Look out, ol’ Raimi’s back…

Updated on December 20, 2007 By Ken Begg 6 Comments

One great piece of confirmed news and one even greater possibility on the Sam Raimi front.

First, Raimi’s making his first horror movie for a while:  “After helming three  “Spider-Man” films, Sam Raimi return to his genre roots to direct “Drag Me to Hell,” a supernatural thriller he wrote with his brother, Ivan Raimi.The morality tale about the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse will go into production early next year…Raimis penned the script well before the formation of Ghost House. It was originally written under the title “The Curse” and completed right after the siblings collaborated on 1992’s “Army of Darkness” which Sam Raimi directed.

“Sam calls it a ‘spook-a-blast,’ a wild ride with all the chills and spills that ‘Evil Dead’ delivered, without relying on the excessive violence of that film,” [partner Robert] Tapert said. “When one has done three very expensive movies, they get used to eating caviar. Sam will have to ponder what it means to come down from the mountaintop for a moment.”

Meanwhile, the same article implies that Raimi is quite possibly going to direct the recently announced The Hobbit movie(s) to be produced by Peter Jackson.  Aside from Jackson himself, or maybe Del Toro, it’s hard to think of a better possible director.

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  • The Rev. D.D.

    Wow, Raimi doing the Hobbit movie?…him and Jackson collaborating…the possibilities…they excite and intrigue me.
    Although after seeing “Pan’s Labyrinth,” I think del Toro could perhaps do even more…still, I’m not going to begrudge Raimi if he gets the job.

    I notice you didn’t point out this little nugget…

    “Ghost House is prepping a remake of ‘Evil Dead,’ the 1981 horror film that was Raimi’s first breakout hit as a director.”

    BRAIN…ANGRY…AGAIN…
    What is the point? Seriously? Haven’t we learned from the various slick, modern remakes of “Halloween,” “Black Christmas,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Hill Have Eyes” that fancy effects, actresses cast more for their looks than their acting ability, and headache-inducing editing are not going to capture the magic those down-and-dirty, unpretentious originals had? Or am I giving Hollywood too much credit?
    Even if you could get Bruce Almighty to come back and reprise his role, I don’t think it could be better except in the special effects department, and those do not a movie make. And since I’m betting Bruce won’t be in it, it’s automatically inferior.

  • “Haven’t we learned from the various slick, modern remakes of “Halloween,” “Black Christmas,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Hill Have Eyes” that fancy effects, actresses cast more for their looks than their acting ability, and headache-inducing editing are not going to capture the magic those down-and-dirty, unpretentious originals had? Or am I giving Hollywood too much credit?”

    No, you’re just missing the point. They make money. Maybe if better movie would make more money, they’d worry about it, but audiences see these things, and long as they do, they’ll keep cranking ’em out.

  • They already remade Evil Dead. I believe it was called…Evil Dead 2?

  • The Rev. D.D.

    Did most of those make money? I recall TCM doing so, but did the rest of those?
    That’s so frickin’ depressing if true…and also means I need to turn my rage against the movie-going public if they’re supporting this crap.

  • It’s almost impossible to lose money on films like these, because the budgets are small and horror and comedies *always* do well on the home video / rental market. The latter because those two genres are the ‘compromise’ movies when two or more people are renting a film. This also explains why the line of really bad SNL comedies (Ladies’ Man, Coneheads, It’s Pat, Night at the Roxey or whatever, etc.) continued to roll out. If you make the film cheap enough, and all these were, you make money, and every once in a while you make a very large amount of money.

  • The Rev. D.D.

    I’ve had several people tell me “Night at the Roxbury” was actually pretty funny. However, one of those people also told me “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist” was funny, which makes me exceedingly dubious.

    Anyway, you’re right about all of that, Mr. Begg. Just makes me sad that’s the way it is right now. The constant recycling wouldn’t be so bad if they’d do something fresh and interesting with the ideas, but apparently people will shell out for lukewarm hash so I guess there’s no point in trying as far as Hollywood’s concerned.