Fede Alvarez’s remake of Evil Dead starring no one you’ve heard of opens April 2013 and the first teaser dropped at New York Comic Con over the weekend, a bootleg of which just hit the web and you can watch below (quickly, it’ll probably get pulled off faster than one of your mom’s houseguests). I’m as skeptical of remakes as anyone, but Sam Raimi reportedly hand picked Alvarez for the job himself. Also, no CGI:
How much CG is in the movie?
Fede Alvarez: We didn’t do any CGI in the movie. There’s no CGI in the movie. Everything you will see is real, which was really demanding. This was a very long shoot, 70 days of shooting at night. There’s a reason people use CGI it’s cheaper and faster, I hate that. We researched a lot of magic tricks and illusion tricks. [Like] how you would make someone’s arm disappear.
There’s a moment where a girl goes through her arm with a kitchen knife — spoiler alert. And we knew since day one the camera would start wide, she goes for the knife, you see her arm, she starts going for it. And you think they’re going to cut away at any moment, but we don’t. She just goes for it and screams and the arm breaks and falls. So we really pushed the boundaries there, trying to create those illusions… It has a particularly bloody ending. The last scene is just…I want it to be the bloodiest scene, ever. And I think it is. [i09]
He also says that the raping tree bit is “way more terrible than the original.” He’s saying all the right things (I’m a sucker for trees that rape), but the best thing about Sam Raimi is that he always seems to embrace the silliness of whatever he’s making. Whenever people remake movies, especially horror, all they ever seem to think about is “BRO, HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS EVEN MORE BADASS?!?” But really, the challenge is capturing the goofyness. I was back in Fresno over the weekend, and everyone’s t-shirts had pictures of dragons choking each other out on them. I promise, guys, we’re already pretty well stocked on “badass.”
It starts out a little blurry, but it evens out. Hopefully they’ll put the official version online soon. Also, I think the villain is that Afghan girl from National Geographic:
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Well, that was fast.
I just saw it. Came, too
I wonder if it will be darker and grittier.
Some day, a studio will get smart and do a “reboot” where all they do is take the original movie and run it thru an Instagram-like filter to make it darker and grittier, then re-release it to theatres as a “new film” to great acclaim.
I’m glad someone is remaking this film because there are no copies of the original left anywhere in the world and it is impossible to see and only a few people are still alive who saw it and remember it.
Was the villain wearing a burkha?
It’s still there actually. Pretty brave of them to hint at the Tree Rape in a teaser trailer. Well played guys, well played.
DUDE THIS LOOKS AWESOME
“We didn’t do any CGI in the movie. There’s no CGI in the movie.” Damn, that must have been a tricky camera move, following a drop of blood falling at the :54 mark.
Raging boner
You made it to Fresno this weekend? Did you see your friend? I take it your damn Studebaker didn’t break down again. *ties rope to ceiling fan, fixes noose to neck, jumps off coffee table, crashes to ground, ceiling rips open, fan falls on groin*
Wow, we are one sick culture. Hooray!
You want an Evil Dead trailer just gif the before and after pics of that Afghan girl.
It’s way too slick and TCM remakey. I preferred the reboot called Dead by Dawn that had that thin guy with the chin in it. Whatever happened to him?
Woooooo Fresno shout-out! *looks around*… *rips up Fresno State BA degree*
I’ve heard of Lou Taylor-Pucci, jus’ saying. I liked Thumbsucker.
The phrase “spoiler alert” doesn’t work when talking about a movie remake.
That’s not true. Everyone knows Shiloh Fernandez as the lead from Deadgirl and Jane Levy as Emma Stone.
Wait, this stars Mitch Hedberg and i’m supposed to believe theres no CGI?
To say Sam Raimi ‘hand picked him for this project’ is a little disingenuous as is this idiot Fede being against CGI when the short he did that got morons in the studios falling over each other to hire him was predicated entirely on CGI!! and no plot! Sam Raimi actually picked him to direct an alien invasion movie that they both were prepping and it wasn’t until that went on hold (as seemingly EVERY Sam Raimi in production project does) that conversation turned to remaking Evil Dead. Fede took the lead because he doesn’t have any original ideas and everyone else’s eyes turned to dollar signs. As Bruce Campbell unwittingly said the other day in an interview while trying to plug this mistake and convince us all we should see it “The remake was like a wart it just kind of grew on us” I for one don’t want to see a film that I, firstly, love and secondly have seen a million times redone almost shot for shot but just a little more “hardcore” and “gritty”. Good horror is about the ideas behind the gore and not the gore itself, when they are 2nd hand ideas I don’t care anymore.