Hail to the Deadites first published by VODzilla.co “Everything you see in the next 80 minutes was created by Evil Dead fans” reads the blood-red text that opens Steve Villeneuve’s documentary, before the last three words are slashed away and replaced with ‘Deadites’. Make no mistake: Hail to the Deadites is a film by the…
Bubba Ho-Tep first published by Movie Gazette, Oct 2004 In the Shady Rest Convalescence Home in Mud Creek, Texas, people are dying. No mystery there, you might think, as this is the final resting place for the aged, the infirm and the demented – yet an elderly patient (Bruce Campbell) with a cancerous ‘pecker’ who…
For the love of cheap thrills: gonzo auteurism and The Evil Dead first published by Little White Lies Although he had been making amateur Super-8 films for years with childhood friend Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi had only just turned 20 when he started shooting his feature debut The Evil Dead in late 1979, and was, in…