How Sam Raimi Made a Splatter Masterpiece
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If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell - amzn.to/34eh0tY
Interview with Sam Raimi (1982) - bit.ly/3fhEeWh
The Incredibly Strange Film Show - Sam Raimi (1987) - bit.ly/3fFKg29
The Evil Dead - The Untold Saga - bit.ly/3hPjbfu
Central Weekend Live - Sam Raimi (1987) - bit.ly/3ubYJYQ
Josh Becker's On-Set Journal of the production - bit.ly/34bdjVQ
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Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
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That Jimmy Carr at the beginning comparing Sam Raimi to Goebbels lol
The only difference between Raimi and Goebbels is Raimi dominated and still dominates comedy horror genre where Goebbels had a one day glory as the chancellor, sorta like that Jimmy carr lookalike
>Sam Raimi’s splatter masterpiece
>video isn’t about Spider-Man 3
Not knowing about the jazz dance scene in Army of Darkness
Edit: okay, the scene was cut and used just to torture Bruce
Look at how they massacred Emo Peter
(Me who actually likes Spider-Man 3)
*I'm Gonna Put Some Dirt In Your Eye*
@@dashingtherouxthesnow4017 Ahem, his name is Bully Maguire.
Even though the budget was so low, Raimi still tried his best to show his creativity and go as far as he could. Yeah the scene with the tree wasn't needed but hey at the same time, he wanted to show Wes Craven that Hills Have Eyes is nothing compared to what I'm going to show you. I'm gonna take it up to 11.
The tree scene is absolutely essential.
@@blodarv666The tree scene is the first incident of the evil dead invading a human,thus kicking off all the wonderfully weird ensuing possession and craziness,so,although it makes me feel kind of creepy to say so,I tend to agree.The tree scene is needed.
It's crazy how true Raimi's sentiment about having too high a budget resonates today.
I just watched through the ED triogy recently and I couldn't help but think about how much more I loved the first Evil Dead compared to his later works like the Spider-Man movies because of how low-budget and creative it felt. You can feel the effort in every frame, it has this undeniable charm to it that very few other movies have
The comparison between Stooges Pies and Dead’s gore was masterful 👌
Bruce and Sam were massive stooges fans.
This video is more interesting to watch tnan the movie it is about
The Royal Ocean Film Society is now officially my favorite channel of all time.
Same here
Since I was the Richard Linklater Patience's video he became my favorite
Mine too
Mine too
same ever since his Criterion and UPA videos
The Evil Dead was filmed an hour away from my hometown of Knoxville! Unfortunately, the cabin as burned down since and it isn't even considered the most popular or acclaimed movie filmed in Tennessee, but those who love The Evil Dead love it oh so dearly.
Love a good Sam Raimi video. This was quite the retrospective. He hasn't lost that schlocky ingenuity: after the Spiderman films he made Drag me to hell which still has a lot of that Evil dead spirit
Well, that it one of the criticism of Drag Me To Hell, that he was just phoning it in and reusing techniques from Evil Dead without any innovation. I hated Drag Me To Hell and thought he had lost his way.
@@remlya I never even realized Drag Me to Hell was a Sam Rami film. I watched it in my high school horror phase where my best friend at the time and myself just were watching any and all horror films we could get our hands on. We both felt that it dragged in many places and that overall the ending left us unsatisfied. I don't really remember much of it except that its the last thing I recall Justin Long being in.
It was supposed to be set in the same universe.
The debuts of Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson & Edgar Wright all inspired me to think that shooting my first feature at age 20 would be possible... and it was!!!! Just took a lot of perseverance, determination and overconfidence
have u ever seen Brick? It was Rian Johnsons low budget debut and I think its pretty awesome
Fortunately, overconfidence is in abundance at 20.
I'm in the minority, but the first Evil Dead is my favorite!
While I think Evil Dead II is a better made film, I still watch The Evil Dead a lot more than Evil Dead II.
Same here! One of my favourite horror movies. The second is great but for me it will always be the first.
Same here!!
Me too
It has its charms
Maybe the best usage of "Ride of the Valkyries" I've ever seen. You are a king amongst men.
This film is both weirdly inspiring and horrifying.
The thumbnail alone, deserves likes for the video!
new upload from ROFS always makes my day
edit:
watching ROFS new video did indeed make my day
Love that you went into the Evil Dead! Would love to get your take on some more classic horror in future videos.
These are great, by the way, thank you for doing what you do.
That prologue at the beginning reminds me how much I detest censorship. I don't care if it's someone arguing for a film to be banned for "the sake of the children", there are far more disturbing things out there than horror films.
As if everything has to be made and appeal for children too
Fun factoid: Edward Snowden himself has advocated for censorship, albeit a particular kind.
This kind of actions are the same as saying "I don't personally like this so NOBODY will enjoy it."
I’m sooo excited for his Doctor Strange!
The fact that Britbongs actually call movies like this "Video Nasties" is so absurdly British....
I'm a brit and it's fucking awesome
Recently got the 4K edition and was surprised to find it was in 1.33:1 (4:3). Turns out that was the original aspect ratio all along, Sam asked for it to be changed after the fact. So VHS and 4K are technically the only "correct" versions. Pretty wild.
Imagine caring about how you watch a movie and if it's "correct". Just enjoy the movie, doesn't matter whatever it's on
VHS is cheaper but 4K is better quality, which one ?
Sam Raimi really struck the pitch perfect balance of horror and comedy with the whole Evil Dead trilogy. My favorite horror movies of all time
Damn, only 21? It's things like this that really make me want to get working on my passions.
He was 20 not 21 when making the film
I feel like new directors can't do cheap horror movies like Evil Dead today and still get recognition for it. Every time I watched short horror movies or even feature-length films, I see great talent, but I get distracted by the forced beauty shots. I wished they would stop trying to win some prize for their rack focus, their slow motion or their contre-jour and just make something creepy (that goes not only for splatter films but for psychological horror movies as well). I guess now when they don't have the means to get a good cinematographer, they just do a found footage. And I don't think it's entirely their fault. I live in Montreal where we have the famous Festival Fantasia and I saw the selection becoming more and more elitist over the years, refusing to show low-budget masterpieces just because they're a little bit dark, or shaky or sometimes out of focus, films made by a group of passionates who risked everything they had because they truly believed in their project. I'm also thinking about George Miller right now but there are many others.
The podcast Blockbuster needs to do a season on Raimi. Btw, if you’ve never listened to it check it out. The James Cameron season is pure gold.
Love that podcast myself...George Romero would also make an outstanding season!
One of many favorite scenes of mine on this movie would be 08:14 . The "Water mirror", I watch this back when I was a kid and doesn't felt much than ' Huh, This is weird'. But as I've grown up to this point, Watching and reading along the way. The scene was very impact on how this "evil" can manipulate or warping the environment to the whole dimensional terror. It was as if the character had been trapped and there's no way out of this at all.
Love the Gore vs Pie montage! Very cool
Lots of great footage in this. Excellent!
this channel is always a pleasure to view. thank you
Lovely work as always!
Love your videos! Your editing skills are amazing.
Awesome video. I always knew it was amazing that the Evil Dead turned out as good as it is but it's even more amazing no one died making it.
You put so much effort into your channel and I love binging them so much, I wish you were bigger and got more support
Gorgeous video. I loved everything but especially the gore/slapstick bit.
Love your essays
0:52 80's British Ben Shapiro
Your montage at 10:10 was really well done
And then he digitally fixed the "mistakes" in the film, and now the hilarious Bruce Campbell commentary track is obsolete :/
I mean... it's a few small details here and there that make sense to remove (cameraman reflection and stuff). It just tighten everything together better.
@@LaurianeG. But the whole point of the film is that it is a collective achievement of people who had nothing but the dream of making a movie, not mattering the effort. Those mistakes are history that Sam Raimi is erasing. Like(bad comparison coming) if someone from Kurosawa's family digitally stablized a shot Kurosawa left shaky. Like I said, the Bruce Campbell commentary track cannot be attatched to the new editions of Evil Dead because the mistakes he is talking about are not there. The mistakes are the soul of the film, imo. It shows humans made it for passion.
@@wandersonoliveira263 I mean... I disagree. One, considering it's the director himself who oversaw theses, the comparison does not work. But two, improving films is something quite normal that has been done thorough history, and many revised versions are now accepted as the definitive (blade runner's final cut to name one, but if I can make an even better comparison, the special edition of alien is also one that takes the film's qualities and improve upon them, perfecting it even).
At the end of the day, what is really important is the film itself, the result and to be able to enjoy it. Sure, every film can have their little things that you forgive (like the car that disappear in jackie brown during the scene in the van between samuel l jackson and robert de niro).. but I mean every artist would tell you, if they could fix it, they would. And yeah, if it can improve the viewing by removing small details that can be distracting, why not.
@@LaurianeG. Ok, let's continue the argument because I really like it.
So would you say the Star Wars special edition, with the new CGI, with Han Solo shooting second, made the films better? Not only the CGI polluted the screen(not even talking about how CGI ages poorly), but it just takes the charm of the original effects and the effort people put on the making of it.
Blade Runner is a very different case from Evil Dead, where Ridley Scott had an intent from the beginning, but the studio butchered it.
For Evil Dead, even if Sam Raimi may had a better vision for it then the final product, what we got was an amazing tale of people following their dreams. For real, to me the story of these people making this film for the course of years, out of passion for the art, guerrilla style, is the joy of watching it, not the story itself. It becomes an inspiring story for film-makers.
And Sam Raimi got the chance to remake it anyway with Evil Dead 2, where he obviously took what worked, but pushed it to a comedic approach.
Evil Dead is a film built around its trashy style. So why fix it, like it was thought to be an AAA film from the beginning?
Not even Coppolla went out his way to fix Sonny's punch in the scene he beats his brother in law, and that film is trying to be a AAA masterpiece, not a trashy college project.
@@wandersonoliveira263 My problem with the star wars films mostly is that they were far from being Luca's films (especially empire but not just). And... I mean I can't pretend to know him, but I have the impression he tried his best afterwards to claim ownership on them as much as possible. Because the thing is... there are a few details that were fixed, like blue outlines on ships during composited shots, a stick pushing a walker in empire, little details like that. The problem really lies with the very major changes that... often did not understood the point of the scenes, which is a recurring problem of his. He did the same with THX 1138: the whole point of the film was claustrophobia, so trying to make some of the sets "larger" goes entirely against that idea. There is a big nuance.
And... well in the case of blade runner, there are stuff in the final cut that were definitely changing how the original looked, like creating a new matte painting for the bird flying-off (rather than the very conspicuous shot of a factory), or the death of Zhora where you could clearly see it was a stunt double wearing a helmet with some wig, now replaced by the actual actress filmed on a green screen (and damn is it seamless it's impressive, especially if you consider all the light refraction there is in this scene)
Concerning evil dead, while it's true that no art is made in a bubble and the condition, state of mind, opinions, etc of the people involved affect it and enrich it (watching Porco Rosso, for instance, once you know a lot about Hayao Miayazaki, becomes a truly touching experience). (... and sometimes it can leave a bitter aftertaste if these factors were.... not so ideal, yes, but let's focus on the positive here ^^)
I do think, however, that if the only way to truly enjoy a film is by knowing about it... then there is a problem (not that it's the case here but I just want to advance the argument). A film also has to try to stand on it's own as much as possible.
i watched this film without knowing anything and amateurish english . in my country, i was like okay in english but couldnt watch a movie in english . i downloaded this in bad quality and watched on blackberry phone in the winter of 2009 when i was 11 and travelling to village in train on one of the coldest night of y life. this totally scared me out . i still remember the unsettling feeling in the village i had for days.
GOD I wanna give the entire "video nasty" crowd a noogie.
Great video. The hardships of making EVIL DEAD are catalogued in detail in Bruce Campbell's book "If Chins Could Kill"... Recommended!
The dude in the footage at the beginning is OUT IF HIS MIND.
I liked it because you can watch it as it is presented or interpret it as a metaphor for someone experiencing a paranoid schizophrenic break. ND ablism in film notwithstanding, of course. At the time the line between psychological horror and literal horror on screen was really fresh, though. Plus thematically I love the zombie/exorcist crossover within the film.
Loved this. Raimi is an all time great. Excellent video
Great video!
Such a good video!
Greatest student film of all time.
13:30 and to think he directed spiderman years later,what a crazy carreer
Please do more horror videos! Something on the Video Nasties or Giallo era would be amazing :)
I can't believe you used Central weekend live
Why is it that only the fantastic channels get overlooked
My favorite horror movie! So raw and real
The Evil Dead original is my all time favourite film
It premiered in Detroit in October 1981.
Weird. I thought he first showed the film at MSU in September or October of 1982 then took it to Michigan to show it in Angell Hall (the largest lecture halls (>200?) on campus then?). Those who saw it at MSU were calling friends at Michigan to go see it. That's how I and my friends heard about it. Memorable movie. Fortunately the next two were not just retreads.
Should have had something about the music.
first... glad u made a video about evil dead
I still remember when I first saw evil dead in a theater at a Halloween event
Can you do one about Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness!? That would be awesome.
Inspirational
Can never get over how much young Sam Raimi looks like young Peter Buck from REM
Fantastic
I never watched Evil dead series. But, after this video: I should give it a try..
Evil Dead 2 is a remake of the first one. It's interesting to see what they kept and what they cut.
@@Tetsuito It's a requel
@@Tetsuito uhh no it's not
@@traashghost what are you? 12? Use Google for once in your life.
@@Tetsuito haha ouch got me. Have you seen the movie? It's clearly not a remake, it starts with a recap of the first and then picks up right where it ended.
I love how they're using cigarette smoke for atmosphere lol
Thank God he didn't lose his style. Even in Oz there is a little of "Raimi" on it. I'm glad he's back with the Dr. Strange sequel, although it would be better if he focused on creating something new like Darkman. During this time of non-personal movie directors... we need more people like Sam.
Sam Raimi is a master. I hope Marvel let him do his thing in the next Doctor Strange film.
I think this is the video with the most likes with zero dislikes I've seen so far.
Right now it's 731 - 0
Makes me really happy!
13:14 - So... how DID they do the floating effect? I have to know!
@7:18
CHERYL: Hehehehehe! Hehehehehe! I can't do that forever!
ME: Hahahaha! Hahahaha!
I'm a Simple Man. If I saw video about Sam Raimi or Evil Dead Movie, I Click.
He also uses his style on Evil Dead in the new Doctor Strange.
only a person with love for the art and a deep need to tell a story untold could make a movie like this. thats why it withstands the test of time. movies like ET, predator, alien, etc are made with passion and love. an understanding of the importance to help the viewer escape into another realm and away from our daily lives. unlike the constant trash being hammered out today that just have to push a constant message about our current society. for this reason the movies today will be long forgotten by those of us who understand cinema is for escapism not indoctrination.
didnt they use the camera on a plank thing in return of the jedi a couple of years later for the speeder bike sequences?
How do you just brush over one of the Coen brothers being involved?!?
I had no idea! which one was it?
Raimi and them are best friends
It's not a big deal
Clicked as soon as I saw
I wonder if he'll ever make a video on how comic books influenced Sam Raimi's filming style.
My kingdom for french subtitle... Damned, i have not kingdom...
What supposed murders happened at the cabin?
I looked all over but cannot find any decent record of the cabin before the film of Evil Dead
The BBC is screening this uncut this week which much say something about how the culture has shifted
I'm pretty sure Sam spends most of his time thinking "How can I turn this Three Stooges bit into a blood-soaked nightmare?"
As of right now, there are 666 Likes and Zero Dislikes... Groovy.
So is this gonna be a series?
I don't have firm plans yet, but I would love to turn this into an ongoing series since I find the stories behind low-budget directorial debuts endlessly fascinating. Any potential future episodes wouldn't necessarily be limited to the horror genre though - I've been thinking about doing a video someday about Scorsese's debut, for instance.
OMG the cabin was actually allegedly the site of several murders.
Nice
This video is more interesting to watch tnan the movie it is about
for some reason, when I looked at the thumbnail (without knowing the movie nor reading the title) I knew it was a Raimi Movie...
0:50 looks like a British Ben Shapiro, sounds like something he would say also.
Been a hardcore Evil Dead and Sam Raimi fan for 20 years, but I never realized there were actually MORE fake Shemps on the movie than ACTORS! ...Thanks for teaching an old dog a new factoid.
Oh it’s got texture to spare lol.
So you’re saying he should make doctor strange 2: electric multiverse for under 1 mil or give him even more money?
Can you talk about Snatchers (2019)? Its 100% on rotten tomatoes, and I found the DVD of it stumbling on the shelves of Walmart. It could be one of the most underrated horror comedies of all time, especially the entire year! It's an insane movie and it's hilarious! Please go see it and make a video about it, I would really appreciate it very much. Also, thank you for talking about Evil Dead, but the sequel is a true masterpiece to me, but very interesting the way the first one was made.
Sam Raimi made his first feature when he was 20 yrs old and here i am 20 yrs of age not being able to make a 10 minute short film with my friends properly mostly because of the lack of resources but still.
Ive been there. One of the best ways is to make a film completely on your own acting on your own. Or you can film a short with no actors like Tim Kellner. It won't be perfect but good way to get experience and get your friends to take you more seriously when you make a more serious short film
Oh boy, this comment took me way back in time, totally been there. Some bits of advice you may or may not have heard before, have you tried not working with friends and seeking out talent for the film? I used to make (piss awful) shorts with my friends, and by gosh I was happy to have them but they just weren't enthusiastic about movie making enough to keep them focused. Try facebook groups maybe to find talents that have no experience who are just looking for an opportunity to grow some skills (no experience is key; anybody experienced you should pay full rate). As for lack of resources, I mean that's a problem that persists clear up to the MCU, what kind of resources do you need? If you can't afford arri kits, maybe ask any handymen you know if you could borrow some work lights and diffuse them with bedsheets. Props? Dig around your house, talk to your actors, make a few goodwill purchases that you can return later. Locations? What kind of locations? I've used friends' houses, Airbnbs, I've used one house as multiple houses in the story and use different B roll of the neighborhood to imply different locations. It's a pain in the ass and it takes work, BUT it's work that you can do. I needed the light to change colors for a shot once, so I asked a grade school teacher for a few sheets of overhead paper and colored it with sharpies. It's not ghetto if it works
#ReleaseTheTapertCut
Raimi invented a new subgenre: splatterstick.... I thought you knew!!! Do your homework!!! Also, the three stooges can get pretty violent sometimes, there's just no blood or fatal consequences...
Andrew, it's time to change your score of The Evil Dead (3 stars) in Letterboxd to a more masterpiece-like score.
Dude, you should do a collab with cinematyler
I guess a little bit of luck also helps in making the best horror-comedy trilogy of all time
A zombie movie, and it ISN'T HALLOWEEN!?! nice 👍
I am not getting ypur videos
"I think it has all the charm and sophistication of a speech by Joseph Goebbels.." says the clueless pundit who looks like Goebbels.
Comparing Sam Raimi to Goebbles is disgusting
Great video!
Evil dead is not a masterpiece. It's bad.
Not even ridiculously bad. Just plain bad.