Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell & Roger G. Tapert, the lunatics who brought you the camp cult classic The Evil Dead give their producing stamp of approval on director Fede Alvarez's psychotic remake, simply titled Evil Dead.
Overflowing with shockingly gory sequences and disturbing violence, the film surprisingly has a wickedly dark, DARK sense of humour I found absent in the trailers. It's been a long time since a horror film has been this bloody and fun, without sacrificing it's substance over style. Like the original, it aims to shock and it does so with flying colors, pleasing this gorehound who was cautious going into this remake. Apparently Raimi wants to combine the character of Ash with the surviving character of this film into a future story, which makes me wonder if this is really a remake or sequel.
3½ "drug withdrawls" out of 5
4 comments:
If that's what he's going to do, they're going to create a whole new hybrid of genres. An obscure half-breed of remake and sequel.
I had a lot of fun with this one. At first I wasn't sure about the whole intervention aspect but it fades away soon enough as the gore and cringe-worthy scenes take center stage. Also love all the odes to the originals. 4.5 not as effective as a chainsaw but it'll dos out of 5.
I think the high rating comes a lot from watching so many watered-down PG-13 horror flicks and then watching this. So utterly satisfying. I had a shit-eating grin on my face for half the film.
Shit-eating grin indeed.
I'm gonna see it again in the next few days.
Too much feckin' fun.
Watched this a third time now and can't believe I never sat through the credits.
Ala Marvel post-credits' scene:
"Groovy."
:bearclap: :bearclap:
remake/sequel hybrid indeed.
Campbell's looking a little old now but he'll fit in just nicely.
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