Ash vs Evil Dead

Sometimes you sometimes watch those films, which, deliberately or otherwise, are so incredibly bad that you really have to like them. Tarantino and Rodriguez, in particular, are true masters of the cultured B-movie world. Who does not remember Danny Trejo, who jumped through that window with his pockmarked head in Machete and used the colon of his attacker as a safety line? At the time, I could hardly suppress the urge to get up in the middle of the cinema and applaud hysterically. Or that end of Death Proof, in which Rosario Dawson (Marry me!) With her friends kept pounding on Kurt Russel's head until it sounded like they were beating a ripe watermelon. Loved it. So far, unfortunately, we have not really seen this genre in series land and that was, according to the man behind the film series Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, sniffed from the rats. He thundered into Starz's office on high legs and kept hitting the table stoically, until someone with a little decision-making power came to speak to him et voilà… Ten episodes Ash vs Evil Dead in pocket and the viewer is going so well notice that things have already been extended for a second round halfway through season one. It's been thirty years since Ash lost all his friends on a camping trip that got out of hand. What started as a cozy vacation somewhere in a remote log cabin in the woods, turns into an unprecedented bloodbath. Accidentally summoned demons take possession of the bodies of Ash's friends and provide holiday snaps that you really don't want to revisit later with your family while enjoying a cup of coffee and a slice of cake. Ash doesn't come out of the fight completely unscathed either. An evil force takes control of his right hand, and Ash has no choice but to attack himself with a chainsaw. Well, that's how those things go. It is now 2015 and Ash has decided to stop worrying about things after all that misery. Ash doesn't really care about anything anymore. He lives at a trailer park in a dilapidated caravan, at the age of sixty, still ricochets lonely babes in the toilet of the pub (ok, we'd all like that) and pays his weed from a clumsy job at the local Media Market. When he's attacked there in the warehouse by a bloodthirsty Barbie, Ash realizes he's probably not just having this doll dancing. The dead are back and they are hungry. He soon finds out that he himself has helped this problem out into the world and there is no other option than to tie the chainsaw back up and fight evil. After series like Fargo, 12 Monkeys, From Dusk Till Dawn, Limitless and Minority Report, this is yet another attempt to take a movie from the big to the small screen and that's, unlike some of its predecessors, I think quite successful. Ash vs Evil Dead may be a bit more camp than the films Evil Dead and Army Of Darkness of which it is related, but that makes it a series that can be viewed by a slightly wider audience. A slightly broader audience, because there will still be enough people who find this perfect. It's a bit like dressed up as cowboys go to De Toppers ... Either you love it or you think it's the result of severe oxygen deficiency at birth and the result of years of eating microwave meals and watching SBS6, there is actually a middle ground not. I liked Ash vs Evil Dead. Not “16,234-people-have-given-these-on-IMDb-mean-a-9”, but definitely worth a look. Even if, like me, you have not seen the earlier films at all. In an overkill of hospital, police and dysfunctional family series it is something different and different is good. Something with peanut butter and have that on your bread every day. Do you love peanut butter? Then stay very far away from this one. If you like a slice of that weird under-the-counter sausage from the butcher on your bread every now and then, give Ash vd Evil Dead a try. www.gumstarr.com

Great first episode. Nice and over the top.