ROTTEN TOMATOES: De Laurentiises Bless "Evil Dead" Remake ... and Want More "Hannibal"

De Laurentiises Bless "Evil Dead" Remake ... and Want More "Hannibal"

by Fred Topel | February 01, 2007

Summary

Sam Raimi is a bona fide mogul now with his Ghost House Pictures studio producing horror movies while he's off making "Spider-Man" movies. Back in the day, he needed Dino De Laurentiis's help to make the third "Evil Dead" film, "Army of Darkness." Now that Raimi plans to remake his original "Evil Dead" through Ghost House, De Laurentiis thinks it's a great idea. Back to Article

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optic_85 writes:
on Feb 01 2007 08:07 PM

[b]Wow...[/b]
.....How does anyone think this is a good idea?! Evil Dead, with no Bruce?! I can see it all now....."Vin Diesel stars in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead"

.....Ugh! Bullshit!!!

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iheartbrucecampbell writes:
on Feb 01 2007 09:00 PM

just a good reason to re watch the original films....thats the way i try to look at it....thats not to say i dont still weep.....

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dracula68 writes:
on Feb 01 2007 09:33 PM

[b]Dear Mr. Raimi[/b]
For the love of God. DON'T DON'T DON'T!!!

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FaintDeftone writes:
on Feb 01 2007 10:15 PM

If Bruce Cambell isn't starring, then forget it.

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jfearins writes:
on Feb 02 2007 06:03 AM

Actually, if they need a new Ash, they can recruit the guy playing Ash in Evil Dead: The Musical (showing here in NYC). I've seen it and he's quite convincing.

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frogleg writes:
on Feb 02 2007 08:22 AM

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I've heard that's hilarious. I'd prefer they just make that into a film instead of remaking the original movie!

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ben_oblivion writes:
on Feb 02 2007 10:21 AM

[b]More proof of the oncoming apocalypse[/b]
It saddens me so much to see so many of my favorite movies being remade. The hitcher, the hills have eyes, now the birds, christ people come on. I showed the original evil dead at the theatre i work at halloween and it was a huge hit. With spiderman hopefully coming to an end in may why not re-release all the old evil deads and have raimi and campbell do a sequal, army of darkness lead into it perfectly...after he's done with bubba nosferatu, of course. Just more proof that the horror movie genre is dead, and cgi (and micheal bay) or what killed it.

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killermonkey8822 writes:
on Feb 03 2007 03:29 PM

what? there's an army of darkness director's cut.................well anyway i love the evil dead series there all classic films........but i still don't know if they could pull this off.........hannibal rising is something that just dosen't need to be.......manhunter and silence of the lambs were great horror movies but hannibal though better then most horror sequels wasan't really something that should have been either........so i think they should have just left it at silence of the lambs and manhunter instead of wasting their money on shitty sequels

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ossimer writes:
on Feb 08 2007 09:48 AM

I hate to say it, but the horror genre of movie is near-dead. Remakes and horrible, CGI-laden movies have taken the scare out of movies.....Honestly, I think video game horror is far scarier....

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sneppo writes:
on Feb 28 2007 05:58 PM

F*** this!

NO need.

He will turn it into every other mediocre remake horror movie that has been "regurgitated" over the last several years.

Try creating something new Sam, I'm sure you could have the ideas!!

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digbum writes:
on May 05 2007 05:17 PM

Amen to this whole thread. I actually remember the first Evil Dead as being scary for the time, as campy as it was. I've always felt that Evil Dead was Raimi's Psycho-- he thought it was a comedy but everyone got caught up in the horror, so he revised the story and remade it with more humor, and I think more success, in EDII. We don't need ED remade as Hostel or, god forbid, Starwars. And while Dino gets props for ED and Conan, I'll never forgive him for Dune...

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