Sam Raimi is keen to talk about his upcoming creepy thriller The Possession, which he produced and stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick. That film opens August 31, but questions are frequently turning to his Evil Dead remake which Fede Alvarez is directing and looks set to bring a fresh spin on his horror classic.
Raimi was asked about how the film will differ from the original; what improvements there will be, and what fans can expect from this updating which is bound to have more than just a Necronomicon and flesh eating Zombies in common.
Q: One of the great things about yourEvil Dead movies is that you weren’t afraid to show blood and gore. Will the remake be as bloody, or is it more of a PG-13 release?
SAM RAIMI: 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.
Q: Does that mean it will have to be R-rated then?
Raimi: Definitely R. Maybe worse.
Q: How involved were you with the film, and what can fans look forward to with the remake?
RAIMI: Well, I always thought that Evil Deadwas 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.
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