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Raimi Remaking 'Evil Dead'?
Matt writes "Has Hollywood's staleness finally rubbed off on Sam Raimi & co.? Get this, Sam Raimi is remaking 'Evil Dead', the 1981 horror cult classic. Oh and if that wasn't shocking enough, he won't even be directing it... But somehow Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell are onboard as well."
I saw ED 2 before ED 1. That may be why, but I think ED 1 stinks.
ED 2 is SOOOOOO much better...
Evil Dead = attempt at serious horror film
Evil Dead 2 = attempt at serious horror film, abandoned halfway through the film where it turns into some kind of horror spoof
Army of Darkness(Evil Dead 3) = full out horror spoof/comedy
That said, they're all hilarious.
What?
Well, actually I would say that Evil Dead is pretty much an attempt to make a pretty serious, suspensful horror flick. There is a lot of intriguing camera movement, sound and overall spookiness. However, Ash's girlfriend becomes pretty funny after she gets zombified and they have a scene that plays on an earlier scene before hell breaks loose.
Evil Dead II is where you start to see intentional humor. This, in my opinion, is the best of the three movies. Raimi is much better at directing humor than horror. Also, Bruce Campbell does zany pretty well as you see Ash start to slip into insanity. Stuff starts to get very surreal here with Ash chopping his own hand off and the hilarity that ensues from that as well as the classic replacement of his hand with a chainsaw. There are other very memorable scenes in this movie that tend more towards humor than horror.
Army of Darkness I saw first and I loved it so I wound up buying the whole trilogy. In retrospect, I find it is the weakest of the three movies. All the crappy stop motion, poor dialog, etc. Don't get me wrong, it's great and made me watch the first two but if you have only seen Army of Darkness, you don't have a good barometer to judge the other two with.
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Actually, on the audio commentary track of AoD Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell explain that the reshoot had nothing to do with not having the rights to the original footage, but that the timing of all the scenes they wanted to use in the AoD intro was all wrong and just couldn't be edited in a way to make it fit right. So rather than try to shoe-horn in butchered bits of old footage in a way that fit the pacing of the intro, they just re-shot what they needed.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Too Late...
Already been done...
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Except for the fact that these guys have made one good movie after another. Lucas has not.
Sam Raimi (Look at the director and writer credits, not producer)
Rob Tapert
(ok, maybe not Bruce Campbell, but he's got some gems in there)
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The new fictionalized Marion Davies character from Kane, now Wendi Deng, will be played by Lucy Liu.
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