todd stone
Screenwriter
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"The Evil Dead" is a pure horror film, much in the same vein as "Night of the Living Dead", "Demons", etc.Interesting, because i always thought the evil dead was hilarious even before i saw 2 and 3. I thought it was intended to be campy and comedic.
Interesting, because i always thought the evil dead was hilarious even before i saw 2 and 3. I thought it was intended to be campy and comedic.I think it's a case in which the movie was intended to be a straight horror film, but Raimi and his crew were all such Three Stooges fanatics that they couldn't fully suppress their urges in that direction and the movie ended up being darkly comical
Hey, I like the 3 Stooges as well as the next guy, but the whole medieval thing, c'mon, and what is up with the damned chainsaw.
The chainsaw comes from Evil Dead 2, where Ash used it to cut off, and then to substitute for, his possessed hand. Perhaps a takeoff on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies? (Anyone recall the dates?)
Evil Dead 2 also foreshadows (no doubt, deliberately) the whole medieval thing.