Hardly. An extremely misleading tagline. The movie suffers from not having Ash and humor of the original trilogy and also bland and boring characters. On the positive side, dialogues are cool, especially threats and vulgarities from demons.
shareNot far from it in my opinion. It'd make my top 25 'most terrifying' films list, that's for sure.
shareSomething backfired 😅
shareI know you are well versed n the genre, so I’d be interested in seeing your top 10.
shareTop 10 most terrifying films?
The Innocents (1961)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Black Christmas (1974)
Angst (1983)
When a Stranger Calls Back (1993)
Dark Water (2002)
[Rec] (2007)
Martyrs (2008)
Sinister (2012)
Evil Dead (2013)
Others;
Taste of Fear (1961)
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
The Sentinel (1977)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Maniac (1980)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Beyond (1981)
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Eyes of a Stranger (1981)
The Entity (1982)
Visiting Hours (1982)
The New York Ripper (1982)
Psycho II (1983)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
The Hitcher (1986)
Hellraiser (1987)
The Stepfather (1987)
Pin (1988)
The Woman in Black (1989)
The Exorcist III (1990)
Candyman (1992)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Mute Witness (1995)
Thesis (1996)
Event Horizon (1997)
The Others (2001)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
The Ring (2002)
Rose Red (2002)
High Tension (2003)
Shutter (2004)
The Descent (2005)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Them (2006)
The Orphanage (2007)
Inside (2007)
Eden Lake (2008)
The House of the Devil (2009)
Insidious (2010)
The Conjuring (2013)
It Follows (2014)
Hell House LLC (2015)
Lights Out (2016)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
The Ritual (2017)
The Night House (2020)
Host (2020)
Smile (2022)
Great list. Seen most of these, gonna check the rest. To me, movies like Innocents (which truly is one of the most terrifying movies ever) are best horror. I'm not the biggest fan of gore (torture porn "horror" especially), but Evil Dead '13 is so over the top, that it's ok to me. But nowhere near the most terrifying movie ever.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is my favorite off of your top list and is one of my favorite films of all time.
From the larger list, I am a big fan of The Beyond (1981), Dark night of the Scarecrow (1981), The New York Ripper (1982) and Alice, Sweet Alice (1976).
Of all the ones you’ve listed, and I’ve seen, The Woman in Black (1989) really gets under my skin. So damn spooky!
I watch a ton of horror - always have done. It's my favourite genre. But no film I've ever seen has lived up to that tagline.
That said, I think Evil Dead '13 is a blast and easily my favourite of the franchise so far.
That's just marketing though, isn't it?
Loads of horror movies do that, rather than go; "Okay, you won't be scared, but give it a watch. You might enjoy it anyway".
It's when horror movies compare themselves to other movies in their own write-ups that annoys me.
Does every killer doll movie have to say how much cooler it is than Chucky, or whatever. Or, like, there's a new slasher villain and it goes; "These films give Freddy nightmares"..... No need to reference much better films, in my opinion.
Bruce Campbell said the point of the tagline is to let people know it's not like the old one. There's no comedy.
shareThere wasn't any comedy in the original, either. It was meant to be a serious horror.
shareThere were funny moments and humor is one of the things people associate the franchise with. This was a humorless remake.
shareNonsense. There's always been comedic elements to Raimi's Evil Dead movies.
shareI don't remember much about this one other than disliking it a lot, the most incurably dull film you will ever experience.
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