I’m just confused as to why it was done the way it was. When you remake something you should be trying to keep the spirit of the original intact. Sure you try and change things up a little, surprise the audience, do all the little “Oh if I had done it I would have done that part differently” things and so on. But to change the entire look and feel of the original so drastically? That’s not a remake; it’s just a cash in on the brand name. And that is what trailer looks to me, a brand name cash in with the movie spun into what is now the generic look and way of modern horror movies that go more for what every other horror movie is doing instead of trying to do their own thing. The trailer to me looked like what a movie studio executive would try and do. Someone who has no concept of making movies or horror in general and instead is just trying to ape a style they probably think “the hip kids want to see”.

It is kind of like saying mcdonalds saying “Hey, let’s reinvent the big mac! We will remove the secret sauce, have one big piece of meat, make the bun rye bread, put on real lettuce, tomatoes, onions and mayonnaise, get rid of the sesame seeds and add some bacon to it! And we will call it the big mac!” Why bother redoing something and then changing it? Evil dead is a great series I just don’t understand the idea of taking something millions of people and you’re core audience already love, remake it and turn it into something that goes against everything all those people originally loved?

But like I said, I’ll go see it. For me to pass total judgment on something by just a teaser bootleg would be very closed minded of me. I won’t make up my mind till I see it for myself and can make a real decision, but man I gotta tell you, it’s not looking too good from what I’ve seen and I’m not really looking forward to it much.

Things have also been slow around here lately due to me working on a couple of novels. That’s right. A couple. Not one. Multiple. Two, actually. So most of my spare time gets eaten up by research and writing. Hopefully that all comes to a head by the end of the year.

Will I go see it? Of course I will. I like to support my medium at the box office for better or for worse. But am I excited? Not really and that is a real shame because I should be excited.

Im with you on the sense of cruelty and meanness in the trailer. It lacked any sense of humor and had no fun in it and to me that is what made evil dead stand out so much was that it was a really fun movie to watch. Without its sense of humor and unique style it would have just been another generic horror movie. I don’t mind a stripped down mean spirited movie, I enjoy them from time to time but I also do not normally re-watch them ever while movies that have a sense of fun to them Ill re-watch a dozen times or more. Oh boy, she split her tongue in half with a knife right in front of the camera……what else have you got? /yawn

The worst part of it is, I saw a small glimmer of hope hidden in there. A tiny piece that screamed “HEY THERE IS A GOOD MOVIE IN HERE!” but it was shouted down by the cookie cutter and generally generic modern day horror tone that goes for shocks over substance. To me it felt like the very essence of a modern day cash in, a movie made purely for the sake of trying to grab some quick money and then run for the hills only to come back down later to double and triple dip blu ray and dvd.

I’m sure this will get lots of praise and attention from fans just because they are so evil dead starved they will eat up anything they can. Even a plate of wet shit and then ask for more. If you have been in a well for days without food even a bucket of fried chicken livers will look like the most delicious food in the world and you will swallow it whole.

And much like you the fact raimi and campbell have endorsed it means nothing to me. Raimi and campbell produced the movie. What producer is going to say “Hey I’m producing this film and it sucks, don’t watch it”? None that’s who. Unless you’re lloyd kaufman or primus. But taking the word of people who are financially invested in this movie is stupid and downright ignorant of the fact movies are a business.

So I will go see the movie and I will hope that the end product turns out to be more than the teaser suggests. I would really like to enjoy this movie but I have severe reservations about it. Sadly whenever I see a new horror movie anymore I tend to go into it with the mindset that it is going to be shit because modern horror has trained me to assume everything is shit until it proves otherwise.

Glad to see you updated this thing by the way. I always enjoy your commentary.