Evil Dead (2013) - Part 1

[redhawk23]

The duck tape was great.

 

[redhawk23]

Which makes it all the better. They were inexperienced but earnest and really did try their best. The fact it sometimes came off as funny or goofy was just a result of their attempts. Despite that, they still managed to make a decent horror movie. Army of Darkness truly aimed for humor in an almost parody of itself but I still like all three movies.

I'm just saying that humor was not necessarily their intent and Alvarez recognized that. He's spoken to the effect on several occasions. I mean if it doesn't fit you're tastes I understand but its not really a matter of the new film really lacking something the original had or not living up to the spirit or whatever.

 

[Teelie]

I saw the humor but it was not really the kind of humor the originals had. It felt like it was more a let's make a gory movie and call it Evil Dead feel. It completely left the whole Deadite angle as a vague plot line. There was little to nothing explaining them beyond the evil coming from the ground and then Mia going to town on it at the end. No explanation really or definition. Sub them out with zombies and it would be much the same.

You can call some bits of it black humor which would be right but the humor just didn't translate well.

If you don't like that then that's not my problem just as it isn't your problem I found it didn't have the right feel to it.

 

[redhawk23]

Evil Dead 1 & 2 had literal jets of bile and fake blood, the new film just carried through on that with production values.

 

[Teelie]

Which was mildly comical but it was too graphically realistic. I'm not saying it should have been slapstick but the detail was in the make it as real as possible and don't hold back kind of film making that's become common place. In the right dose it is fine but when everything is done to just make it gory for the sake of gory it makes the film a special effects fest at the cost of the scene IMO.

 

[redhawk23]

I just don't see it as any different than what the first film attempted to do.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

I also felt the gore was a hair excessive but it's just personal preference. In general I lean towards 'less is more' but that doesn't fit very well with the tropes of this particular series. They get major bonus points for practical effects over fakey cgi, however.

 

[Teelie]

Definitely. I'm glad they went practical effects over CG. Too many movies make that jump now and over use the CG. That they did what they did with practical effects was amazing but it was more than I would have liked.

 

[zeroapoc]

And she still manages to look hot in all of these scene's despite the crazy **** happening to her.

No kiddng. I'm even attracted to Deadite Mia in some strange way.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I thought there was quite a bit of humor, it was just very dark humor. Mia cutting her tongue in half and then frenching the one girl seemed more humorous than horrifying. Same with that one guy with his eight billion nail gun wounds still managing to function at all and how Mia can casually rip her own hand off that's pinned under a truck. It didn't get to ED2 levels of silly, but it did seem tongue in cheek towards the end (I mean come on, instead of passing out right after self-mutilation, Mia rams her stump into a chainsaw and delivers the killing blow).

Although I agree the deadites in the movie came across a little too zombie-like for the most part.

Yeah, and I cant help but laugh my head off when she shoves the chainsaw into the demons face at the end as well, not in a bad way, just at how awesome ED-like it was.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Too graphic? Excessive gore?

What a bunch of *****es.

 

[<(o_o)>]

Too graphic? Excessive gore?

What a bunch of *****es.

Raimi made great use of different colors of gore in the original & sequels & if there is sequel to the remake, I hope that there will be some green & black & blue gore to go along with all the red gore.t: Also more creatures & deadites would be great.

How large of an area can the Book of the dead incantations effect? The cabin is supposed to be isolated but if what if other people were out in the woods when the incantations were read & became possessed also & made there way to a populated area, would the infected simply turn human again the further away they got from the book of the dead or would they be able to spread the evil & transform others as if it was a bite from a zombie?

 

[Teelie]

Too graphic? Excessive gore?

What a bunch of *****es.

I've gotten soft in my not quite yet middle age.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Too graphic? Excessive gore?

What a bunch of *****es.

Tell me about it, if anything how graphic and gory the movie was just made me enjoy it even more!

 

[Lord]

Didn't watch the movie yet, was it any good?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Didn't watch the movie yet, was it any good?

I personally think its superb, I like the old movies as well. Though I am not a huge fan of them or anything.

 

[Tanin]

Didn't watch the movie yet, was it any good?

It is fairly generic in plot and graphic as all hell. Everything Sam Raimi tried to do in the first film. A disappointment for some because it lacked the humor of the sequels.

All in all a great remake (or sequel) that stays true to the spirit of the original Evil Dead film.

I personally loved it as did my Girlfriend.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I thought it was good. The gore was excessive. But, it was over the top and I liked it. And it didn't seem realistic at all, so it worked for me. Half of what I saw looked like people would have passed out and died from either shock or massive blood loss in a matter of seconds. But, I kinda appreciated it for that.

I think I might have enjoyed if the deadite had been a bit more talkative, because I liked how ****ed up and funny they could be.

That post credit scene was...groovy.

 

[chelo248]

I would just like to say that the music in this film is awesome.

http://vimeo.com/70786184

 

[chelo248]

Off topic (?) :

'Evil Dead's' Fede Alvarez Sells Top Secret Sci-Fi Project to MRC (Exclusive)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/evil-deads-fede-alvarez-sells-595530

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Well, I suppose it means we wont be seeing ED2/5 for a few years, I wonder if this new project is based on his short-film Panic Attack?

 

[66 Face]

I just don't see it as any different than what the first film attempted to do.

I kind of saw it like a hollow husk of the original Evil Dead. Kind of like Dawn of the Dead was to the original.

I like that they kept it a full blown horror movie but it just lacked the mood and creep factor of the original. I also didn't like how the humans looked once the demons entered them. The Evil Dead demons have a very specific look. I think that should have been kept in.

 

[PyroChamber]

It's too bad we didn't get what the Japanese got...

 

[Kane52630]

that's what you call a packaging.

 

[Matt Mortem]

That blu ray package is awesome! Why don't we ever get cool **** like that?