about cleaning out the ritualistic dead cats. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, because that's an everyday occurrence.]]