review of ash vs evil dead

LOVED IT.

Now that's how you make a show.

I grew up on everything raimi on tv, it's in my DNA. I watched Xena, hercules, Jack of all trades.

Whether it was intended or not, I have some connection to bruce Campbell having stumbled upon Brisco County on Irc Chat years ago in high school. Didn't know what the show was, but I did recall I saw eps of it as a kid one night and thought it was like a back to the future tv show, which it most certainly was not.

What it was, brilliant. It was a western version of sherlock holmes meets indiana jones to some degree with some scifi elements thrown in and it was awesome. Just a great underrated gem from the 90s that you will NEVER ever see made again, EVER.

But anyway Bruce Campbell is back playing Ash to shut fans up about it pretty much. What do I think about that, Awesome!

I never understood the evil dead phenomenon as a kid. I saw the movies all over those goth stores and in those movie stores all throughout my childhood evil dead this evil dead that. Apparently it was quite popular, I didn't give a fuck about it...

If you haven't sat and watched all three of those movies, you are insane. Those are how you make movies especially Army of Darkness, it's like a master class in how to make a goddamn classic film.

Oh the stuff I've missed through sheer ignorance I gotta say, what a fucking idiot. But yeah I finally decided to run through the entire series last month and was just floored by the experience. Best movie series I've seen in a long ass time. I mean let's get into it...

I did indeed watch Evil Dead 1 while at college, I did. I got that movie to give it a whirl, whatever. Shit was intense, not bad, really fun.

Now as everyone's made it clear things take a turn for more comedic and action oriented style with the next two films. I don't have a problem with that. I'm all about movies being fun and entertaining and full of humor, joyless cinema not my cup of tea so I'm glad they decided to take the turn they did.

It's much better. My personal favorite is Army of Darkness. It reminds me of like all those weird off beat movies I watched as a kid. Mortal Kombat etc. Just such a 90s era film, reeks of it. But I grew up in that time, so I'm like totally on board with that style of film making. 90s films were mostly shot with real sets, out doors, lots of actual scenes dedicated to building characters cuz fx weren't top notch at the time... so that's what I'm used to seeing, those kinds of films.

I don't know how the series makes sense of the ending of Army of Darkness that's the thing. At the end of the movie, Ash fucked up the reading of the time travel spell and brought the dead ites with him him to the future so at the end he's having to continue his fight with them. But the series says that he's been able to avoid them for 30 years just relax until he read from the book by accident one night.

I guess he was able to escape them for a long time at the end, then, what do I know...

Good stuff, can't wait for the next episode....