Best Slasher Movies » Bruce Campbell http://www.bestslashermovies.com It's not all horror flicks and screams, ya know! Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:13:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Army of Darkness (1992) http://www.bestslashermovies.com/2009/08/army-of-darkness-1992/ http://www.bestslashermovies.com/2009/08/army-of-darkness-1992/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:22:34 +0000 slasherella http://www.bestslashermovies.com/?p=142 I really had to mull over whether or not to include Army of Darkness on this site or not. Its a great movie – one of my favorites – but it isn’t really a slasher flick. The gore from the first two movies (Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn) is more or less gone and there is little ‘horror movie’ about it, but I decided it belongs here in interest of completing the series. Besides, it’s an awesome movie and worth watching for Bruce Campbell alone. It’s cheesy and over the top, but it is an evil dead movie, so what else would you expect.

Quick Review: A fitting end (?) to the Evil Dead trilogy, this movie is comedy horror at its best – even if it is a little light on the horror.

]]> http://www.bestslashermovies.com/2009/08/army-of-darkness-1992/feed/ 0 Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987) http://www.bestslashermovies.com/2009/08/evil-dead-ii-dead-by-dawn-1987/ http://www.bestslashermovies.com/2009/08/evil-dead-ii-dead-by-dawn-1987/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:56:52 +0000 slasherella http://www.bestslashermovies.com/?p=139 Bruce Campbell reprises his role of Ash – zombie slayer extraordinaire – in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn; the comedy/horror sequel to the brilliant The Evil Dead.

I’ve heard Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn referred to as a horror masterpiece and I agree wholeheartedly. It has everything – some sincerely scary scenes, gore, evil zombies, an ass kicking hero and lots of laughs.

This isn’t a movie that’s meant to be taken seriously. I’m sure that goes without saying (see Ash fighting his own possessed hand) but I think that’s the problem a lot of people had with this movie, and this series in general. The Evil Dead movies are just a bloody good time. Keeping that in mind, I can’t see how anyone couldn’t love this movie. Top notch. A true classic.

Quick Review: Required watching for any blood lusting gore-hound.

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Army of Darkness

Blu-Ray

Army of Darkness (Screwhead Edition) [Blu-ray]

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Here we have the movie that started it all. Made on a $50, 000 budget, The Evil Dead doesn’t rely on special effects and CGI to scare its audience. Sam Raimi’s makes the best of the budget and achieves his goal – to scare the living daylights out of his eager audience.

What you see is what you get with this movie. I’m sure I don’t have to mention that Bruce Campbell as Ash may be one of the best performances in any zombie movie ever made.

There is plenty of disturbing gore and that’s what makes it the horror classic it is. And it is a classic. Legendary. I compel anyone who disagrees to find one gore-hound that hasn’t heard of the ‘tree rape’ scene.

Quick Review: Don’t think too much into this one, folks. The Evil Dead wasn’t made to make you think, it was made to make you scream and it accomplishes its task at every turn. Long live Ash! The zombie hero slasher flicks deserve.

Love the movie? Buy the DVD:

Evil Dead II

Blu-Ray

Evil Dead II: Kiss Your Nerves Goodbye [Blu-ray]

Check out the incredible Evil Dead 2: Book of the Dead limited edition DVD set

The Evil Dead 2 (Book Of The Dead Limited Edition)

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