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Sam Raimi Returns to Horror, Will DIRECT 'Drag Me to Hell'!!
Thursday, December 20, 2007


By: MrDisgusting
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The secret is now out of the bag, Sam Raimi was revealed to have co-written Drag Me to Hell with his brother Ivan - it was also announced that he will DIRECT the supernatural horror film for Ghost House Pictures. This will be Raimi's first horror film since The Gift back in '00 and Army of Darkness in '92. You can read all of the details inside, and PLEASE leave some feedback. What do you guys think about the project, will Raimi do a good job?


Variety reports that the morality tale about the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse will go into production early next year. It will be financed through Ghost House, a joint venture Raimi and Rob Tapert formed several years ago with Mandate Pictures.

Raimi and Tapert will produce with Grant Curtis, and Josh Donen will exec produce with Mandate's Nathan Kahane and Joe Drake.

Tapert said the Raimis penned the script well before the formation of Ghost House. It was originally written under the title "The Curse" and completed right after the siblings collaborated on 1992's "Army of Darkness," which Sam Raimi directed.

"Sam calls it a 'spook-a-blast,' a wild ride with all the chills and spills that 'Evil Dead' delivered, without relying on the excessive violence of that film," Tapert said. "When one has done three very expensive movies, they get used to eating caviar. Sam will have to ponder what it means to come down from the mountaintop for a moment."

"Drag Me to Hell" is the first Raimi-directed project for Ghost House, which has done very well in the genre game with the Sarah Michelle Gellar starrer "The Grudge," "The Grudge 2," the Stephen T. Kay-directed "Boogeyman," the Oxide and Danny Pang-directed "The Messenger" and, most recently, the David Slade-helmed "30 Days of Night." Ghost House is prepping a remake of "Evil Dead," the 1981 horror film that was Raimi's first breakout hit as a director.

After "Drag Me to Hell," Raimi is expected to go right back up the mountaintop and take the helm of "The Hobbit" films for New Line and MGM now that Peter Jackson has made it clear he won't direct.

"The appeal to Sam on 'Drag Me to Hell' was returning to what he had once done and loved doing, which was entertaining a very specific group of fans and providing a roller coaster ride for them," Tapert said. "He doesn't have the enormous pressure here that goes with handling a hundreds of millions of dollars franchise."

Tapert said no distributor has yet been set for "Drag Me to Hell."


Source: Variety

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Read 14 User Comments

Static
3:23am, December 20, 2007

Peter Jackson will indeed direct The Hobbit.

Knight of Cydonia
3:41am, December 20, 2007

If Sam Raimi does The Hobbit, I will lose all respect for him. He needs to make another Evil Dead film.

Horrorholic
8:49am, December 20, 2007

I think its great that he's returning to horror. It may not be the film we wanted him to make his return with (Evil Dead 4) but maybe it'll lead to that? As for The Hobbit, I question that but if it does happen, I think he's a good choice to take over the franchise.

TheBumpInTheNight
9:33am, December 20, 2007

I am psyched Sam Raimi is doing a new horror movie. As much as I'd love to see a new Evil Dead movie, I'm scared a new one might not live up to the originals. Maybe this will bring him back though?

sanjr
9:39am, December 20, 2007

Who cares about the friggin' Hobbit?? We need dead people in the forest who just happen to be EVIL!!! We need Bruce kickin' ass!!! We need Evil Dead 4. Let the boys from New Zealand take care of middle earth & it's little people.

Joe CLick
10:49am, December 20, 2007

WILL HE DO A GOOD JOB!, you write for a horror site, should you ask that- but yeah sam i thinks its time for the fourth coming of ashley... I mean ash. lol

Jonny Horror
12:34pm, December 20, 2007

We need another EVIL DEAD. No remake (if that's even possible), but a continuation with Bruce Cambell. PLEASE SAM !!!! No more Spidey, bring back the Necronomicon.

Evil_Flip
1:06pm, December 20, 2007

Groovy!

TheBumpInTheNight
2:28pm, December 20, 2007

I do agree....no remake. You can't recreate the Evil Dead.

NoOneImportant
4:26pm, December 20, 2007

Does this mean that he won't make spider-man 4 either?

Analßreeze ²
12:56am, December 21, 2007

Gimme some sugar baby! I'm lookin' foward to this one. I think he'll do a fine job with it!

Maelstrom
6:25am, December 21, 2007

I have a serious lack of faith in anything Raimi will release in the future.. unless of course its Evil Dead 4... That might just be because i REALLLLLY want an ED tho..

Demented D
1:04pm, December 21, 2007

If he does do ED4, please don't make it as silly and slapstick as Army Of Darkness. I couldn't take it if he did that again.

horrorchick81
7:32am, December 24, 2007

sweet....i hope he still does spidey four.


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