Remakes are a funny old game, as I've remarked before, most recently when stating that a flick which would make for a good remake is Drive-In Massacre. One of the biggest problems with remakes that I find, however, is that they can never live up to the vibe that the original exudes. The scope of the remake is far larger, the production design is through-the-roof comparatively, and in-place of discovering a long-established classic during your formative years with fellow-minded classmates, you've got the big marketing push with the inevitable appearance at a Comic-Con.
This brings me to the 2013 remake of The Evil Dead –
as first shown to us at the 2012 New York Comic-Con – and it has my fanboy mind
all over the place. I'm a huge admirer of the original movie (which I first
saw aged 14 after buying a VHS copy – which was at the time still severely cut
by the BBFC – from my local post office), so the first mention a while back
of the film being remade, sent we horror fans into a right old tizzy. The
announcement that Diablo Cody would be heading up screenwriting duties was
controversial enough in itself, but on the other hand – under the banner of
Ghost House Pictures – the original creators of the The Evil Dead were
actively involved, and had picked an unknown (Fede Alvarez) for directing duties (an offer
that no sane aspiring filmmaker would turn down).
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