The evil dead (2013)
It does not help that The Evil Dead trilogy holds a hallowed place within the American horror cinema canon. However, the mere presence of original cast and crew in making a remake or in continuing a series of films does not always necessitate a quality film-just look at the conflicted, at best, reviews that accompanied the second wave of Star Wars films even though Lucas was still attached to all of them.
Some of that reaction was blunted by the knowledge of Sam Raimi’s (the original’s director) and Bruce Campbell’s (the original’s lead actor) role in the development of the remake and their overwhelming approval of the finished product. There was much-justifiable-concern over the very rumor of such an endeavor, let alone the reaction that it would receive once it became a real, finished product.
#The evil dead (2013) movie
Last weekend I ventured into the dark, sacred space of the local movie theater to see the remake of one of the first horror films that caught my attention as a teenager and sparked my general interest in horror cinema, The Evil Dead (1981). – Joel Kinnaman (co-star on AMC’s The Killing) on remaking Robocop That’s how you can break new ground by rethinking something that’s already been done. That’s what we do as human beings. We retell our favorite stories. That’s what we’ve done since we were sitting around campfires. It’s a part of the human spirit. It doesn’t have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.
If we weren’t doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I’m not saying that Robocop is Shakespeare, but it’s a way to … we’re retelling. I used to be like “Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?” But then, we do that all the time in the theater.