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Given the huge interest in the Evil Dead Remake, a "why is there no Evil Dead Remake section" section has been added to outline the reasoning behind this. Should you want information, you can read a little more on the Evil Dead 4? page which covers various rumours & interviews leading up to the release, and check out the links section to browse other sites.
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A few people have been in contact about the The Evil Dead 2012 Remake, and if the site will be expanded to encompass this. Well for the moment at least I'm afraid it won't be included.
Upon first seeing the bootleg Comic-Con footage, then the HD red-band trailer, I have to say my first impressions are that I'm really not keen. Not at all. Maybe it's just 'original-ist' protectionism on my part, or maybe I saw the original at exactly the right time in life and it had a big impact on me, but I feel that take the title away, and you just have another stereotypical horror film with scene after scene of ultra-realistic and downright unpleasant violence which is now part & parcel of everyday horror film-making, something which was brought into the mainstream by the lucrative Hostel and Saw series, and even further back with European films like Haute Tension and Irreversible.
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It feels edgy to watch films like that, to push your own tolerance, but films in this range are hardly a 'fun rollercoaster theatrical experience', they just exist to push the boundaries with each one having to go that little bit further to differentiate itself. A little further down that path and you're watching very questionable material such as A Serbian Film, Pig and The Bunny Game.
There are parallels to Zack Snyder's 2004 Dawn Of The Dead remake of George A Romero's 1978 original. There was nothing wrong with that remake from a technical standpoint, in actual fact it surpassed the original in virtually every professional & technical film-making aspect. So why didn't it come within a million miles of being as an enjoyable experience as the original? Maybe their carefully crafted heart... the soul that both the Dawn Of The Dead & The Evil Dead originals had was simply missing from the by-the-numbers faceless remakes. Sam Raimi has admitted that he feels somewhat embarrassed by the original now, something he made clear with the plethora of A/V fixes & tweaks to the 2010 Anchor Bay The Evil Dead Blu-Ray release. Maybe this remake was a cathartic experience, something which allowed him to 'fix' everything he thought was wrong with his original film. To me that's like remarking that Picasso's paintings would be much improved if the perspective wasn't all over the place. By that reasoning, a photo of a chair would be so much better than Van Gogh's painting; 'Chair'. The Evil Dead original is akin to a work of art; loved especially because of all it's little imperfections, not despite them. That's what sets it apart from so many other by-the-numbers horror films made before or since.
I'm sure many fans will rave about The Evil Dead Remake, claiming it far better than the 'kinda crappy' original, with very brisk business at the box office and on home video, but will there be new legions of fans not yet born moved to set up devoted fansites in thirty years from now? We shall see...
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