Zitat:Regie führte Fede Alvarez, das Drehbuch stammt von Alvarez und Rodo Sayagues, wurde jedoch von Juno-Autorin Diablo Cody redigiert.[1] Im January 2013 kommentierte Alvarez den Bezug des aktuellen Films zum Original folgendermaßen:

„Now, the way I personally like to see Evil Dead (2013), it's as a story that takes place 30 years after The Evil Dead ended. The car is there, the cabin is there (a family bought it and did some work on it more than 20 years ago) and the book has found its way back to the cabin”¦ New kids will encounter it and suffer its wrath. Is Evil Dead a sequel then? Maybe. But the problem with the sequel theory would be that there are too many coincidences between the events on The Evil Dead and the ones on Evil Dead to have happened on a continuous story line [”¦] But if you believe the Naturom Demonto can force these things to happen”¦ then it could be a sequel”¦ and I do believe in coincidences.