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Raimi Remaking 'Evil Dead'?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the is-that-even-a-good-idea dept.

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."

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  1. Re:What do ya mean Horror?! by Peyna · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  2. Re:What do ya mean Horror?! by kyliaar · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Don't you mean he's re-remaking it?! by Dun+Malg · · Score: 4, Informative
    ...he wanted to do Army of Darkness, but had done Evil Dead with a different studio, and so he couldn't use that footage in AoD, so he had to re-shoot it basically into Evil Dead 2

    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.

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  4. Re:Don't you mean he's re-remaking it?! by RedWizzard · · Score: 4, Informative
    Ah, okay... Thanks for the info. Still, it's pretty amusing that they remade an entire movie so that they could use bits in an intro for the next one. :)
    Evil Dead II wasn't that reshoot though. They did reshoot parts of Evil Dead II for AoD. At the time they made Evil Dead II, Sam and co had no idea if they'd get to make a third movie (AoD was made 6 years later). Evil Dead II was made primarily because of Raimi's lack of success with Crimewave. I'm sure it would have been made eventually, but the timing was due to Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell needing do something successful. Grab a copy of Bruce Campbell's biography, If Chins Could Kill, he explains it.