It’s a something-for-everyone weekend at South African cinemas, with today’s new releases straddling a wide assortment of genres. Last Updated: August 16, 2013

Today The Evil Dead is overshadowed by its two comedic sequels, often leading many to forget that the original film was not a giddy horror. There were no one-liners, laughing wall ornaments or possessed hands. Instead, it was a film so brutal and gory that today it still stands as one of the watershed moments in the genre. So, naturally, …

I have a confession to make… and this may require that I turn in my “film geek” badge. I don’t like Sam Raimi’s original Evil Dead trilogy. I’m just not a fan of cartoonish slapstick in my horror films, which is pretty much the defining feature, along with Bruce Campbell’s just-go-with-it performance, that made the old series a cult hit. …

We live in an exciting time for horror, folks. Today’s topic of discussion, Fede Alverez’s Evil Dead, has been heating up the movie blog debates since it was announced and at its release, something spectacular happened…it was positively received! *shocked gasp* Yes, Evil Dead, the remake that everyone asked for but nobody really think would work…worked. Let’s start at the beginning, …

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Despite fans’ initial fears that Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead remake would tree-rape their memories of Sam Raimi’s original cult classic films, most early reports are that it’s bloody good, emphasis on the bloody, with a sequel already in the works, imaginatively titled Evil Dead 2. Soon thereafter we got greeted with the news that Raimi might be returning to his original …

Although we seem to be in the age of gritty reimaginings of popular fairy tales, superheroes and other fantasy creations, Oz the Great and Powerful is definitely not a dark and tortured reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s vibrant Oz universe. A collaboration between Disney and director Sam Raimi, Oz the Great and Powerful feels rather unsurprisingly like a combination of …

If you’re not a fan of things that are either “evil” or “dead” or any combination of the two, then I have some bad news for your future. Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead, a remake of Sam Raimi’s classic horror, is about to tree rape your mind, while last week saw the announcement that Raimi and his brother would soon start …