MaidOfKandar said:
Gut0nez said:
MaidOfKandar said:
The green eye thing was mainly because Fede has a huge thing for the Exorcist. Seriously, during the remake's press tour I swear he talked about that movie more than the remake itself.
I didn't know that. I can definitely see it, now that you mention it. The deadites in the remake certainly seem to take more inspiration from Regan than from the deadites in the actual Evil Dead series. I understand the design choices better now. I still think they were the wrong design choices and I don't like the results, but at least now I can see where that came from. Even though there's a chance that Regan was the inspiration for the deadites in the original trilogy as well, by the time the remake was made, deadites had already become their own thing. It just feels wrong to deviate so much from that.
And I think that's why these Deadites never worked for me - it feels like a non-Evil Dead-ish possession, very Exorcist-y.
A bit late to the discussion, but here is my take on it;
Those possessed in the remake don't have pale/white eyes as they arent possessed by a Kandarian demon - they are possessed by he who requires 5 souls.
Throughout evil dead history there have been variances depending upon the type of demon. In 'The Evil Dead' and 'Evil Dead 2' they are kandarian demons... in Army of Darkness, we see Kandarian demons, but when the book is removed from the cradle in the graveyard, that is the army of the dead that awakens; thus, Evil Ash and Sheila dont have white eyes. In Ash vs Evil Dead, when Eligos possesses Kelly, she has black eyes.
I think the problem arises as fans have adopted the same 'group name' for these demons as Ash heard them referred to in the medieval period, 'deadites'. At no point do we ever hear the word deadite translated by anyone from the book of the dead - the book uses the word 'demons'. There are various types of demon - and the 2013 movie (i consider it a sequel rather than remake) deals with a different demon than the original movie, accounting for the difference is appearence
I'd even go as far as saying there are multiple books; the necronomicon ex mortis - the large complete text, and Noturum de montos; smaller bitesized volumes focusing on specific entities; thus accounting for the noturum de monto burned in ED1 (kamdarian volume) the 2013 movie (the abomination volume) and the main Necronomicon from Army of Darkness/ Ash vs Evil Dead... the original script for ED1 says the book was one of six volumes if i recall correctly
Just my personal take :-D
I've never thought along those line about the BOTD before .. please post more often !
(I'm a nerd)