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Would You See a Remake of ‘The Craft’?
I ask because the following story is basically click-bait, so I figured I may as well get a real conversation started.
Okay, so, our friends at DreadCentral had a reader write into them claiming that, while taking an online survey about recent theatrical releases, was asked about what they thought about a remake of The Craft. Now, it’s very possible that this is real – but there’s no way to verify this as I, too, could make an online survey and take a screenshot off of my computer. Furthermore, the reader’s name is “Mikey” – and oddly enough, I’ve been receiving a rash of phony tips from a “Mike” and “Miky”. Coincidence? Who knows.
But, a remake of The Craft has been rumored for years now (since 2006), and nothing has actually come into fruition. In fact, we reported it as dead back in 2008. Although, when you really think about it, The Craft is the perfect film to remake as it’s teen-centric and could be modernized quite a bit. I’d see it…
Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, and Neve Campbell starred in the 1996 film that follows a newcomer to a Catholic prep high school whom falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls that practice witchcraft. They they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them. Andrew Fleming directed the classic.
This scoop is light as a feather, stiff as a board…
From director Sébastien Vaniček, Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters July 10, but that’s just one of two brand new Evil Dead movies releasing in the next two years.
Evil Dead Wrath recently wrapped production, with the upcoming film from director Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County) set for theatrical release on April 7, 2028.
We’ve known virtually nothing about the movie up to this point, but a recent interview with producer Rob Tapert has surfaced this week (thanks, Dread Central) and it reveals a very surprising bit of information about Evil Dead Wrath. The film is set in 1972!!
Tapert told the students at Michigan State University during a chat, “Evil Dead Wrath is yet another great departure. It predates everything. It takes place in 1972.”
That means Evil Dead Wrath takes place even before the arrival of Ash Williams and friends to that infamous cabin in the woods, which should give the film a whole new kind of flavor.
Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness was of course set in the Middle Ages, but Evil Dead Wrath will take place chronologically before Ash Williams was transported into medieval times!
“It will feel like a 1972 movie because the director and his DP want to imitate the film’s look and feel of something that’s called Ektachrome 100, which was a film stock,” Tapert notes. “Still available. A lot of movies shot on back then. And so it’s very warm, very tungsten.”
Tapert calls Wrath “very Tarantino-esque, very deliberate. [Galluppi] made a movie, not a horror movie, that I liked a great deal called Last Stop in Yuma County. It’s worth looking up.”
The Last Stop in Yuma County, it’s interesting to note, is also set in the 1970s!
Charlotte Hope (The Nun), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat), Zach Gilford (“Midnight Mass”), Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Road), Ella Newton (Dangerous Animals), Elizabeth Cullen (Diabolic), and Ella Oliphant will star in Evil Dead Wrath.
Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi and franchise producer Rob Tapert are producing. Bruce Campbell and Lee Cronin will executive produce alongside Romel Adam and Jose Canas.
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