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Sam Raimi's 1981 horror debut fused slapstick excess with supernatural terror, spawning sequels, a remake, and a television continuation. The franchise embodies cult cinema's DIY ethos and horror-comedy's enduring appeal through escalating inventive carnage.

Starz Gave ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ a Hilariously Pointless Note About Ash’s Gun Safety

There are a lot of reasons horror fans have spent more than four decades loving Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, but Campbell thinks one of the biggest is pretty simple: Ash is just some fucking guy.

During an appearance on The Adam Carolla Show this week, Campbell reflected on the incredible devotion of Evil Dead fans, including the countless Ash tattoos he’s encountered over the years, before explaining why he thinks people continue to connect with the character.

“I think my theory of Ash is the everyman hero,” Campbell told Adam Carolla. “He’d be killed by a ricochet. He’s had no Army training.”

That philosophy apparently caused some confusion while Campbell and Sam Raimi were making Starz’s Ash vs. Evil Dead.

“We got a note from Starz during the middle of making the show: Ash was doing improper and unsafe shotgun handling,” Campbell recalled.

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Everything New on Prime Video in September

There are several noteworthy originals premiering on Amazon’s Prime Video this month. On Sept. 16, the streamer is set to roll out its “Reacher” spinoff “Neagley,” which gives Maria Sten’s fan-favorite “Reacher” standout Frances her turn in the spotlight.

A week later, “The Love Hypothesis” is slated to make its long-awaited premiere on Sept. 23. Based on Ali Hazelwood’s novel of the same name, director Claire Scanlon’s new film stars Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman as a professor and his PhD student who start a fake relationship to test their theories about love.

This month, the streamer has also added a number of classic films to its platform,

Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill review – Time Travel, Lisa Wilcox, and a Camp Slasher Make for a Fun Sequel

Plot: On a quest to recover the scattered pieces of a medallion capable of ending demonic control over Earth, demon hunter Taryn Barker must travel through time to change the past and save the future.

Review: A decade ago, director Zoe Kavanagh made her feature debut with an independent action horror film called Taryn Barker: Demon Hunter, which blended elements of Underworld, The Evil Dead, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to tell the story of a young Irish woman (played by Niamh Hogan) who was recruited into a life of fighting against the forces of evil after her younger sister was murdered. It was an interesting, entertaining movie and a cool,

Joe Swanberg Sets Next Film: Shiloh Fernandez and Marc Senter Star in Chicago-Set Indie Rock Dramedy (Exclusive)

Indie auteur Joe Swanberg is ready to rock.

Swanberg is writing, editing and directing an as-yet-untitled 35mm dramedy in Chicago. Shiloh Fernandez and Marc Senter star as Lucas Hunter and Oliver Cross, founders of an indie rock band named Fast Star.

Per the logline, “two longtime indie rock musicians’ band gets an unexpected second wind after a younger, newly popular rapper samples one of their old songs. Suddenly back in the spotlight and on tour, their increasingly different approaches to middle age push long-simmering personal and creative tensions to the breaking point.”

Kali Skrap, Karley Sciortino and Chris Tuttle round out the cast. Kevin Veselka is the cinematographer on the feature.

The film is a Last Encore and Ghost Gang production, in association with 3Links Productions. Senter, Ashleigh Snead, Nathan Crooker, Swanberg and Sean E. DeMott are producers on the project. Kathy Gitibin Parsa, Ariana Parsa, John Greenberg, Ray Blanchard

Horror Highlights: Buddy, An Evening with Kane Hodder, The Otherkind

“Buddy” Emerges As The Latest Indie-horror Box Office Success: "Buddy, the film about the bright orange unicorn, emerges as the latest indie-horror success, making it the highest opening this year for films showing under 1800 screens.

The Roadside Attractions and Saban Film’s release grossed an estimated $5,363,827 for this weekend at only 1258 screens, doubling box office projections.

Buddy is Roadside Attraction’s highest opening weekend since the pandemic and also its second highest opening in its 23-year history. The film is also Saban Films’ highest opening in its 12-year history.

This is a pivotal moment for indie horror as Buddy joins the ranks of Terrifier, Clown in a Cornfield and Luc Besson’s Dracula.

The Bizarre Cult Sci-fi Classic ‘Donnie Darko’ Is Now Free to Watch

A cult classic isn't necessarily a movie everyone loved when it came out. Sometimes it's the movie that found its audience years later — passed around between friends, endlessly quoted, rediscovered on late-night cable, and eventually embraced by a devoted group of fans.

Some are straightforward genre favorites, like The Evil Dead or The Warriors. Others are considerably stranger. Heathers, Napoleon Dynamite, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show all have wildly different sensibilities, but they share that same ability to inspire the kind of devotion that turns a movie into something bigger than its original release.

One of the best examples is now free to watch on YouTube.

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Bruce Campbell's Elvis-Themed, Low-Budget Horror Movie Deserves A Bigger Audience

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Bruce Campbell is a genre legend. Though he's best known as Ash from the "Evil Dead" franchise, he's one of those character actors who has been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, leaving hidden gems along the way. Once such hidden gem also happens to be one of the best movies ever made by "Phantasm" director Don Coscarelli: "Bubba Ho-Tep."

Released in 2002, the movie centers on a now aged Elvis Presley (Campbell) who winds up in an East Texas nursing home. Naturally, nobody believes he's actually who he says he is. There, he befriends

Ridley Scott Says ‘Alien: Romulus’ Was Just “Okay,” Is Rewriting the Next ‘Alien’

Just a few days ago, we reported that Ridley Scott’s long-dead third Alien prequel was apparently back in the works, with the filmmaker planning to finally pick up where Alien: Covenant left off nearly a decade ago.

Now Scott has gone considerably further.

Speaking with French outlet AlloCiné, the director of the original Alien revealed that he has personally returned to the franchise and is rewriting the next movie.

And apparently Alien: Romulus helped convince him to do it.

“I suddenly went back and got involved,” Scott said. “The one that just came out last year was okay. I think it needs some help. So I’ve gone back in.”

Back in October 2023, Fede Álvarez revealed after an early screening of the film that Scott walked into the room and told him, “Fede, what can I say? It’s fucking great.”

Then, during the actual promotional run for Romulus

Five FrightFest Facts with Martijn Smits from ‘Meat Kills’

For many filmmakers, horror is a stepping stone to other genres. For Dutch director Martijn Smits, it’s always been home. From wearing out VHS copies of cult classics as a teenager to directing award-winning horror shorts and internationally successful features, Smits has spent decades pursuing a passion for genre filmmaking. While he has found huge success directing family films in his native Netherlands, his heart has never strayed far from blood, gore and the darker corners of cinema.

His latest film, Meat Kills, sees him return to horror in uncompromising fashion. Set against the backdrop of the livestock industry and the increasingly polarised debate surrounding animal activism, the film

Prime Video’s New Stephen King Adaptation Breaks a Mike Flanagan Casting Streak

Prime Video is getting a piece of the Stephen King adaptations with the upcoming Carrie. It also comes from frequent King collaborator Mike Flanagan, who is switching from Netflix to Prime Video.

Flanagan has often worked with the same actors, some more than others. Carrie will feature a long list of returning Flanaverse stars, including Samantha Sloyan, Matthew Lillard, and, of course, Kate Siegel. In a new interview with TVLine, Midnight Mass actor Zach Gilford confirmed he is, sadly, not a part of Carrie.

Carrie Breaks a Casting Trend for Midnight Mass Star

Zach Gilford previously worked with Mike Flanagan on three limited series in a row: Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club,

After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws. As one by one they transform into deadites, she comes to discover that the vows she took in life - survive even in death.

A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Nell Fisher, Gabrielle Echols, Alyssa Sutherland, and Morgan Davies in Evil Dead Rise (2023)

Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.

Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

When Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.

Embeth Davidtz and Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness (1992)

Ash has spent the last thirty years avoiding responsibility, maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.

Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

1972 period piece about a French woman trapped in an abusive marriage who must contend with her husband's monstrous family

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