Let’s play word association. Say the words “Evil Dead” and what immediately comes to mind? Demonic posession? The Necromonicon? Tree Rape? Cabin in the Woods? Chainsaw? Over the top violence? Bruce Campbell? Well, the newest trailer for the Evil Dead remake from director Fede Alvarez hits six out of seven (all seven if you count Mr. Campbell’s role as a producer). Starring Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas, Lou Taylor Pucci and Elizabeth Blackmore and produced by the original Renaissance Pictures triumvirate of Sam Raimi, Campbell and Robert Tappert, this new Evil Dead seems extremely reverent to the source material.
But, that’s not all. According to an interview with io9, director Alvarez revealed that there was no computer generated imagery in the film:
“We didn’t do any CGI in the movie. There’s no CGI in the movie. Everything you will see is real, which was really demanding. This was a very long shoot, 70 days of shooting at night. There’s a reason people use CGI it’s cheaper and faster, I hate that. We researched a lot of magic tricks and illusion tricks. [Like] how you would make someone’s arm disappear.
There’s a moment where a girl goes through her arm with a kitchen knife — spoiler alert. And we knew since day one the camera would start wide, she goes for the knife, you see her arm, she starts going for it. And you think they’re going to cut away at any moment, but we don’t. She just goes for it and screams and the arm breaks and falls. So we really pushed the boundaries there, trying to create those illusions… It has a particularly bloody ending. The last scene is just…I want it to be the bloodiest scene, ever. And I think it is.”
Check out the new, amazing trailer after the jump. Evil Dead arrives in theaters on April 12, 2013.
