Post by Flynn on Mar 25, 2018 14:11:24 GMT
It's both. It starts out being (or sttempting to be) scary. But when the filmmakers assembled the film around halfway through filming, they realized that the film was more funny than scary. So then they start pushing the humor more towards the end.
It was with Evil Dead 2 where they brought in the comedy.
I don't recall exactly what my source was. It could have been Bruce Campbell's autobiography, as I do remember reading about how they had to shut down filming for a period while they scraped up funds to finish it.
But nevertheless, I do see a pretty clear moment where the deadites go from being a kind of heartfelt creepy that happens to come across as funny to a kind of funny that has its roots in creepy. I think my reading of this moment is supported by the fact that the filmmakers never return to the creepy vibe established in the first half of the first film. It's always comedy through creepiness, never just creepy. And I'm talking about part 2 and 3 as well.
The filmmakers surely must have realized that their creepy horror film was actually a comedy, and just wentt with it in order to not lose their investment. For part 2, they decided to remake it in full as a comedy.