Evil Dead Burn: How much gore is too much gore on screen? This blood-filled nightmare is not for the faint-hearted
How much gore is too much gore? More importantly, why is our dear Central Board of Film Certification comfortable allowing a detailed decapitation in a Hollywood film like Evil Dead Burn to be screened, but objects to a similarly brutal head-smashing sequence in the recent runaway hit Obsession, or even in Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar? That’s a debate for another day. A still from Evil Dead Burn. Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead Burn is as gory, horrifying and shocking as they come. Yet, it’s also immensely entertaining. The Sebastien Vanicek directorial follows Alice (Souheila Yacoub), whose boyfriend, Will, drives off after an argument with her, only to be killed by a Deadite. At his funeral, Will’s father, Edgar, bids his son a final goodbye, only to be attacked by Will’s possessed corpse. Burned by the Deadite, Edgar becomes its next host, setting off a gruesome chain of events. Before long, the family turns on Alice, holding her responsible for Will’s death, and all hell breaks loose. On the surface, Evil Dead Burn plays out like a blood-soaked …
