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The producers of the incoming Evil Dead reboot had no doubts that a remake of an absolute classic would have to go no-holds-barred to justify its existence. If this horrifying trailer is anything to go by, they’ve succeeded, and then some.
Be warned, before you click play, if you’re not a fan of graphic horror films, this certainly isn’t for you.
There’s no way you’d be able to capture the humour that Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell managed to inject into the original Evil Dead, so I’m glad they haven’t tried. A serious horror film will probably do justice to the original material, but it’ll never better it, even if there is a lady licking a knife. Yuck. [YouTube via First Showing via Gizmodo Australia]
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Gore generally doesn’t bother me (within reason) and I love horror films but I’m actually not sure I can bring myself to watch this. That knife-licking scene was horrific.
Gah, watching that made my mouth water. Not in a nice “roast chickeny” way, but like nerves. Like my mouth’s crying.
There was no element of comedy in the first film. That only came with the second and third entries in the series. Much like a lot of horror films in the 80′s, the first making it straight to the video nasty list, then subsequent films get camper and more one-liner based. Nightmare on Elm Street being a good example.
Oh, and Bruce Campbell has fully endorsed this version, if you have any qualms about it’s pedigree.
https://twitter.com/GroovyBruce
Can’t watch the trailer as I’m at work, but i’m just hoping there’s no raping tree scenes, especially not with Sam Raimi’s realism…..
You know it’s going be good when the MPAA declaration is on RED!
Yawn.
Screaming teens getting hacked up.
I’m already rooting for evil.
Yawn… and a comment from one who this film is clearly not marketed at and clearly couldn’t give a shit about the subject.
Why did you even bother looking at this post and leaving a comment if you’re so bored? Do everyone else a favour and just move on and comment elsewhere if you’ve got nothing to say here.
You didn’t have to read it. Did you ?
Yes, yes I did.
And now for my witty retort. You didn’t have to respond, did you?
We could here all year….
We could BE here all year rather…
Suits me, I’m not going anywhere fast. Besides, you didn’t answer my rather well thought out question. I’m insulted.
Naah, I think the whole genre hit a dead stop in the 70′s, it’s all a bit derivative and juvenile now.
You know, “pop will eat itself” and all that.
I personally thought the genre backed out it’s own lower intestine at the end of the 80′s, but each decade has managed to make something out of it of it’s own, and for it’s own.
Self referential in the 90′s (scream), re-invention in the noughties (blair witch made in 98, but influenced the ‘found’ footage style up to the recent ‘paranormal activity’), and now back to screaming teens getting hacked up (Evil Dead, The Cabin in the woods, Tucker and Dale vs Evil).
The 20xx’s (TwentyTeens??) so far have popularly focused on zombies and vampires. I’d like to think that this decade is not going to be all about glittering pedophiles and the terrorist threat represented as flesh eating dead versions of ourselves…
But you’re right. We’ve gone soft, and most horror films are now just a poor parody or ripoff (or even worse, a really bad remake… nightmare on elm street for instance) of what has gone before. But for new generations, this can lead them back to what we consider the golden years of horror, when Fangoria was the portal, and a poorly copied VHS of a banned ‘video nasty’ was our prize.
I stopped watching in the 80′s for certain, I can’t remember the last one that I watched all the way through.
probably “Let The Right One In”.
I think almost every other Genre is capable of making me sit up to attention from time to time, but not horror.
The problem is I’m a sucker for the shock of the new, and there’s no ‘new’ to be had here.