Now Raimi and Campbell have revived The Evil Dead as a television series for Starz called Ash vs Evil Dead (notice how they dropped the “The,” akin to the polarizing 2013 pseudo-remake Evil Dead). The film was, in Raimi’s own words, a “comedy of errors.” It also ushered in a new era of indie horror filmmaking and engendered a new horror trope (later skewered, with deft precision, by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, in The Cabin in the Woods). flaunted their DIY aesthetic, splashing gallons of blood and viscera all over everyone and everything. The cringe-worthy violence and homages to the original film (demon POV shots, possessed trees) may be enough for the Evil Dead purists, but newcomers might demand more if they're expected to view this flick as something worth holding onto - and not just (really) nasty horror junk.Įvil Dead opens in theaters on April 12th, 2013.Thirty-five years ago, a young aspiring filmmaker named Sam Raimi and his ragtag team of friends, including the Joel half of the Coen brothers, used their limited resources to craft one of the greatest horror films of all time: The Evil Dead, a frenzied, frantic, fiercely original vision of pretty young people chopping each other up in a cabin in the woods, starring a then-unknown Bruce Campbell. a metaphor for vintage pop culture) and assume they're cool enough to handle it?īeyond that, it's the emotional impact of (literal) substance addiction demons that Levy confronts which must pull us through and given audiences reasons to root for her, even as her peers are pulverized. After all, who doesn't want to watch obnoxious hipsters spouting Cody-isms get taught a lesson, when they meddle with the Necromonicron (ie. To be honest, I suspect it will partly depend on how much depth of characterization the screenwriters are able to infuse into the human "players." With Diablo Cody ( Juno, Young Adult) touching up the dialogue, they may represent the arrogance of the current generation and, thus, the story could have satirical undertones.
But in an age where the original film's tropes have been riffed ( Cabin in the Woods) and recycled ( Cabin Fever) to death, can a grittier and grosser re-telling satisfy anyone but gore-hungry horror-philes? For all intents and purposes, the new Evil Dead is the picture young Raimi and Campbell originally set out to make (looking back with the benefit of 30 years' hindsight and additional filmmaking experience, that is). That explains why Campbell (as he explained at the NY Comic-Con) put star Jane Levy through hell before shooting on Alvarez' remake got underway. Raimi views the 1981 feature as "a little campfire story" and says Alvarez' remake presents a chance to revisit his "old melody" and take it places he never imagined.
THE EVIL DEAD 2013 TRAILER MOVIE
That accounts for references to French surrealists Georges Franju ( Eyes Without a Face) and Jean Coceatu (the Orpheus trilogy) in a movie some describe as a mix of Night of the Living Dead and The Three Stooges.
Raimi's original Evil Dead earned a cult following for its camp gore, but Raimi and star Bruce Campbell (who's also producing the remake) made the film with serious intention. Today's green band trailer likewise passes on the story, but suffers without the grisly payoff to fall back on (translation: it's even less scary, without the disgusting content). Red band trailers for Evil Dead gleefully inundate viewers with gory imagery and shudder-inducing violence, but what about legitimate horror that's actually scary? The story from director Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues Mendez and producer Sam Raimi follows five friends into the woods, where they unwittingly unleash deranged supernatural forces by reading from a mysterious (and dangerous) book.Īlvarez' remake incorporates a drug addiction subplot, but Sony recognizes the blood splatter and callbacks to the iconography of Raimi's original stands a better chance of making Evil Dead fans giddy - and turning around negative opinion - as opposed to, a legitimately terrifying exploration of health care.
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