He continued, "But I love what Sam Raimi did. He was a 20-something-year-old guy with a camera and he wanted to do something crazy, so he did a lot of crazy shots and he wanted to shock the audience, and that's something I really identify with because I was this guy ... I did a lot of short movies with my team without any money or anything ... I also like the vision of Fede Álvarez, for example, in 2013 when he thought, 'Okay, let's do an
Evil Dead movie, but let's do it a more realistic way because now the audience grew up and now we need to have something less a bit ... I would say silly, less funny.' And I'm thinking about doing something that would give justice to both of these visions. The vision, the real vision, something realistic that hurts you, a mean movie that moves you, and when you go up to the theater, you are like, 'What the hell?'"
Vaniček also reflected on how much Raimi
was able to accomplish on the original film, regardless of his limited budget or feature-film experience.
"Something that's also kind of crazy, this 20-year-old guy with some crazy camera shots, and also the statement that Sam Raimi had about friendship, about love, about family, it's really important to me to stick with something that's is in the script, in the writing process," the director detailed. "I need to have strong characters. I need to have a big statement. I need to have an intelligent movie or smart movie. And after, as soon as I have this, I will be able to do something crazy and with a lot of Deadites and things like that, and to have a strong movie, but I need to have a really strong basis and I think that the strong basis is in Sam Raimi's work, so I'm trying to take the best of every part of even that."