![]() ![]() An absurd and glorious mini-sequelīut that’s both a blessing and a curse. While it doesn’t fit neatly after any single entry from a continuity perspective (never a strong suit of the franchise), it nonetheless plays as a true mini-sequel: gory, fun, absurd, and outright glorious at times. Evil Dead feels cut from the exact same cloth as the films. ![]() From his trademark dynamic camera to the exuberant use of gore (the filmmaker has said that Starz enforced no creative limitations, and it shows I can’t think of a single episode of television that has had this much blood in it) Ash vs. Raimi stepped behind the camera for the debut episode, "El Jefe," and his freewheeling creative sensibilities are unmistakeable. At least this early in the series, the focus is on resurrecting Ash, and it’s where the bulk of the episode’s fun and running time are spent. Two other storylines are awkwardly threaded through the pilot episode - Jill Marie Jones is a detective investigating murders related to the demonic infestation, and former Xena star Lucy Lawless makes a brief appearance as a mysterious character that Seems To Know Things - but they play as afterthoughts. But while partying a little too hard one night Ash gets high and decides to impress a woman by passing off a passage from the Necronomicon as poetry, and soon the demonic forces he hasn’t faced in decades are after him again.Īlong for the ride are Pablo (Ray Santiago), a naive retail coworker that still sees greatness in Ash, and Dana DeLorenzo as Kelly, a young woman that recognizes him for the failure that he is. An aging Ash lives alone in a trailer, spending his days working at a big box retailer (sorry, Army of Darkness fans, but it’s not S-Mart) and his nights listening to Deep Purple and trolling bars. Evil Dead ignores Fede Alvarez’s grisly 2013 reboot and picks right up with the original trilogy’s gonzo mix of horror and comedy. ![]() Picks up the original trilogy's gonzo mix of horror and comedyĪsh vs. But what started as a no-budget horror flick became equal parts comedy over time, with the films increasingly incorporating Raimi’s love for slapstick and pivoting around Ash’s tendency to always do the wrong thing at the wrong time (for all the wrong reasons). Over the course of the films Ash’s friends are killed, he’s forced to chop off his hand - he replaces it with a chainsaw, natch - and in the final movie ends up fighting the demonic Deadites in 1300 AD. If you’re not familiar with the original Evil Dead trilogy (and if you like either The Exorcist or The Three Stooges, you really should be), the films center around Ash, an egotistical, sexist coward that is forced to face an unspeakable evil when an incantation is read from a book bound in human flesh: the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. ![]()
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