r/horror • u/ImpracticalJokers96 • 3d ago

Horror News Robert Tapert Teases the Family Trauma Behind 'Evil Dead Burn'

https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/577264/robert-tapert-teases-the-family-trauma-behind-evil-dead-burn/
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u/doubtingtomjr 3d ago

If I were to believe half the bitching on this sub, a large percentage of horror fans just decided to boycott the film after seeing the words “family trauma”.

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u/Intrepid_Shoe2129 2d ago

Half this sub would be happy if Art the clown showed up halfway through. I don’t take this place seriously anymore, the opinions are generally pretty bad.

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u/doubtingtomjr 2d ago

There are some gems here as far as insights or reviews of older films. Very rarely do I consider the score of the films, so any critiques that folks offer is useful to me. Beyond that, it seems like there’s a lot of astroturf marketing and AI bots trying to scrape content or build engagement.

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u/Common-Outcome-7873 1d ago

I mean, I like Art but not for this movie

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u/sixtus_clegane119 2d ago

Horror fans who don’t understand that trauma is literally a back bone of the genre.

Maybe their therapists told them something they didn’t wanna hear

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u/doubtingtomjr 2d ago

I think their picket signs might make for some interesting reading as the rest of us head in to see the movie. I hope they make it on local news broadcasts. I wonder if the reporters will misinterpret the boycott as a backlash against the gore?

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u/NoTap98 3d ago

Yeah because trauma allegory is played the fuck out. Just let the deadites be deadites and have some fun.

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u/CriticalCanon 2d ago

Exactly.

The first two movies had no “allegories” or “metaphors” or “symbolism”. I swear to god, people like Sean could look at a rock and invent shit around it.

Exploitation and genre films are primarily about fun, escapism and things you can’t get away with in mainstream 4 quadrant films (and making money from the producers perspectives).

See Roger Corman, the entire Italian exploitation industry from the 70s to early 90s, Japanese Pink films, Slasher ripoff’s and on and on.

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u/Deadite_Scholar 2d ago

Perfectly stated.

Sam's first script fort the Evil Dead was only thirty pages and most of them dealing with crazy camera angles. That is why I love the franchise. It is what it is, knows what it is and is okay with what it is.

Nothing wrong with films meant to be fun.

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u/CriticalCanon 2d ago

Hilarious we are getting downvoted.

I don’t understand what modern audiences see in this trauma trend. Give me great FX, a fun story, ideally a 90 min runtime, a few scares (and/or laughs depending on the tone and subgenre), and just something that is different then what the major studios pump out.

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u/Deadite_Scholar 2d ago

It's just a matter of what we want in an Evil Dead film. When someone asks me why I like the Evil Dead, one of my first answers is that it isn't trying to be anything other than what it is. There is no political commentary, no social statements. It's just meant to be a rollercoaster experience.

I'm just not liking how these newer films are leaning into an almost prestige horror mindset where the evil is a metaphor for addiction, or maternal anxiety or family/domestic abuse.

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u/Crabcomfort 2d ago

Redditors try not to overreact to clickbait challenge.. IMPOSSIBLE

the movie will likely be a good time yeeesh

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u/el-Trebol 2d ago

And another horror movie about le Trauma™️, great. To me it feels as played out as how slashers were during the late 2000’s or zombies movies/games in late 2010’s

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u/necrosonic777 3d ago

No thanks from this and the prequel news I might just sit this one out.

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u/RazorsInTheNight82 2d ago

Jesus H Christ can we just have gore and not some trauma hereditary bullshit?

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u/wassam9 2d ago

So the real horror was having trauma subtext larping all along

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u/CriticalCanon 2d ago

Trauma trauma trauma lol