Ash VS Evil Dead

Kilroy was here · Nov 18, 2014

Groovy

Turn on the lights!
Obsessed with the Evil Dead series? Well, get excited because the hit horror franchise is coming to the small screen in 2015.
Starz announced its plan to air Ash vs. Evil Dead, a 10 half-hour episode miniseries, with the 1981 film's star Bruce Campbell set to reprise the role of Ash and director Sam Raimi executive-producing. Raimi will also direct the pilot.
"I'm really excited to bring this series to the Evil Dead fans worldwide," Campbell said in a statement. "it's going to be everything they have been clamoring for: serious deadite ass-kicking and plenty of outrageous humor."

Raimi added, "Evil Dead has always been a blast. Bruce, Rob [Tapert], and I are thrilled to have the opportunity to tell the next chapter in Ash's lame, but heroic saga. With his chainsaw arm and his ‘boomstick,' Ash is back to kick some monster butt. And brother, this time there's a truckload of it."
Set 30 years after the first film, Ash vs. Evil Dead will follow Ash, who has spent the last three decades "avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of Evil Dead," as he is forced to finally face his demons after a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind. "Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its 'Evil' grip," Starz said in its release.
"With Sam writing and directing and Bruce Campbell returning to the screen, we are certain the show will give Evil Dead fans around the world the fix they've been craving," Carmi Zlotnik, Managing Director of Starz, promised.
Ash vs. Evil Dead will air in 2015 on Starz.
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JEA13 · Nov 18, 2014

Shop smart.

steely · Dec 7, 2014

Shop s mart!!!

Can't wait! !!!

melthebell · Mar 27, 2015

anybody know when this is gonna be on tv?

Morgotha · Jul 1, 2015

Ooh! I'll get back to you!

I used to love Bruce Campbell in these, I hope it's not a total disaster.

Kilroy was here · Jul 1, 2015

Hail to the King Baby!

Give him some sugar, baby, because Ash has returned after a 22-year-haitus from fighting deadites. And we’ve got your first groovy image of Bruce Campbell back as Ash right here.
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Yep, Campbell will once again be playing everyone’s favorite dim-witted warrior when Starz resurrects the Evil Dead franchise this fall with 10 episodes of Ash vs Evil Dead. As you can tell from the image above, Ash (who is still a stock boy) is once again ready to face his demons, and this time he’s got two folks to help him get the job done in fellow Value Stop employees Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana Delorenzo), seen above.
So what has Ash been up to for the past two decades? “Not much!” says Campbell. “He was perfectly happy doing basically nothing: telling lies about how he lost his hand in bars late at night. That was basically his MO. So, he’s not really the guy who should be dealing with this right now. But…he is. He’s our guy!”
He’s also the guy who yet again is accidently responsible for unleashing the evil dead back upon the world. “He’s the only one stupid enough to really tamper with those spirits,” says Sam Raimi, who directed the first episode of the new series. “And he does. But he’s also still a really good monster fighter. So, he’s also going to be kicking some deadite buttocks, if you’ll pardon the French.”
“It’s The Searchers with carnage and mayhem,” adds Campbell of the newest chapter in the Evil Dead saga. “I’m relegated a little bit into the John Wayne mode these days with my team—the young, virile, evil fighters who will pair up with Ash and take on this nemesis: this never ending, ever evolving nemesis.”
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Morgotha · Jul 2, 2015

Kilroy was here said: ↑

Hail to the King Baby!

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Ash isn't a stock boy anymore! Now he's a stock... Man!

rabscuttle1 · Jul 2, 2015

There will be boomsticks and deadites everywhere!

Kilroy was here · Jul 11, 2015

"My heart is jackhammering like a quarterback on prom night."

[video=youtube;unnLg1TPCYM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unnLg1TPCYM&feature=youtu.be[/video]

ImDrunk · Jul 15, 2015

So excited for this one!

Morgotha · Jul 16, 2015

It's not a very good weapon Jefe....

Kilroy was here · Oct 19, 2015

Coming on All Hallows Eve

We caught the groovy world premiere of Ash vs. Evil Dead, and we're happy to say the violence and comedy is back. Grab an axe.
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This Ash vs. Evil Dead review is spoiler-free.
It's been 23 years since Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Rob Tapert depicted horror's greatest loudmouth, Ash Williams, mugging before cameras in between bouts of gore and groan-inducing one-liners. And for the last 22 years, fans have been asking the filmmakers about when there was going to be another adventure featuring the braggart and his trusty chainsaw.
That wait came to an end at New York Comic Con when Starz's Ash vs. Evil Dead premiered before a ballroom full of primitive screwheads. The sea of chainsaw-shaped foam fingers was greeted by Bruce Campbell who ostensibly came onstage to introduce a clip while telling a story about his parents. But before he could finish the second sentence, out walked Sam Raimi who gladly belittled and bullied his grade school chum: shut up and play the whole pilot for the fans.
Obviously this was rehearsed. But much like the actual series premiere episode of Ash vs. Evil Dead, that playfully mean-spirited cruelty is what fuels your enjoyment in its best moments and helps buoy an exposition-heavy introduction into something eminently gory and entertaining. In short, this is definitely Evil Dead, baby. Grab an axe.

The pilot seems structured like the first act of Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi’s long bandied about Evil Dead 4 treatment. The opening scene of the episode is also what has appeared in all the trailers: Ash Williams still prepares for battle in the morning with severe intensity and the rapid-fire editing of extreme close-ups. Except instead of donning boomsticks, plates of armor, and that elusive chainsaw, he is popping on a man-girdle and dentures with a smile: the war is now with middle age and he is losing it. Badly.
Raimi, who also directed the pilot, uses his famously efficient style of storytelling to develop a world that has not changed much for Ash since the end of Army of Darkness, which is perhaps the most pathetic thing about the character. He is still a boozing womanizer who uses his missing hand to pick up chicks at the bar, and he still works at a massive retail store—now “Value Stop” instead of “S-Mart”—where depending on who you ask of his colleagues, he is either the coolest or lamest thing about the place.
It is also those co-workers who represent the pilot’s first of two major transitions for television. Unlike any of the previous Evil Dead films, there is a true supporting cast here dominated by Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo). Pablo idolizes Ash as a wise man, and Kelly sees him for the sad sack piece of trailer trash he has become (or perhaps always has been?). But both find renewed purpose for him when the Deadites come calling.
How the Deadites actually return is one of the best jokes of the premiere that is too good to give away. Simply rest assured that the strained logic for the evil spirits in the woods to once again rise all but guarantees that Ash is already television’s greatest fool, and he isn't even on episode two.
But perhaps at first glance, the episode would seem to spend too much time underlining that point. In setting the tone of the series, the 30-minute pilot spends time aplenty with Ash behaving as ever the scoundrel while holding back on some of the visual flourishes fans tend to expect. There is the definite sense that Raimi is restraining himself behind-the-camera from the kind of elaborate forced, cant angles and inventive filmmaking that elevated the Evil Dead trilogy from mere schlock and into the realm of something deviously special.
... That is until the last 10 minutes or so of the 30-minute pilot. Ash vs. Evil Dead might appear stilted by relying on that familiar B-horror shorthand of archetypal characters and traditional horror set-ups, and the sudden inclusion of CGI, as opposed to stop-motion animation and the gallons of blood, for the pilot's most elaborate effects can at times feel like a concession. Still... just wait for those last 10 minutes.
To quibble about storytelling tropes or the hue of blood in an Evil Dead project is missing the forest for the demonically possessed raping trees. And to be certain, the Ash vs. Evil Dead pilot is holding back almost all of its best stuff for a kidney punch of fun for the diehards (and just a kidney punch for Campbell).
While much of the first half of the episode seems poised to set-up how the storyline can work weekly with Ash interacting with other characters in far less elaborate situations—wherein the best stuff is some classic sight gags that would not be out of place in an Abbott and Costello or Three Stooges routine—the second half is delayed wish fulfillment and fan satisfaction. Raimi lets loose when the Deadites come after Ash in force, and every single beloved weapon, one-liner, and aggressive “Force” shot with Dutch angles is delivered in a bountiful gush of crimson red.
By the premiere's end, most of one's doubts are put to bed and Bruce Campbell is allowed to strike a pose that you might have forgotten you missed. And unlike other resuscitated TV series stars who aired a sleepy pilot premiere at NYCC this weekend, Campbell both on stage and on the screen in Ash vs. Evil Dead looks ecstatic to be here. After 30 years, he knows this character and he fits into the role as comfortably as a steel-iron glove. His comedic timing might have even improved since we last saw that Chin cracking wise to soul-sucking hellions of the pit.
As a bit of narrative storytelling, fans will have to wait to see how this works as a week-to-week series. Raimi only filmed the first episode, and a character as hammy as Ash Williams interacting with people who aren’t dead five minutes later might remain a challenge. However, there are some interesting story threads sown away from the boomstick.
The most promising of which is Amanda Fisher (Jill Marie Jones), who participates in the other great set-piece of the episode. The best Deadite attack of the night occurs when showrunner Craig DiGregorio and Raimi pay tribute to Linda Blair in The Exorcist and do her one better by showcasing an entire demonic attack with a head screwed on backwards (there is also even a horror-junkie-delight homage to one of the better scares in The Exorcist III).
It is also in this story thread where Lucy Lawless’ Ruby Knowby is introduced in a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo—a down payment on presumably good things to come. These two women represent the living humans Ash’s idiocy leaves behind in its narcissistic wake. That might be the very best reason to rationalize a weekly serial with this guy.
Well, that plus the groovy blood-letting and one-liners. The pilot offers all of that by the end in a delayed satisfaction of violence that is a rush to behold. Whatever else can be said about the episode, there is no denying that when it is over, Evil Dead fans will be chomping at the bit to slice through another one.
Welcome back, Ash Williams, you magnificent bastard.
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Kilroy was here · Oct 31, 2015

Starts tonight; here's the first four minutes.

[video=youtube;QOQa0btC_Do]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOQa0btC_Do[/video]

Kilroy was here · Oct 31, 2015

First episode. Everything you loved about the movies is back.

Felicia · Nov 1, 2015

I admit to taking my sons to the Evil Dead musical, wearing a plastic poncho because of the splatter, and then getting soaked with red goo because I jerked my hands up to cover my head when the blood splatter came, and getting soaked all the way down to my red chucks. hah. Loved it and hope this series is half what I am anticipating.

Bassman · Nov 1, 2015

Oops.....I didn't realize this thread existed and created another one...

I don't have starz, but am currently loading the pilot episode and very, very much look forward to it! All the reviews point to it absolutely living up to fan's expectations.

Bassman · Nov 2, 2015

Yep yep.....it absolutely lives up to the expectations. I had such a blast from start to finish, it felt like the first episode was maybe 15 minutes long. Absolutely can not wait for the rest of season one and the already announced season two!

9/10

LadyGrimes · Nov 2, 2015

I saw it finally and it does live up to my expectations. Can't wait for more, I think I have a new favorite series.

ImDrunk · Nov 3, 2015

Felt like a kid again! that series premiere was...

Cavedeth · Nov 5, 2015

Watching it now.

OMG I am SO FREAKING EXCITED!!

gaaaahhhhaHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

And Xena to boot? GROOVY!!

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