I ended up going to the movies today to see the new Evil Dead remake. It's a movie I've been wanting to see since I heard about the remake and saw the first trailer. That's right, for those of you that know me I actually watched the entire trailer.
There have been a lot of horror remakes in the last few years, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St, Friday the 13th, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, just to name a few. The common theme in all of these remakes is that the characters stay the same. People judge them harshly because they don't want them messing with their favorite killer, like Rob Zombie did with his version of Halloween 2...really Zombie!!
When I first heard of the remake of Evil Dead I felt the same, they better not mess up my beloved Ash. Even with Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, & Bruce Campbell on board as producers I was hesitant. Then I read that Ashley J. Williams would not be in the movie, in fact none of the original characters would be.
This excited me because even if the movie was terrible, Ash would not be tarnished. I'm not going to give anything away, I hate spoilers myself. To clarify I don't usually watch trailers of movies that I know I want to see because I will remember something in trailer we haven't seen in the flick and it ruins it for me. If I'm watching a trailer and I decide that I want to see the flick, then I shut the trailer off.
This movie was anything but terrible!! It was downright awesome! Most likely I'm going to go and see it again! There are a few elements from the original Evil Dead & Evil Dead 2 that are in this, as you can see from the photo of Jane Levy below. The biggest common factor being their are 2 males and 3 females for the cast, but that's all I'm going to say.
Go watch the movie! Seriously you will not regret it! It's scary, it's vile, it's awesome! Make sure you stay for the end of the credits, do not make that mistake and leave before, you will regret it when you hear about it later!
Evil Dead is top notch and the word of a sequel is already being rumored and I look forward to it. Unless it goes the way of Zombie's Halloween 2...seriously what the hell were you thinking!
Trailers are linked below!
Later
Mike
Above is the new, below are the trailers for the Original and Evil Dead 2 & Army of Darkness
This movie has no right to be as good as it is. Arguably my favorite horror movie and arguably the best remake ever. I love it.
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