No one ever likes seeing their favourite film getting a sequel/prequel, but what they like even less is seeing it remade. So as a fan of the Evil Dead film franchise I understand where the negative feelings are coming from, but I’m going to give this film a chance and if you’re a horror fan or fan of the franchise it deserves to be at least checked out. For those of you not in the know Sam Rami, director of the Spider-man trilogy (the Toby Maguire one, in case you’re reading this after The Amazing Spiderman No. 3) was originally best known for his horror film trilogy The Evil Dead , which while made on a shoestring budget and not getting a wide spread release, went on to become one of the Horror genres most popular film franchise and a cult film series in its own right. Basically The Evil Dead films are held up on a pedestal by its fans and its untouchable, so when Sam Rami announced he planned on making a Evil Dead 4, after dropping out of Spider-man 4, fan interest was high, would we see a continuation of Ash’s fight against the Deadites, but the project never went ahead and was mentioned very little after the initial announcement. Then in early 2011 Bruce Campbell announced that a remake of The Evil Dead was underway with himself and Sam Rami serving as executative producers, opinions were strongly mixed.
So with the film coming out shortly, have they done a good job at mixing the old and the new? In my opinion yes they have, they’ve kept the more serious horror feel of the first Evil Dead film and built on that. This film look genuinely terrifying, which I hope it is, it’s a bit of a pity to see the humour of the two Evil Dead sequels is missing, but I for one will be going to see this movie and I hope you do too.
Check out the trailer below or at the link here: EVIL DEAD - Full Redband Trailer
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