Evil Dead Fede Alvarezs Unseen Alternate Ending Wouldve Been Better

Evil Dead: Fede Alvarez’s Unseen Alternate Ending Would’ve Been Better

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Fede Alvarez spoke about an unseen alternate ending to Evil Dead that Sam Raimi nixed; however, the ending sounds like a literal blast.

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Evil Dead Fede Alvarezs Unseen Alternate Ending Wouldve Been Better

Fede Alvarez’s take on Evil Dead apparently has an unseen alternate ending that was nixed by none other than Sam Raimi himself, but from the sound of it, could have made a much better finale to the 2013 movie.

Although certainly no small feat, adapting Sam Raimi’s seminal classic ended up being a success for Alvarez, who turned the 2013 reboot’s $17 million budget into nearly $100 million at the box office. Even so, reception from critics and audiences were mixed, with the film holding a 62% on Rotten Tomatoes and a “C+” CinemaScore. While it certainly didn’t reinvent the wheel and, despite both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell serving as producers for the film, audiences missed the low-budget charm of the original and having Campbell in the driver’s seat.

While the new heroine, Mia (Jane Levy) took Evil Dead to intriguing places, Alvarez’s notion of a continuation to the original, with Ash’s car still being present at the iconic cabin, rusting away into nothingness, didn’t seem as fresh to some as the concept itself in execution. However, fans of the film have enjoyed both an alternate ending and an “uncut” version of the film. According to Alvarez, there’s another ending that he shot with Levy that audiences have not seen; it not only held stronger parallels to Raimi’s original The Evil Dead, but seemed like a more satisfying ending for fans of the franchise.

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Why Fede Alvarez’s Unseen Alternate Evil Dead Ending Would Have Been Better

Alvarez’s take on Evil Dead was already a gory, violent affair that appeased those looking for the same level of madness as Raimi’s original had; Alvarez was also proud of the fact that, even though he is quite familiar with CGI through his career in the industry, he didn’t utilize any of it, and opted for practical effects instead. This added a higher level of technical merit that is occasionally overlooked, as practical effects were the law of the land during 1980s horror films, and even launched careers of now prominent figures like Tom Savini and Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead).

Given this information, the unseen alternate ending of Evil Dead is all the more impressive. In speaking with The Boo Crew podcast for Bloody Disgusting, Alvarez detailed an ending that he shot with Jane Levy that reflected some of the themes in the ending of Raimi’s original The Evil Dead. In the unseen ending, Mia is killed by the evil forces that surround the cabin that were unearthed by her and her friends. Not only is she killed, but Mia is overtaken by the entity, levitates, and then explodes in what Alvarez described as “a bomb of blood”, which makes for a very dramatic – and finite – ending as to her fate. Apparently, Raimi didn’t like the idea of killing off the protagonist even though he killed off Ash in the original ending of The Evil Dead because he believed Ash deserved his fate, but Mia didn’t.

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While sound logic, The Evil Dead as a franchise has always been known for exploring very dark themes within its scope of supernatural horror. Even though Mia and her friends go through a lot together, and she personally experiences significant losses, this shouldn’t make her immune to the evil workings of the Necronomicon or the Deadites. Horror is a genre where, by and large, fans don’t expect to have a happy ending, and sometimes it makes a film more effective when it doesn’t; though bleak, situations where there are no survivors instead of a film leaning on old final girl tropes makes a greater statement. If Alvarez’s unseen alternate ending for Evil Dead ever surfaces, fans will surely be able to decide for themselves.

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