Today, younger generations may know Sam Raimi as the man behind the Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire. But before he gave web head his first decent set of movies (say what you will about 3, Venom was pretty cool), he made a name for himself in horror, the most popular of which were his "The Evil Dead" flicks.
A re-make of the first was given the green light not too long ago, with Raimi stepping down from director of his fan favorite, and taking on the role of producer alongside Bruce Campbell, who once played the hero of the "Dead" series, taking out deadites with his chainsaw hand.
Rami recently spoke with Collider, where he shared how the re-make is faring, and what fans can look forward to.
"Well, I always thought that The Evil Dead was a little campfire story that you tell at a camp to kids to scare them at night. But, I don't think anybody thought it was a beautifully produced, theatrical experience. It was shot in 16mm, all the effects were done for a quarter, and I always thought it could be done in a big screen movie type way that was really high quality with photographic effects. It could still be just as gritty, but it could be done in stereo and not just mono, and it could be done in 35mm versus 16mm. There were a lot of ways to improve it. There could be much better writing than I was capable of, at the time, as an 18-year-old kid writing that screenplay. And honestly, the directing could be a lot better, and the characterizations could be better. I was very happy with it, but it was something that was crudely done and I thought deserved re-exploration. I thought it would be fun and, in fact, it has turned out to be a tremendous amount of fun because it's like an old melody that you write and you've brought in this really great, cool, young, hip jazz musician, and he's riffing on it and showing you places it could go that you never dreamed. It's very exciting for me."
What will it be rated? Well, "It's really bloody. It's so bloody, it will make your head spin. I've seen almost all the dailies and they're really going for it. It's gonna be grisly and intense and non-stop. Definitely R. Maybe worse."
While I'm sad that Campbell won't be reprising his role, I'm still excited to see "The Evil Dead," which has a release date of April 12, 2013.