Remy: PRACTICAL EFFECTS
HUZZAH, let us all rejoice for a moment over Evil Dead‘s jaw-dropping practical effects.
Make no mistakes about it, bad CGI has become the bane of horror. Animated blood splashing from animated creatures makes me feel like I am watching a rated R Pixar movie, but the Evil Dead remake was like “f**k that noise, we want all our effects to be practical.” Yes, you read that correctly. Outside of the “burning” scene at the start, and the “vine slug”, all the effects in this movie were done with fake blood and prosthetics. While that may not sound too impressive, to see the movie in action proves otherwise. It is visceral, realistic, and in your face. It even left me with a few moments where I was wondering how they did it – flabbergasted and amazed.
The face slicing scene, for example. How the hell was I seeing her teeth from inside her cheek? Sssh, don’t tell me, it was pure magic. But the practical effects alone took the movie from awesome to, in my opinion, the new horror benchmark all other horror films (and their effects) will be measured against.
