I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. It was a fantastic exorcism. The ending turns the apocalypse into something personal and real, so close and visceral, you leave the theater wanting a shower. You don’t need a movie spread out across the continents. You don’t need to show millions of people dying in cataclysmic tsunamis or alien attacks or viruses. Just give us one character that can be our surrogate in the film. What she endures, we endure. Isolate her; descend her into hell; let us go with her. This is how you do the apocalypse-by the end, it’s just the devil, Mia and you.
Well, i`m not a horror-head but i`ve seen a lot in my life. For me, Evil dead is the best horror movie ever made. Maybe one of the best movies ever. It`s so perfect in every way. Story, picture, sound...everything is so amazing. And with the old evil dead seen in the 80`s in my mind it has such a great meaning.
What happened was they tried to develop a massive $100m+ AoD sequel directed by Sam and starring Bruce but no studio would finance it without a "big" star attached (like Johnny Depp) but Sam said no, it has to star Bruce. So they thought, well lets go the opposite way, a low budget remake of little old ED1. Its amazing that, after all these years, these guys are still hard core guerrilla movie makers who will find a way no matter what. A big movie studio would never of tried so hard to make this movie. And even if the did they'd just screw it up. Big corps have no passion, its all about pleasing huge investors with huge profits. Now you know why Bruce lambasts Hollywood. They deserve it.
The reboot was just as polarizing but not for its over the top horror. Horror fans loved it, but ED fans disliked it because they wanted Sam directing and Bruce reprising his role as Ash. They'll get their wish when the new TV show, "Ash vs Evil Dead" premieres on Starz in the fall.
The Evil Dead (1981) is my favorite horror film of all time. I LOVE Sam, Bruce and Rob, and the new people involved seem nice enough, but I'm sorry... everyone involved with the remake failed miserably. There was nothing good about it. At all. Terrible movie across the board.
This movie was both critically and financially one of the best horror films in recent years , so your comment is factually wrong. Just because you did not like it that doesnt mean that the movie or anyone in the movie failed. Most people loved the 2013 Evil Dead
Popular =/= correct. Just because a movie did well doesn't mean it's good. After three viewings, I can't find one single aspect of this movie that isn't pure garbage.
