{"id":2959,"date":"2004-11-18T07:15:58","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T23:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/18\/resurrecting-the-evil-dead\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:01:35","slug":"resurrecting-the-evil-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/18\/resurrecting-the-evil-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrecting the Evil Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9806,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www2.bloody-disgusting.com\\\/index.php?Show=2868&amp;Template=newsfull&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9807,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/6305841861\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/6305841861\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9808,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00000G3Q4\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310231159\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00000G3Q4\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00000G3Q4\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 16:43:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 08:50:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 08:24:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 07:27:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 15:17:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 15:17:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9809,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/comments.pl?sid=130173&amp;cid=10858793&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9810,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=04\\\/11\\\/18\\\/187218&amp;from=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=04\\\/11\\\/18\\\/187218&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The good news: the previously rumored &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/just_stop_alrea.html\" title=\"Just stop already\">Freddy vs.\u00a0Jason vs.\u00a0Ash<\/a>&#8216; is probably dead.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news: that&#8217;s because Raimi is <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.bloody-disgusting.com\/index.php?Show=2868&amp;Template=newsfull\" title=\"RAIMI REMAKING 'EVIL DEAD'\">remaking The Evil Dead<\/a> (bad enough) and will be letting someone else direct it (worse).<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t <em>anyone<\/em> just leave the good stuff alone and create more <em>new<\/em> good stuff, instead of constantly re-hashing old good stuff into new bad stuff? If they&#8217;re determined to avoid having to actually think hard enough to come up with something new, couldn&#8217;t they at least pick old movies that had promise but were actually bad (or, at least, could be measurably improved) to remake into something good?<\/p>\n<p>Besides, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/6305841861\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Evil Dead II\">Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn<\/a> is essentially a remake of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00000G3Q4\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Evil Dead\">The Evil Dead<\/a> already. What&#8217;s the point anymore?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=130173&amp;cid=10858793\" title=\"\/.: Why not Call it...\">this idea from the \/. thread<\/a> made me laugh: maybe they&#8217;ll name it <strong>Evil Dead 4: Army of Darkness 2<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I realize that given my &#91;<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/could_be_brilli.html\" title=\"Could be brilliant or horrible\">cautious<\/a>&#93; optimism over the upcoming Tim Burton version of <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/charlie_and_the.html\" title=\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory teaser poster\">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/a>, this may seem like a somewhat hypocritical whine. Live with it. My site, my rules.)<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/11\/18\/187218&amp;from=rss\" title=\"\/.: Raimi Remaking 'Evil Dead'?\">\/.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: the previously rumored &#8216;Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash&#8217; is probably dead. The bad news: that&#8217;s because Raimi is remaking The Evil Dead (bad enough) and will be letting someone else direct it (worse).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[34,23],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-evil-dead","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}