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Want to Watch ‘Evil Dead 4’…Today?
Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness is one of the most important “gateway” horror films, which opened the door for many of us into the genre. In fact, I often see people mention that they saw Army before they even knew The Evil Dead or its sequel existed. No matter what order you experienced Sam Raimi’s trilogy, it’s one of the best and most popular horror franchises.
Army of Darkness came out in 1992, and ever since us horror fans have been clamoring for an Evil Dead 4. An unofficial sequel was once announced, and star Bruce Campbell even tried to appease fans with his 2007 meta-horror My Name is Bruce. And after the 2013 remake of Evil Dead, which revealed Ash in the post-credit sequence, it became clear that he would be returning in some way, shape or form. That would be the television series, “Ash vs Evil Dead,” which completed it’s inaugural run and is now filming a second season for a fall debut.
Sure, “Ash vs. Evil Dead” isn’t called Evil Dead 4, but it’s clearly a followup that lives in canon to the previous trilogy (and from what I hear, even the 2013 remake). Raimi even acknowledged that a lot of the series was intended for the fourth Evil Dead. With that said, “Ash vs. Evil Dead” is basically Evil Dead 4, a really, really long version.
Weirdly enough, I asked a friend to cut down the series into a manageable viewing length, and while he has yet to do it, a Bloody Disgusting reader has taken a different approach.
Josh Allwein contacted me to share his “VHS Cut” of “Ash vs. Evil Dead,” which has been run through a VHS filter. In addition, the intros have been edited out and the demon voices have been edited to sound more like the original films.
Below is his art piece that has me wishing a professional editor would trim this down to film-length so we officially have our Evil Dead 4.
Thoughts?
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Filmmaker Michael Mann‘s adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon, Manhunter, turns 40 this year. To celebrate, StudioCanal is unleashing a brand new 4K restoration in theaters next month.
Manhunter: The Final Cut will open in select US theaters on July 24, following its debut at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ David Geffen Theater this Friday, June 12.
The film will also release theatrically in the UK on September 25 and on home entertainment later this year.
In Manhunter, “FBI criminal profiler Will Graham (William L. Petersen) is called out of early retirement to assist on a serial murder case involving a killer known as the “Tooth Fairy” (Tom Noonan). Graham enlists the help of imprisoned serial killer — and cannibal — Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox), who is the reason Graham took an early retirement. Soon, Graham and the FBI are entangled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game between the Tooth Fairy, Lecter, and an interfering journalist (Stephen Lang).“
It marks the first on-screen appearance of the cannibalistic killer that Anthony Hopkins would later popularize in The Silence of the Lambs, though Brian Cox’s iteration has even less screentime.
It’s the talents of the late Tom Noonan as the unsettling Francis Dollarhyde that makes this serial killer thriller so creepy.
This new 4K Final Cut, overseen by Mann, “enhances the film’s depth, visual clarity and sound, offering audiences the ultimate immersive version,” per the press release.
“40 years ago – though armed with Thomas Harris’ excellent novel, Red Dragon – its subject matter, the profiling of serial killers, as well as being shocking and raw, was unknown. When adapting, I wanted to make its storytelling deliver audiences into a certain state of threat and emotional engagement. Integral to that was the visualization and use of music with lyrics, sometimes working like a libretto. We have carefully remastered the film to try to evoke that mood and intensity, heightened with audio sourced from the original 5.1 35mm analog masters. This latest iteration is that version of the film with which I’m most satisfied,” said writer-director Michael Mann.
Mann guided this 4K scan of the original 35mm negative, with a few shots from an interpositive , that was conformed and digitally restored at L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna. Both the theatrical version and the UHD HDR & SDR video color gradings were performed by Stefan Sonnenfeld at Company 3 in Los Angeles with the director. Sound restoration was done at Audio Mechanics from an original 35mm magnetic 6-track printmaster to release a new 5.1 mix by Luke Schwartzweller at Fox. Technical coordination and deliveries were managed by L’Immagine Ritrovata. This project was supervised by Becca Mann and the StudioCanal team, Jean-Pierre Boiget, and Delphine Roussel.
For Michael Mann, the process is about renewing the film’s immediacy for contemporary audiences: “If the picture was left the way it was, it would be interesting, but you’d feel some distance …you’d be observing it somewhat. I’m more interested in its original intent impacting you the same way it may have in 1986…that is, to bring you into it again in the original way.”
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