History YMMV / EvilDead2013

* CompleteMonster: [[YourSoulIsMine The Taker of Souls]] is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic entity]] whose evil is so great that he is regarded as the Devil itself by many who face him. Often accidentally summoned by hapless innocents using the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Naturom Demonto]], the Taker seeks to [[DemonicPossession possess]], torment, and kill five people so as to use their feasted-upon souls to summon the nightmarish [[HumanoidAbomination Abomination]] to the mortal realm. In one instance of his summoning, the Taker turned a teenage girl into his host and killed her mother, laughing in her father's face about it. In the present, the Taker possesses Mia by raping her, then goes about torturing and maiming her and her friends in horrific ways while picking them all off. The Taker gleefully mocks her brother all the while that Mia and their mother are burning in Hell, and he'll soon join them for daring to defy the Taker.

* CompleteMonster: [[YourSoulIsMine The Taker of Souls]] is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic entity]] whose evil is so great that he is regarded as the Devil itself by many who face him. Often accidentally summoned by hapless innocents using the ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore Naturom Demonto]], the Taker seeks to possess, torment, and kill five people so as to use their feasted-upon souls to summon the nightmarish [[HumanoidAbomination Abomination]] to the mortal realm. In one instance of his summoning, the Taker turned a teenage girl into his host and killed her mother, laughing in her father's face about it. In the present, the Taker possesses Mia by raping her, then goes about torturing and maiming her and her friends in horrific ways while picking them all off. The Taker gleefully mocks her brother all the while that Mia and their mother are burning in Hell, and he'll soon join them for daring to defy the Taker.

** Which wouldn't be surprising if this brings her back to drugs. Death by heroin overdose probably sounds like an attractive option at this point.

* 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 [[Frachise/{{Hellraiser}} Christopher]] [[Film/DragMeToHell Young]].

* 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''.

* TheScrappy: Olivia comes as this for some. Even though she tries to help Mia, most fans of the movie hate her for trying to pretend to be a real doctor and only making Mia's heroin problem worse.

* [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Our Deadites are Different]]: While Deadites throughout the franchise were never exactly [[{{Understatement}} pleasant creatures,]] the ones in this film are straight up malicious, the deadites seem to delight in keeping their hosts aware enough to see and feel what the host is doing, evidenced by one making a girl clearly watch in horror as it makes her mutilate her own face, and giving a false HopeSpot to another by letting her cut off her own arm, but, in an inversion to the original attempt in the franchise, it possesses her anyway, these ones actually seem much more fond of Self Mutilation and seriousness, than the Evil, prankster stylings of the Original Trilogies, they also look different, gone are the milky white eyes and inhuman growls, replaces with sickly yellow iris and a werid demonic insectile chirping sound.

** [[spoiler: It's quite debatable. The condition for the Abomination's release is for 5 souls to be consumed. In the main story, 4 people die in the house: Olivia, Natalie, Eric and David. In the prologue, the little girl dies. Also, the dog dies. Anyway it's pretty certain that the "quota" has been fulfilled.]]
*** [[spoiler: Yeah, no. The girl is purified, so she doesn't count. The dog's soul would make sense, since it doesn't say they have to be ''human'' souls, but it's still pretty desperate. Among the main group, only Olivia dies in a way that wouldn't count as purification (getting her skull bashed in): Natalie was dismembered; Eric and David were burned; and Mia was buried alive and then brought back. So even if the dog could be counted, the Abomination would have only consumed 2 souls.]]
*** [[spoiler: On the other hand, the girl from the opening is stated to have killed her mother, so her soul could possibly be counted as the third, but it's still not enough to fill the "quota".]]
*** [[spoiler: The Abomination only needs to consume five souls, but may not need to retain them. So each soul acts like a key to a lock, but even if you take the key back the lock will remain open. Looking at who died, the little girl from the intro, Mia, Olivia, Natalie, and Eric were all possessed and David died in the fire before he became a Deadite. This could explain why it is so weak, all the souls it would have consumed to grow in power have been purified for the most part.]]
*** Mia's [[spoiler: death and subsequent resurrection could mean that she came back without a soul. That would fulfill the quota]] and count as FridgeHorror.
*** [[spoiler: Or, only the teens counted, and the reason the Abomination was so weak was because Mia was brought back as the Abomination was being summoned, ripping Mias soul out of the ritual, the reason it is so intent on getting Mia is because it cannot assume it's full range of power without her soul.]]

* [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Our Deadites are Different]]: While Deadites throughout the franchise were never exactly [[{{Understatement}} pleasant creatures,]] the ones in this film are straight up malicious, the deadites seem to delight in keeping their hosts aware enough to see and feel what the host is doing, evidenced by one making a girl clearly watch in horror as it makes her mutilate her own face, and giving FalseHope to another by letting her cut off her own arm, but, in an inversion to the original attempt in the franchise, it possesses her anyway, these ones actually seem much more fond of SelfMutilation and seriousness, than the Evil, prankster stylings of the Original Trilogies, they also look different, gone are the milky white eyes and inhuman growls, replaces with sickly yellow iris and a werid demonic insectile chirping sound.

*** Much like the original films. Everything could have been avoided had Ash not only not listened to the recording but picked up the book in the first place.
*** I believe the book has a supernatural power that frees itself and draws people to it. It's not stated outright, but it's not far fetched either.

* EndingFatigue: It should've ended after [[spoiler: David revives Mia]].

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The reliance on practical effects pays off very well.

* LoveItOrHateIt: Although the fans outweigh the detractors, it's only by a ''very'' slim margin.

* LoveItOrHateIt: You will find as many fans as you will detractors.

*** Mia's [[spoiler: death and subsequent resurrection]] could mean that she [[spoiler: came back without a soul.]] That would [[spoiler: fulfill the quota]] and count as FridgeHorror.

** Which wouldn't be surprising if this brings her back to drugs.

* AssPull: The whole ending after [[spoiler: David successfully (well, in the actual movie at least) depossesses Mia.
** It's quite debatable. The condition for the Abomination's release is for 5 souls to be consumed. In the main story, 4 people die in the house: Olivia, Natalie, Eric and David. In the prologue, the little girl dies. Also, the dog dies. Anyway it's pretty certain that the "quota" has been fulfilled.
*** Yeah, no. The girl is purified, so she doesn't count. The dog's soul would make sense, since it doesn't say they have to be ''human'' souls, but it's still pretty desperate. Among the main group, only Olivia dies in a way that wouldn't count as purification (getting her skull bashed in): Natalie was dismembered; Eric and David were burned; and Mia was buried alive and then brought back. So even if the dog could be counted, the Abomination would have only consumed 2 souls.
*** On the other hand, the girl from the opening is stated to have killed her mother, so her soul could possibly be counted as the third, but it's still not enough to fill the "quota".
*** The Abomination only needs to consume five souls, but may not need to retain them. So each soul acts like a key to a lock, but even if you take the key back the lock will remain open. Looking at who died, the little girl from the intro, Mia, Olivia, Natalie, and Eric were all possessed and David died in the fire before he became a Deadite. This could explain why it is so weak, all the souls it would have consumed to grow in power have been purified for the most part.]]

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

*** The Abomination only needs to consume five souls, but may not need to retain them. So each soul acts like a key to a lock, but even if you take the key back the lock will remain open. Looking at who died, the little girl from the intro, Mia, Olivia, Natalie, and Eric were all possessed and David died in the fire before he became a Deadite. This could explain why it is so weak, all the souls it would have consumed to grow in power have been purified for the most part.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: As welcome as Ash's cameo in the stinger is, it makes zero contextual sense.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Natalie's death]]. [[spoiler: After she loses one arm in a botched amputation and becomes possessed anyway, David blows her other arm 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.]]]]

* 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 their human side temporary awareness and speech, ''just'' to sadistically mess with host and witnesses, alike?]]