This red-soaked shot gorgeously summarizes the movie, and the hell the characters went through - and it's pretty.
After all that destruction, death, blood, and mutilation, the Abomination has risen, the cabin is in flames, Mia has ripped her hand off, and it's time for revenge. The most cinematic shot comes right before end credits roll. The screencap above is, to me, beautifully composed and beautifully timed. Evil Dead isn't about establishing the mood of something evil this way comes it's about showing the horror in all its gritty brutality, and Alvarez directs the shit out of this flick accordingly. Raw intensity and ferocity is what this remake is about - the camera is constantly in motion, enough to make Paul Greengrass envious, but all for the purpose of unsettling the audience and getting us deeply immersed in this atmosphere of terror. Evil Dead doesn't have the same creepy visual eye of, say, James Wan's The Conjuring, but that's not necessarily what Fede Alvarez is going for. When/if I do a Memorable Shots of 2013 post, expect to see this screencap featured there.
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