Nadine Whitney

Mia’Kate Russell’s brilliant slasher and homage to mid-1980s teen films and Ozploitation needs an antagonist to spark the chaos and that’s precisely what Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn does as Penny’s malicious and mixed-up cousin, Kat. Where Penny is light, Kat is darkness in her goth clothing and fire engine red hair. She thinks she is in control, but she has no idea just how out of hand things will get when she brings her drug dealing boyfriend and his crew into the beach house.

Most Evil Dead movies rely on a basic attribute: somehow someone either reads from the Necronomicon or a recording does. The words incite the Deadite demons to attack and infect leading to a bloody battle where friends and family slaughter each other in a gore-fest for the ages. There are exceptions such as Army of Darkness, but the basic premise holds for the franchise.

Mia’Kate Russell’s brilliant slasher and homage to mid-1980s teen films and Ozploitation needs an antagonist to spark the chaos and that’s precisely what Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn does as Penny’s malicious and mixed-up cousin, Kat. Where Penny is light, Kat is darkness in her goth clothing and fire engine red hair. She thinks she is in control, but she has no idea just how out of hand things will get when she brings her drug dealing boyfriend and his crew into the beach house.