EVIL DEAD: The Most Terrifying Film You Will Ever Experience

I originally posted this on another blog and I am re-posting it here on this day as this movie was first released on April 5, 2013

I ended up going to the movies today to see the new Evil Dead remake.  It's a movie I've been wanting to see since I heard about the remake and saw the first trailer.  That's right, for those of you that know me I actually watched the entire trailer.  

There have been a lot of horror remakes in the last few years, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St, Friday the 13th, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, just to name a few.  The common theme in all of these remakes is that the characters stay the same.  People judge them harshly because they don't want them messing with their favorite killer, like Rob Zombie did with his version of Halloween 2...really Zombie!! 

When I first heard of the remake of Evil Dead I felt the same, they better not mess up my beloved Ash.  Even with Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, & Bruce Campbell on board as producers I was hesitant.  Then I read that Ashley J. Williams would not be in the movie, in fact none of the original characters would be.  

 

This excited me because even if the movie was terrible, Ash would not be tarnished.  I'm not going to give anything away, I hate spoilers myself.  To clarify I don't usually watch trailers of movies that I know I want to see because I will remember something in trailer we haven't seen in the flick and it ruins it for me.  If I'm watching a trailer and I decide that I want to see the flick, then I shut the trailer off. 

This movie was anything but terrible!!  It was downright awesome!  Most likely I'm going to go and see it again!  There are a few elements from the original Evil Dead & Evil Dead 2 that are in this,  as you can see from the photo of Jane Levy below.  The biggest common factor being their are 2 males and 3 females for the cast, but that's all I'm going to say. 

Go watch the movie!  Seriously you will not regret it!  It's scary, it's vile, it's awesome!  Make sure you stay for the end of the credits, do not make that mistake and leave before, you will regret it when you hear about it later!

Evil Dead is top notch and the word of a sequel is already being rumored and I look forward to it.  Unless it goes the way of Zombie's Halloween 2...seriously what the hell were you thinking!

Trailers are linked below!

Later

Mike

 Above is the new, below are the trailers for the Original and Evil Dead 2 & Army of Darkness

Friday the 13th 40th Anniversary

Thanks to Twitter I was alerted that the original Friday the 13th film was released on May 9, 1980 making today it's 40th Anniversary.  Naturally that means that I'm going to be watching it tonight.

In fact that is exactly what I am doing right now while I type this, I'm 25 minutes in.  At night after everyone goes to bed I find myself alone wondering what to watch and I waste so much time picking something out.  I'm glad that the decision was made for me tonight.

There were so many low budget, cast of unknowns horror flicks in the 1980's.  I always thought it would be really cool to be in one someday.

In other ramblings, the last time I got my haircut and beard trimmed was at the end of February.  The boys and I have an appointment on May 22nd to get a trim.  My barber ship is 90 years old and they have never had appointments before, they have always been walk in only so this is weird for them.

Incidentally, they are not allowed to trim beards as we have to wear a mask while we get out hair cut so today I trimmed my own beard.  I have messed it up in the past and had to shave the whole thing off and start over so I've always just let Julie do it to ensure I don't mess it up.  Julie has been cutting my hair for almost 20 years.

I have one of those manscape trimmers, I put the 6 mm guide on it and just trimmed it all down.  It actually looks pretty good.  I won't dare try to cut my own hair though. 

Until Next Time