{"id":40951,"date":"2013-04-27T15:14:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=40951"},"modified":"2013-04-27T15:14:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T14:14:28","slug":"evil-dead-reboot-is-more-exorcist-than-evil-dead-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/evil-dead-reboot-is-more-exorcist-than-evil-dead-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Dead reboot is more Exorcist than Evil Dead II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jane Levy in Fede Alvarez’ Evil Dead reboot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Modern horror tales are bypassing drama to get to the horror quickly, says Evil Dead<\/i> writer\/director Fede Alvarez.<\/p>\n

Speaking exclusively to <\/strong>SciFiNow,<\/strong> <\/i>Alvarez cited The Exorcist <\/i>as ‘the Bible of possession movies,’ and claimed that modern horror movies weren’t catering for the kind of slow-burning tension found in the 1973 classic.<\/p>\n

He says: “If you think about The Exorcist<\/i>, the first half of the movie is a mother concerned about her daughter. Great horror movies are all crafted like that. They don’t do it that way anymore because people are anxious to get to the horror quickly.”<\/p>\n

There is certainly a familiar Regan-like quality to Evil Dead’<\/i>s central character Mia, a young woman battling drug addiction whose first signs of possession are dismissed as the symptoms of withdrawal. Like Pazuzu taunting Karras, Deadite-possessed Mia hits brother David with a few home truths. According to Alvarez, the best baddies know all your dirty little secrets.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day what makes a demon powerful or a possessed person powerful? It’s that they know everything about you. I think that’s where the idea of possession comes from – when someone is an addict or an alcoholic.<\/p>\n

“Possession like that turns a person into a monster, and that’s supposed to be your loved one – it’s an idea that scared the hell out of me. We thought this was a good place to start the story so it wasn’t going to feel like we were talking about one issue then something entirely different – it’s really the same theme.”<\/p>\n

Evil Dead<\/em> is in cinemas now. You can read our review here<\/a> and  buy Sam Raimi’s original The Evil Dead<\/em> on Blu-ray for £8 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AnCV5tmdKTY<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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