Raimi, Campbell Relaunching “Evil Dead”

Evil Dead is coming back.  Director Sam Raimi and star Bruce Campbell are teaming up again to produce a remake of the horror classic.

The movie will be co-written and directed by Fede Alvarez, the South American filmmaker who was behind the acclaimed short film Panic Attack.

“We are committed to making this movie and are inspired by the enduring popularity and enthusiasm for the Evil Dead series. We can’t wait to scare a new generation of moviegoers using filmmaking techniques that were not available to us thirty years ago as well as Fede bringing a fresh eye to the film’s original elements,” said Raimi and Campbell in a statement.

The movie centered on five college kids vacationing in a cabin in the woods who unleash evil spirits. Campbell played a student named Ash who became the lone survivor and in subsequent movies, which became darkly comic in tone, turned into a chainsaw-armed killer of the dead.