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Saw the trailer. Garbage. I wont even post it. Discuss this travesty if you will.

The only trailer I found had a minute ad and a broken video, so can't comment on that part, except objective lameness on the part of springboard.

Re: the concept, without the low budget or the Ash, even with Raimi and Campbell producing, it sounds like they've missed the mark.

Having heard Bruce Campbell's take on films, there's a glimmer of hope, but that's mostly because I consider myself an optimist, not because anything has warranted said hope...

Personally, I hated the original and part 2, yet somehow Army of Darkness is one of the greatest films of all time.

The low budgetness killed it for me. What can I say I like stuff to look good. Hopefully the new one won't suck. A little worried that there's no Ash. Would be nice if there was at least a tiny cameo, like Bruce in the Spiderman movies

Bah... who cares...

I'd still watch it.

Gimmie some sequels baby!

Loved the originals. Probably give a remake a miss...

Valete,

JohnS

These kind of films are so often 'better' on a low budget.
You don't need high production values for horror films, and especially zombie type films. Not saying a big budget zombie film won't work, but from my limited interest in this genre (zombie, and horror on the whole) the low budget stuff seems to be a lot better. And there is a lot more low budget horror.

Red Band (meaning very graphic) here.

Because of the extremely graphic nature I won't do an imbedded video, but be warned that it looks quite gruesome and OTT on the gore. I personally think it looks like a hell of a ride. Each Evil Dead film (barring Army of Darkness of course) is a remake with a little different emphasis each time on either the horror or the jet black humor. Budget had a lot to do with it, but they also used the conventions of horror films of their time and amped them up, and it doesn't seem that different here. It is less than a minute and thirty seconds and focuses more on the horror side, but Sam Raimi helped write the script (he and Bruce Campbell are producers on the film) so I'm sure there will also be some dark humor as well. It seems a bit more infused with the grittiness of the original so it is more horror and less overt humor than ED 2, but you never know.

I dunno...it doesn't look like evil dead to me, you know? It looks too serious. When I think evil dead, I think of this sort of grisly and dark, but at the same time campy and goofy sort of film.
Then again, I am more familar with Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, which introduced the whole "humor" aspect of it. At least they have the tree scene. Can't have an evil dead remake without that.

Also, was that Johnny Depp?

I think, like with Drag Me To Hell, Raimi is getting back to some of his earlier horror films. The original Evil Dead wasn't as overtly funny as the second one, and it seems this is going back to the core premise. It is probably for the best not to try and emulate, or recreate, the humor from ED2, as I just can see it going well. I imagine there will still be some grim laughs in it, though. Bruce Campbell said that when they were working on the original the thinking was to make a film that was "Keep the pace fast and furious, and once the horror starts, never let up. 'The gorier the merrier' became our prime directive", and this trailer seems to keep in that frame of mind.

Drag Me to Hell was pretty good.

Looks badass, here's hoping Bruce makes a special cameo.

Tree raper. Must have tree rape.