Bruce Campbell thinks it’s good that the new Evil Dead game took so long, actually
So Evil Dead: The Game took a little longer than expected. Patience is a virtue, deadites!
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Bruce Campbell is back on top. Not that he was never not on top. But he’s back on the big screen (again, he’s kind of always around). However you want to characterize it, one of the great things about Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness is that it introduced new moviegoers to Campbell via his pizza ball poppin’ poppa, Pizza Poppa. And thank the demons of Hell because he’s got more Evil Dead stuff on the horizon.
Campbell is reopening the eBook Of The Dead in the long-delayed Evil Dead: The Game. Why? Because they’ve been busy making it better! “I’m glad they waited, honestly,” Campbell told The Hollywood Reporter. “There were three previous Evil Dead games made, and you know, they got better. But they were all cheeseball.”
“They kept delaying this game because of platform changes, technology changes and stylistic things change. So we sort of rolled with it, and we’re glad that they waited. I’m very pleased with it, and the game seems to be well received.”
Now that the game is out on PC, PS4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and presumably PS Series 9s Xbox Gold Edition, Campbell can focus on more important things, like whether or not there’s going to be another Darkman. Unsurprisingly, he’s only interested if Raimi’s back—though he did say that Raimi is “not going to direct it.” Nevertheless, he’s happy to see his friend back at it—he said as he changed the subject.
“Look, Sam, he’s back in the game. The old bird’s still got it, and it’s great to see. And mostly, it’s going to be fun because now he’ll have a little more leeway again.”
As for that Multiverse Of Madness and all the bloody, gory violence that caused an uptick in monocles falling into martini glasses? He thinks it’s pretty ridiculous.
“And look, they let Sam Raimi make a Sam Raimi movie. Marvel is always going to put the Marvel stamp on it, but Sam was pretty good at weaseling himself in there. You could just tell there were some definite Sam moments. And people being worked up about it being PG-13 — the violence was pretty cartoonish.”
If there’s any justice in the world, the kids traumatized by the cartoon violence of Doctor Strange will seek out other works by Sam Raimi. Might we suggest starting with The Evil Dead?
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Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick may be cheeseball, but it’s amusing cheeseball.
I lose track of which one is which. The original game on PS1 was an okay Resident Evil clone, but the combat was way too slow for an Evil Dead game. Was Fistful of Boomstick on PS2? If so, there’s no way it was as good as Regeneration, which had Ted Raimi as a little demon and some admirably terrible efforts to mimic Raimi camera moves on a PS2 graphics engine.
Bubba game when?
It was worth the wait to be sure. It still needs some polishing up and a few injections of post-launch content, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun playing roles and swallowing souls.
What kind of game is it? It kind of looks like a Friday the 13th style multiplayer game, but I haven’t dug into it very much.
Best way I can describe it is Friday the 13th, Dead by Daylight, etc. meets Left 4 Dead. So, you have the demon player deploying/possessing units, setting traps, possessing players, and so on to harass and slow down (and preferably kill) the 4 survivor players while they try to complete a series of objectives while looting areas. A lot of character-specific powers and leveling paths on both sides. It has a certain rhythm to it that’s really addictive, and for Evil Dead fans they really went all out with the fan service, like F13 did. Annoyingly, they locked some characters behind some frustrating single player missions, but it’s a minor gripe. (dammit, let me unlock Pablo!)
Aw man. That’s such an elegant mashup. Just like Evil Dead. I really enjoyed Friday the 13th once I realized that I’m terrible at being Jason. I actually managed to repair the boat and save myself while he was busy killing the others. I’d be the secondary villain of a slasher movie, in other words.
Obviously if you want to hook the kids on Evil Dead, you start with Evil Dead 2, not the first film.
Presumably how the MoM pitch went:Marvel – Hey Sam, we’d love for you to do the new Dr. Strange movie.
Raimi – I don’t know, guys. I haven’t done superheroes in a long time, and the last one didn’t go over too well with audiences.
Marvel – We’ll give you a huge budget and creative control. Just take a look at the script, at least.
Raimi – (spends thirty seconds looking at script) OH! You want a movie where a zombie plagued by the damned has to fight a witch over a cursed book; why didn’t you say so? That I can do!And then, incredibly, Marvel just gave him piles of cash and let him make a Raimi screwball horror movie, but with sorcerers.
More like Marvel gave him a pile of cash to play director-for-hire after Scott Derrickson quit “Multiverse of Madness”.They just needed this script to fit its place in the ongoing MCU plot, and slapped in zombies and evil books to make it quack like Evil Dead.