Director Sam Raimi isn’t promising that the Evil Dead reboot will be better than the original, but he is promising that it will be bloodier.

“It’s really bloody. It’s so bloody, it will make your head spin. I’ve seen almost all the dailies and they’re really going for it. It’s gonna be grisly and intense and non-stop,” he tells Collider.  “Definitely R. Maybe worse.”

Raimi goes on to say that he sees the original as a “campfire story” and while he’s proud of the original, he feels there’s a lot of room for improvement in the reboot.

“There could be much better writing than I was capable of, at the time, as an 18-year-old kid writing that screenplay,” Raimi say. “And honestly, the directing could be a lot better, and the characterizations could be better. I was very happy with it, but it was something that was crudely done and I thought deserved re-exploration. I thought it would be fun and, in fact, it has turned out to be a tremendous amount of fun because it’s like an old melody that you write and you’ve brought in this really great, cool, young, hip jazz musician, and he’s riffing on it and showing you places it could go that you never dreamed. It’s very exciting for me.”