It is so cool I'll be able to go to this. It is the film that put Sam Raimi on the map. It is extremely low budget. The score was also done on a shoestring. Yet what they managed to do with very little money is amazing AND very different. Of all the famous horror films of the time (HALLOWEEN, NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST., FRIDAY THE 13TH) it has to be the wackiest. Usually I am allergic to "to film" concerts but Richard Kraft knows the pitfalls and always delivers WAY more (like having Bruce Campbell host!).Of course I am not totally objective. Sam Raimi was kind enough to introduce my and Bryan Singer's short film at the DGA many years ago. Bryan has gone on to do the X MEN films and I have recently done home movies.
Somebody, for the love of God, ask him what the hell is going on about his EVIL DEAD RE-IMAGINED project.
Isn't this IT?
quote: "special screening of Sam Raimi's horror classic The Evil Dead (1981), with composer Joseph LoDuca's newly reimagined score performed live and hosted by EVIL DEAD's Bruce Campbell."
Somebody, for the love of God, ask him what the hell is going on about his EVIL DEAD RE-IMAGINED project.
Isn't this IT?
quote: "special screening of Sam Raimi's horror classic The Evil Dead (1981), with composer Joseph LoDuca's newly reimagined score performed live and hosted by EVIL DEAD's Bruce Campbell."
In part, yes.
From the EVIL DEAD thread, two and a half years ago:
Alright already! After numerous requests, I have recorded the first part of a double album project: a rerecording of the the original score to the film that started it all, EVIL DEAD. The second part is entitled A NIGHTMARE REIMAGINED, where the images inspire entirely new music, using the sound of the same ensemble. I’ll keep you updated on my progress and the many surprises that will accompany the release. Joseph
Here is the lobby of the United Artists Picture Palace at the Ace Hotel filling up for the concert.
What Richard Kraft has concocted here is an antidote to the newest popular fad that I think pushes back the cause of film music - the "to film" concert. I always thought a few clips were fine in a film music concert because it "reminded" us of how the music works with the film and maybe even might turn someone on to watch the entire movie. But when the entire concert is one film with the orchestra behind the screen it puts the film music back where it started, behind the film. Kraft embellishes this, not just at the beginning with Poe's TELL TALE HEART and Bruce Campbell's chainsaw intro but with a parallel story. The print periodically breaks and burns (digitally) and while the projectionist gets it up and running the ghosts of this 1920s theater, summoned up by the incantations in the film from the Book of the Dead, return and perform numbers that happen to comment on what is happening in the movie. There even is a mirroring 20s band "Ace Hollywood & his Angel City Shufflers" in FRONT of the screen against the one (conducted by Christopher Rountree) doing Joseph LoDuca's re-imagined score behind it.
BTW after recently seeing a new bad ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with incoherent choreography, special kudos to Mark Swanheart for his on point mock choreography that made the whole thing even more hilarious and memorable. I am not sure how much of this young audience got to old references, like the THE KING AND I's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" take-off, but I did! Also thanks to my friend Carla Sanders who explained to me one I didn't get. It seems there is an old camping song called "Little Cabin in the Woods" and she even did all the hand gestures as they were doing them onstage. The show got a deserved standing ovation.
Whether it is THE LITTLE MERMAID, EVIL DEAD or this weekend's NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (which unfortunately this year I couldn't quite swing) I can give an unqualified recommendation. Richard Kraft never delivers a dead-in-the-water straight "to film" concert. He tends to marry it with an array of embellishments that help it come bursting off the screen and into the audience (and without glasses!) How many times do you leave these things begging for more?
And for you hardcore collectors I bought this $11 colored EVIL DEAD 45 vinyl there which seems to be going on Ebay for $50.
I still don't understand what this topic is talking about...
Okay I will sum it up even though I don't think I missed anything. Last Tuesday night there was a concert of Joseph LoDuca's music from the EVIL DEAD to-film. It was in downtown Los Angeles at the United artists picture palace. But it was much more than that thanks to Richard Kraft's embellishments described in my above review. But that may be too much reading for you.
