Comments on: Evil Dead IV: Don’t Hold Your Breath

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:39:57 +0000

Can’t argue with you there. I’ve heard the term “remake” bandied about in regards to “Evil Dead II” in the context of making essentially the same movie but with a bigger budget.

Vic

By: wha-?

wha-? — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:51:16 +0000

Actually, Evil Dead II wasn’t a remake of the first. The beginning did recap events from the first (ignoring all of Ash and Linda’s friends from the first), but it picks up right to where the first movie ends, when the evil force is rushing through the woods at Ash. From there on out its a completely original movie. In the first movie Ash never cut off his hand, or met Annie Knowby, or got sucked into a time vortex to end up in the year 1300AD. So, for the first 5 minutes or so, EDII is a remake of ED, but from then on out it is its own movie. So to me this qualifies as merely a sequel with a recap of the first movie at the beggining.

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 05:02:19 +0000

The only reason I’m not slamming the “Evil Dead” remake is because Campbell and Raimi are involved. And yes, you are correct, “Evil Dead II” was basically a remake of the first one.

Vic

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:07:13 +0000

Wasn’t Evil Dead 2 pretty much a remake? Do we need another one?

By: rukos

rukos — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:56:03 +0000

Evil Dead-er??? Doesn’t anyone aside from me see the irony in a remake of a highly original movie… okay, not very original, but in tone and style, quite different… Do we want this alongside the re-makes of old movies that shouldn’t have been… adapt more Lovecraft, leave what works, alone… sometimes…
(Batman Begins looks amazing, so not all remakes are by necessity bad)…