‘Evil Dead’ Remake Loses a ‘The’ & Gets a Scratchy Font

It’s going to happen folks. The Evil Dead is going to be remade, and there’s nothing you can do about it.  As much as I love the trilogy that Sam Raimi has made and the universe he has constructed, I’m thinking this new title banner released at AFM is a start in a good and new direction.  Which, honestly, if you are going to remake it, do it differently.  Dawn of the Dead and My Bloody Valentine 3D are two of the most successful films to come out of the remake craze, and they both approached the source material in a different light. Dawn dropped the political message of Romero’s and Valentine turned up the “camp” level.  Here, The Evil Dead remake is already looking different than the original with its hand-drawn font.  Not to mention they even dropped the ‘THE” of the original title.  The style looks lifted from Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist titles, but I can still applaud it for giving us a new look compared to the 1981 font.  I’m going to approach this new version with an open-mind.  However, I have to slightly carry my bias that Raimi’s original horror outing is a splatter masterpiece that includes a pencil and ankle scene that still gives me a shudder even after watching the scene over 50 times. Until 2013, when Fede Alvarez’s remake is unleashed, enjoy the image below.

Source: Dread Central