Campbell Confirms new Evil Dead movie
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FINALLY! 
Wait, Diablo Cody?
WHYYYYYYYY?
Sam Raimi is NOT directing?
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??
WHYYYYYYYY?
Sam Raimi is NOT directing?
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??
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Good question. I dunno why!!!!!
Sam Raimi is busy with directing Oz, the Great and Powerful.
But Evil Dead is HIS movie. His and Bruce Campbell's, anyway. If Raimi is not directing and Bruce is not starring, I highly doubt I'll see it.
Just because it's being "developed" doesn't mean it's being "produced".
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The only way I would see this is if A., Ash was an older dude who gets visited by evil one final time and B. Sam fucking Raimi was directing. The technique and passion that went into making these movies was intensely personal.
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Even though it's being presented as another generic horror flick, the gore in this alone looks unique enough that I'm hesitantly interesting.
I can't stand gratuitous gore. I just find it annoying. That's why I avoid the "torture porn" subgenre of horror flicks at all costs (Hostel, for example). So I'm still on the fence. I just need to be convinced that the horror aspects rely on something more than "ew isn't that gross?!" type effects.
We need a good new asylum-set horror flick; preferably a large, abandoned hospital style asylum, as opposed to a lone house or mansion setting. There're just too many horror flicks that rely on the supernatural right now. Zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, poltergeists, possessions, etc. are just getting over-played. Saw was a good anti-supernatural horror flick, but the repetition got a little old after the first few movies. I could really go for a horror detective-story, or something that's more of a mindfuck than it is a gore filled slasher flick. Or, you know, Cthulu. A really well done Lovecraftian Cthulu flick, set in a Victorian setting could be a very nice change of pace.
As much as I love this, no studio wants to touch Lovecraft. If Guillermo Del Toro can't get one made, no one can. Well, not a version true to the source material. I'm sure Michael Bay could get something funded if the premise involves the US military blowing up lots of things.[DOUBLEPOST=1351198166][/DOUBLEPOST]
He really did make the films, didn't he? This trailer feels like it's lacking the spark that Bruce brought to the originals.
Now see, I don't mind gratuitous gore if it's ridiculously over the top like this. Torture porn is different, I feel. But I love the gory slasher flicks because I love to see what they do with practical effects, not just CGI.
For example, in one of the Hatchet movies, the slasher pulls someone's mouth open, ripping the top part of their head from the upper jawbone and up. And then you see this comically long tongue flapping about. I just find that stuff hilarious because it's so implausible.
I have to admit, torture porn was the first phrase that came to mind. Also, I'm sure there's going to be some Bruce Campbell cameo in there somewhere, but...I dunno. I don't see myself really bothering with what looks like a generic kill-off-the-group horror movie so far.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to be really won over by future marketing materials. Raimi is only producing and Diablo "hipsterstripper" Cody is writing it so... It will be like "Juno" meets "Hostel"!
Ok, I'd see that movie.
Ehhhhh I wasn't super big on Juno, she writes like Whdeon did on Buffy in the 90's, but with an R rating. In 2012+ I don't know if that's a good thing.
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In general, the whole torture porn genre just doesn't appeal to me. I watched the first Saw and thought it an interesting movie, but now that there's like 57 sequels to that plus the crapload of variations of the theme (such as Hostel and the Human Centipede)... I dunno, I just think it is pretty terrifying to think that we as a culture keep watching movies where the whole point is the slow and terrifying destruction of the human body, with each movie trying to out-torture the previous ones.
Somehow, there's a difference between torture porn like Saw and Hostel, and the slasher movies I love, like Nightmare on Elm St, Friday the 13, and more recently, Hatchet.
I just can't put my finger on what exactly is the difference. Supernatural element, maybe? Not taking itself so seriously? Someone help me out here.
I just can't put my finger on what exactly is the difference. Supernatural element, maybe? Not taking itself so seriously? Someone help me out here.
North_Ranger
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In the latter, the horror comes from waiting for the inevitable attack and the victim's struggle to survive with a chance for actually succeeding. Death of a character is simply the end of the chase.
In the former, the horror comes from finding more and more gory ways you can dismantle and destroy a human being, both physically and mentally. Death is constantly denied or made to be the ultimate desecration of the flesh, and there's a feeling they never had a chance to begin with.
In the former, the horror comes from finding more and more gory ways you can dismantle and destroy a human being, both physically and mentally. Death is constantly denied or made to be the ultimate desecration of the flesh, and there's a feeling they never had a chance to begin with.
Classic slasher flicks also had a self-conscious awareness of their medium and often had somewhat (sometimes unintentionally) comedic moments to allow the movie-goers a chance to catch their breath. Movies like SAW don't give you that moment to relax.
So, you hated the original movies?
With the exception of Army of darkness, the original movies were gory as hell...
Gratuitous is the key. Gore doesn't bother me. Gore with nothing else is annoying. The original had plenty of scares and creep outs not based on, as N_R put it so well, "the slow and terrifying destruction of the human body."
To be fair, none of us have seen the new Evil Dead so we don't really know. I think it's safe to assume that Raimi is more concerned with story than gore, but the trailer does rely heavily on it so it's understandable why people might think the movie will lean in that genre's direction.
I don't know how much influence Raimi has on the film, but I wonder if it'll be similar to Drag Me to Hell: mostly scary, but with some campy and hilarious moments.
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