Evil Dead Reboot Original Ending Released By Director

The 2013 Evil Dead remake’s original ending has now been released by director Fede Alvarez, saying it was cut due to the suggestion of Sam Raimi, the director of the original Evil Dead trilogy. Alvarez made his film debut with Evil Dead and followed it up with Don’t Breathe and The Girl in the Spider’s Web. He’s also set to direct a new untitled Alien film for Hulu that’s unconnected to the larger canon.

Evil Dead follows the survival of a group of people in a cabin in the woods when they accidentally summon demon spirits. Despite the premise and a few visual nods to the original film, the remake shared very little with its predecessor, lacking the inventive shoestring budget style and black humor of the original in exchange for an emphasis on gore. Alvarez has spoken before about his vision of the ending of Evil Dead, saying they only partially shot his original idea.

On Twitter, Alvarez shared the clip they shot for his original ending. Similar to how the original The Evil Dead ended, the camera starts in a long shot before being pushed forward, as if it’s from the point of view of someone, toward the protagonist (played by Jane Levy.) As she looks to see what’s coming toward her, she turns and lets out a scream as the screen cuts to black. Watch the clip below:

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The original The Evil Dead ended in a similar manner, where Raimi mounted the camera to a bicycle as it was ridden through a cabin toward protagonist Ash (Bruce Campbell) in a seamless long take. In the tweet, however, Alvarez confirms that it was Raimi himself who suggested the ending be cut, since Levy’s character had been through so much by the end of Evil Dead, and she therefore deserved to survive. The next film in the Evil Dead franchise, directed by The Hole in the Ground‘s Lee Cronin, will see release in 2022 on HBO Max.

Raimi’s Evil Dead films are some of horror’s most defining entries, and to remake such a masterpiece feels like a miscalculation from the start. Though Alvarez’s Evil Dead isn’t a bad film, if it didn’t have the title Evil Dead, it would’ve fared much better, since the name is the only thing they really share besides a basic premise. All the film can really achieve is to remind viewers how good Raimi’s films are, and Evil Dead‘s original ending reinforces that point exactly.

Source: Fede Alvarez

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