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All right you primitive screwheads...this episode is devoted to our friend Ashley Williams! Yes, we're taking a trip through the Evil Dead films and TV series. When the original Evil Dead movie first came out, it really shook things up. The camera angles and movements, the strange sound effects, the story, and of course, the charismatic Bruce Campbell, all added up to a hit with horror audiences.
Your Planet 8 crew will talk about the origins of the Evil Dead film series, how Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell got the idea for the first film and financed it, and was it connected at all to an older film called Equinox? All this and more!
Finally we take a look at the Ash vs. Evil Dead TV show. It only lasted three seasons, but it was well done and really expanded the Evil Dead universe. Will there be more Evil Dead? Perhaps the truth is hidden in the pages of the Necronomicon...
That's all this time, friends and neighbors. Be sure to share your thoughts on Ash and the Evil Dead. Do you enjoy this film/TV series? Can you see it going on without Bruce Campbell as Ash? We want to know! And you know the drill by now...
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Great episode. It's been a while, but I've seen all three of the original movies (the first one in high school), the other two - which I agree are much better - later.
ReplyDeleteThe best part of the first movie is opening sequences, with the main characters going to that cabin in the woods, accompanied by the grumbling of the malevolent entity we never see. Suitably creepy, and it resonated with me in particular because I grew up in a pretty rural part of Oregon. Lots of farms in the area, but with interspersed patches of woods that often had old abandoned barns or wood sheds in them. We used to horse around those as kids and speculate that ghosts or monsters lived there...
I've only seen a few episodes of Ash, but I really like the show. Generally, I'm a fan of Bruce Campbell and like it whenever he shows up in anything, whether TV shows like Brisco County or even Burn Notice, in which he plays a supporting character, or movies liked the excellent Bubba Ho-Tep or My Name is Bruce-.
Edo Bosnar
Love Bubba Ho-Tep! I could do a whole episode just on that. 😉
ReplyDeleteOh, man. I'd love a Bubba Ho-Tep episode! You can call me as a guest if Larry & Karen aren't as well-versed about it.
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