Why mess with this one? Oh yeah, $$$. And if you haven't seen it, the Blu Ray edition is stellar, they transfered it really well, movie has never looked this good.
The original is a classic, goes without saying, but this one seems even more on the gore side instead of shock/scary/creepy. Anyway, kinda looks like they stuck to the blueprint, nothing in the trailer suggests twists or anything different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvDLWlxxcak
Why is a huge question... I mean, the original movies didn't have some fantastically brilliant plot or anything, it was all about the lo-fi techniques and the combination of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.
No question, lol, I guess I was just a little negative above because the trailer was disappointing. I was hoping for I dunno, something not so 'remake' like I suppose. Same story, updated visuals, but we'll see, maybe they're saving some twists for the theater and simply keeping the trailer loaded with the familiar stuff. I'll still go see it, looks good enough.
I've never been a fan of any films within the "horror" genre. I just don't get it and really can't see the point. This is especially true of zombie movies and vampire movies, I really don't get it.... Millions of others do I know, but it's not for me.
I'm with ya Jon, I'm not a big horror/gore fan either, don't find them 'scary' at all, they simply try to turn your stomach with disturbing visuals/scenero's, etc. I much prefer 'moody' type scary flicks that force you to ask questions and so on. The original Evil Dead just happens to have a certain charm to it and an especially great sense of claustraphobia (when the main character is alone in the cabin - which is much of the film). I don't get that vibe from this trailer at all. But I'll cross my fingers there's more to it than the gore-fest they're hinting at.
Plus Evil Dead II just makes you roll around laughing. A thing of real beauty. I am a fan of the horror genre, but not for the scares... there's just some really excellent filmmaking that goes on in those films. I could talk your ears off about 1968, when Rosemary's Baby and Night of The Living Dead both turned film on its head... And the original Halloween is an absolute masterpiece. Then there are people like Dario Argento who just make weird stuff, and Peter Jackson who made the kind of amazing Dead Alive and Heavenly Creatures before all his movies started to be about Hobbits... horror's got a real lineage in film and it's one of those genres where things get discovered, refined, and perfected before they start to appear in mainstream movies...
Pretty strong showing so far. :)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_evil_dead_2013/
Not bad for horror. I also saw some good interviews with Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell that made me think it might be worth seeing. I'll check it out.