Love the idea or hate it, the reboot of Sam Raimi’s THE EVIL DEAD is on its way to theaters, and now there’s a date for the flick to mark on your calendars to go with plot details that have been making their way across the web.

Box Office Mojo reports that the new EVIL DEAD will be released April 12, 2013—the 30th anniversary of the original, which first hit screens April 15, 1983—under Sony Pictures’ Tri-Star banner. Directed by Fede Alvarez from a script he wrote with Rodo Sayagues and Diablo Cody, the movie will have less humor than its predecessor and be more akin to THE SHINING, according to reports accompanying story details that cropped up the other day. Here they are, courtesy of Moviehole, with a SPOILER ALERT in effect:

“Mia and David, estranged siblings who have recently lost their mother (Mia’s taking it the hardest being that she’s the one who spent most days at the hospital watching her mother deteriorate) have reunited, along with some old friends and his David’s fiancée, for an intervention at that old cabin.

“A big storm sets in. Everyone heads to the cabin. The book of the dead is found, and arrogant Eric (one of the friends along for the trip) takes the most interest in transcribing passages from it. Always the dicks that bring the trouble, right?

“Meanwhile Mia struggles with her newly sober self—big time. She was going slightly loopy anyway from a recent overdose (one in which she technically died from but was brought back) so no surprise that Mia is the first and worst to go bananas. And no surprise either that nobody believes her crazy claims of coyote dogs and trees attacking her!

“Convinced this is just a crazy druggo coming to grips with her new reality, the gang insist Mia stay put. As far as they’re concerned, she’ll do anything to get out of the cabin and back to the comfort of a bar.

“The stuff Mia starts seeing (she sees in the mirror a bloody face with a cracked skull sticking out) and doing (vomiting blood and vile at her friends; getting trigger-happy with a rifle) is alarming; but again, David and co say she’s not leaving until she’s cold turkey. Bad idea obviously—the more time in the cabin, the further the demon that lives there can climb inside her body and take it over.

“Covered in burns and blisters, and with bloodshot eyes, and complete with a new macabre grin, Mia goes all Jack Torrance on her mates. Even after she’s injected with tranquilizers, the wild young woman is still a menace. They have no choice but to lock her in.”

Things get worse from there, and this time there’s no Ash to save the day. Stay tuned for further developments…

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