Exactly. The remake had zombies that paused for dramatic effect.
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Evil Dead (2013) is the best horror "remake" ever made
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Exactly. The remake had zombies that paused for dramatic effect.
This.
Evil Dead remake fell super flat and is not worth your time.
I'm not crazy about the blob remake tbh. The effects are great, but the story is a little too hokey for its own good and kills off potentially interesting characters faster than it can introduce them.
Two other good and better ones. The remake of Dawn of the Dead was also surprisingly good. Savini did a good job with Night, too.
The best thing about the remake are the practical effects and the ungodly amount of blood spilled in the film. It's kind of amazing
But yeah, it has a jarring disjointed tone. Sometimes it wants to super grim and serious, other times wanting to be darkly comic over-the-top style of the original. The tones never really mesh and it hurts the overall film
But yeah, it has a jarring disjointed tone. Sometimes it wants to super grim and serious, other times wanting to be darkly comic over-the-top style of the original. The tones never really mesh and it hurts the overall film
Horror and comedy are two of the hardest genres to pull off, let alone do them well. Horrorcomedies are trying to do both at once.
My thoughts on the movie when I rewatched it in October. The original Evil Dead remains my favorite of the series
New Zealand seems to have an amazing knack for them. Braindead, Housebound, and What We Do In The Shadows are all some of the best horror-comedies I've seen. I remember enjoying Black Sheep as well
I agree with multiple other posters in that I think there are good arguments to be made for both The Fly and The Thing (the former being my personal fav).
The latest Evil Dead is quite good, but...
I'm with Rassilon here.
Edit: I forgot about the 80's The Blob remake!
The latest Evil Dead is quite good, but...
I'm with Rassilon here.
Edit: I forgot about the 80's The Blob remake!
Evil Dead 2 is not a remake. They couldn't secure the rights to the footage of the first film so they created a recap of the 1st with a bunch of new actors and had to reshoot bunch of scenes, so it came off odd to start how it did and confused folks, but it was always a sequel.
The Thing, The Fly, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Evil Dead is ok, but it doesn't sniff the greatness of the big three. Quite honestly, it doesn't even come close to the original Evil Dead, or its sequel for that matter.
I was impressed by the Maniac remake a few years back, I need to revisit it to see how it holds up.
Evil Dead is ok, but it doesn't sniff the greatness of the big three. Quite honestly, it doesn't even come close to the original Evil Dead, or its sequel for that matter.
I was impressed by the Maniac remake a few years back, I need to revisit it to see how it holds up.
But it's not even that good of a movie...
People's preference for Snyder's version over the original flat out triggers me.
It is known.
People's preference for Snyder's version over the original flat out triggers me.
The Evil Dead REmake has really grown on me over the years. It's really good.
The Thing or The Fly are the best horror remakes though. Night of The Living Dead and The Hills Have Eyes are incredibly underrated.
The Thing or The Fly are the best horror remakes though. Night of The Living Dead and The Hills Have Eyes are incredibly underrated.
You fucked up by saying it was "the best" instead of just making a thread about how cool it is. Now 95% of the replies are about other movies. Way to go OP - time to reboot this thread :)
Loved the movie. Really wild and good time.
Loved the movie. Really wild and good time.
The thread has gotten off track with the (correct) assertion of the superiority of The Fly and The Thing. But the '13 Evil Dead is pretty good. Great gore and practical effects and Jane Levy is awesome. Wish they could've made another, though Ash vs Evil Dead turned out kinda fun anyway.
Don't Breathe is good too, no idea why they're doing a sequel though.
Don't Breathe is good too, no idea why they're doing a sequel though.
Agh I need to rewatch brain dead. That movie is so good
While I think The Fly (1986) is the greatest live action film of all time, and therefore best remake... Evil Dead (2013) comes close.
Evil Dead (2013) has my favorite cinematography in all of cinema, has PERFECT tone and pacing, and a fantastic story with one of the best endings in any work of art. It's easily a 10/10 masterpiece and infinitely rewatchable. Oh and best in the series, easily.
Evil Dead (2013) has my favorite cinematography in all of cinema, has PERFECT tone and pacing, and a fantastic story with one of the best endings in any work of art. It's easily a 10/10 masterpiece and infinitely rewatchable. Oh and best in the series, easily.
To this day I am baffled that anyone likes this movie. I saw it in theaters and thought it was absolutely dreadful, like, approaching avatar the last air bender levels of bad. It started off decent enough but descended into pretty by the numbers horror movie slush. Super disappointing in every way. Yuck
No seriously, the praise this movie gets is baffling.
No seriously, the praise this movie gets is baffling.
The Thing
The Fly
The Blob
Yes, The Blob.
I remember watching this as an 8 year old and....
Loving all the horrific death scenes.
Whats wrong with me?
Same. What I found most impressive with The Evil Dead was how confident it felt, in its film making and cinematography, in the go-for-broke imagery and blood and gore. The "people encounter bad things in a cabin in the woods" story is a well-trodden one now but Evil Dead's onslaught of horrors and atmosphere elevates it above most others.
The escalation and relentless pacing is just wonderful. We get a quick sketch of the characters and their personalities and then they're dropped into the movie's bloody gauntlet that gets more intense and wild as the cast shrinks. By the end, the evil is so pervasive that the cabin itself becomes tainted.
One hell of an entertaining movie, up there with Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a work of low-budget horror that's punching way above its weight class and is far more effective than its imitators would be
The Thing isn't really a remake. It's a different take on the source material.
So yeah, I might give this one to Evil Dead '13. It's an excellent movie.
So yeah, I might give this one to Evil Dead '13. It's an excellent movie.
Also, I was actually surprised at how much i disliked the 3rd movie compared to the first two. It's not bad but it's wasn't even a horror movie anymore. They went a bit too far with the comedy
More so than The Blob? Blob perfectly nails its balance of wholesome 50s horror homage and utterly horrific gore, while Evil Dead 2013's tone feels all over the place and never confident in exactly what kind of movie it wants to be.
The Blob deserves extra points IMO just for taking such a silly movie monster and making it terrifying
Haven't seen The Blob, actually. I'll have to check it out.
I disagree that Evil Dead was all over the place though. It's a pretty straight-forward horror movie with a little bit of camp. Not unlike the original film (but very unlike Evil Dead 2).
Haven't seen The Blob remake (I know, it's long overdue) but The Thing and The Fly are king when it comes to horror remakes. The Evil Dead remake was just awful. I had to apologize to my brother for dragging him to the theater to see it. I think I may have paid for his dinner to make things right.
It's okay that you feel that way, but there's not much there to respond to. It brought a dead series from an afterthought back into modern horror and made triple (~$107m) any other movie in the series to that point (and still is the top). So... unless you wanted Leatherface 2: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4: Electric Boogaloo, not sure what you were looking for.
The first Texas Chainsaw remake was decent, but the series that followed was not anywhere close to decent. It was cringeworthy.
I wanted a good movie. Not a movie about Texas that opens with 'Sweet Home Alabama', cribs from Deliverance, features a pro wrestler Leatherface, and worst of all removes the cannibalism. They didn't understand their source.
I don't care how much money it made.
These three. And that reminds me, I need to do The Thing and The Blob on my horror film podcast. My friend and I already discussed The Fly and it's original film. Thanks for reminding me!The Thing
The Fly
The Blob
Yes, The Blob.
And that's fine, but... after TCM2, Leatherface: TCM3, and TCM: The Next Generation, do you really think it was a step down? Do you like any of those? The TCM remake brought the series back into modern consciousness. My personal opinion is that TCM: The Beginning was a step down, TC3D was a travesty and Leatherface is an interesting little sidenote. But none of those are worse than what TCM: The Next Generation 2 would have been which is some campy direct-to-video nonsense.
I'm a big fan too and it's a sad state currently, but that remake is the biggest bump the series has had since the original. I think it's hard to argue that point.
Personally as a fan of a horror series (Elm Street and F13 and Halloween included), I'll take something that's not perfect but keeps the series alive for the next round as opposed to the perfect nothing that is in my brain but doesn't exist. Jason X included.
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I liked the first one a lot, also always enjoy Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and liked the remake. Leatherface was horrible and so was TCM: The Next Generation.
OP dun goofed. Straight up missing like 3-4 remakes that rank in the classics of horror cinema. We forgive you, OP, go watch those remakes.
Also, yes, Evil Dead (2013) is actually pretty solid.
Also, yes, Evil Dead (2013) is actually pretty solid.
Excluding the already said obvious ones, I think dawn of the dead and the hills have eyes are great remakes too.