Evil Dead?!?!

[Mikefrompluto]

Anyone seen the trailer for it yet? Thoughts? I was skeptical at first. Then I learned Raimi and Campbell were producing and felt a little better. I just watched the trailer and it convinced me that it might live up to the original.

[Dudecore]

Cash in. Don't pay Hollywood to see these movies. It lacks all the depth, humanity and care that the original did. Rebel against the sequels to already known intellectual properties, rebel against remakes. Who knows, maybe Hollywood will back the next Sam Raimi and you'll get an actual labor of love and not a cash grab.

[Maximo]

That is a very emotional response to one trailer.

[Dudecore]

That is a very emotional response to one trailer.

Didn't see the trailer, I'm sure it's wonderful. I just don't like remakes or "re imagining". The movie exists, it was a labor of love made on a small budget.

The remake is a big budget, meant to bring the most amount of people into the theaters. It's devoid of any emotion. 90% of the movies now are sequels, remakes or a reboot. It's annoying to no end.

[Mikefrompluto]

That is a very emotional response to one trailer.

Didn't see the trailer, I'm sure it's wonderful. I just don't like remakes or "re imagining". The movie exists, it was a labor of love made on a small budget.

The remake is a big budget, meant to bring the most amount of people into the theaters. It's devoid of any emotion. 90% of the movies now are sequels, remakes or a reboot. It's annoying to no end.

I agree on remakes, sequels, and reboots are annoying, but its Bruce Campbell producing. Everything he touches is gold.

[Imdowd80]

The trailer looks amazing. And this is coming from a true evil dead fan. I have multiple copies if each movie. I hav seen The Evil Dead musical. (Second row dead center right in the splatter zone) I own the soundtrack to it as well.

[Mikefrompluto]

The trailer looks amazing. And this is coming from a true evil dead fan. I have multiple copies if each movie. I hav seen The Evil Dead musical. (Second row dead center right in the splatter zone) I own the soundtrack to it as well.

Yeah man. I grew up on the Evil Dead trilogy, so I had pretty high expectations when I heard about a possible remake. Im glad they went with a remake instead of a fourth installment that was rumored. And im even more glad that Bruce and Sam are involved.

[Langku]

That...uh...frisky tree scene always made me feel icky. It looks even more uncomfortable now.

[Mikefrompluto]

That...uh...frisky tree scene always made me feel icky. It looks even more uncomfortable now.

On mine and my wife's first date, we watched Evil Dead. It got to that scene and made things really awkward. I was surprised she talked to me again after that hahah.

[Imdowd80]

http://m.ign.com/videos/2012/10/24/evil-dead-red-band-trailer

There is a link to the trailer. This does not look like a cheap cash in.

[Mikefrompluto]

http://m.ign.com/videos/2012/10/24/evil-dead-red-band-trailer

There is a link to the trailer. This does not look like a cheap cash in.

Not at all. I like that they kept the seriousness of the original. Makes me wonder if theyll do 2 and Army in slapstick if they remake those as well.

[Dudecore]

Why didn't they just make a new original film, if not to cashin on the "Evil Dead" name? It's people with the attitude of "it doesn't look like a cash in" that these movies are successful. Every original intellectual property in the last 10 years is already on its 2nd or 3rd sequel. Everything that isn't a sequel is a reboot.

Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell aren't above making money and selling out. That is why they produced this movie to make money and sellout the Evil Dead name. Evil Dead is a brilliant movie that came out in 1982. A bunch of friends from Detroit raised $400,000 and made a horror film, a labor of love. The reboot is just...an attempt to tell a story that everyone knows and loves...again.

As long as people see these movies, there won't be new Sam Raimi's and Tom Sullivan's. if we keep paying to see "Transformers", and "Battleship", and whatever attempt for Hollywood to sell us back our childhood, well, it just sucks.

In conclusion ill refer to Red Letter Media's Star Trek ('09) Plinkett review in an effort to better demonstrate how bad it's really gotten. http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-trek/star-trek-09/

[Imdowd80]

You realize there is nothing main stream about this remake right? No big name actors attached, no big name director. The director they have, got his break off of a YouTube movie he did.
If they had gotten some Hollywood stars like the girl from Hunger Games to play Linda, or Jordan levit to play Ash (there isn't even an ash character in the movie) then I would agree with you.
It's just a good looking horror film that takes place in The Evil Dead universe. And if you look real close you can see the car that Ash and his friends drove in the first film. One ofthe ladies is sitting on it, so this could be some weird reboot/sequel.

[Langku]

As long as people see these movies, there won't be new Sam Raimi's and Tom Sullivan's. if we keep paying to see "Transformers", and "Battleship", and whatever attempt for Hollywood to sell us back our childhood, well, it just sucks.

I agree with you that original content and labors of love are completely satisfying. I think it's important to remember that the original Evil Dead while certainly groundbreaking (pun intended) was nevertheless successor to a long line of similarly dark and grisly tales. While not a genre fan myself, I can appreciate the influence of the Excorcist, any George Romero or Hichcock film, and older stories like Lovecraft and even Poe that offered a foundation on which to build this dark film. It's okay for filmmakers to borrow ideas. While it doesn't move the art form forward as much, it certainly helps refine and define the medium.   

Also, movies don't have to be cerebral to be enjoyable. Plain old flashy fun is a very acceptable medium of entertainment. Thanks for your perspective. It's been a fun thread. And cerebral too.

[Ghetto Pass]

Everything Dudecore has said is right.  Hollywood doesn't care about art anymore.  Money is the bottom line.  It pains me to see remakes of films that were originally made in my lifetime.