The Evil Dead News

This week I take a peek at Hulu Plus , another paid online streaming service that charges $8 a month for access to new and old TV shows, but also a decent collection of movies --ranging from extremely highbrow to extremely lowbrow.

There are two Sam Raimi s: There's the one that does considered, heartfelt adult dramas, and then there's the crazy bastard who throws everything at the screen and sees what sticks.

The beautifully shot "Cloud Atlas," the blood-spattered "Texas Chainsaw" and the "lost" Sam Rami comedy "Crimewave" make for an eclectic week for DVD fans.

In the late 70's, Writer/Director Sam Raimi started on an odyssey to film what would become one of the 80's most notorious and special achievements considering the grueling and ardious filming schedule in which many people left the production never to return when the money came in for the film to be completed as intended.

When Sam Raimi's low-budget splatter flick "The Evil Dead" emerged in 1983, it had the same sort of queasy impact you get when you hear a thud and feel something dragging under your tires.

Bosses at the Gwyn Hall are offering free insurance in case the latest box office smash proves to be dead scary in the literal sense.

It seems that America has lost hope of remakes long ago, yet we continue to see these remakes reboots, and reimaginings spill out like projectile vomit.

In the world of horror movies, no word can entice more anger or sighs than the word "remake". These days when Hollywood is not churning out a cheap shaky-cam shocker like 'Paranormal Activity', it is also pointlessly remaking horror classics like 'Halloween' as property cash-ins. Needless to say, much cynicisms and speculation arose when it was ... (more)

Remaking cult or classic films hasn't worked very well so far, especially when those remakes are in the genre of the horror film.

A new drama based on the book and documentary from the 40s that sent Thor Heyerdahl and friends across the Pacific in a balsa wood raft.