Day 11, Evil Dead Trilogy

1981’s dark horse movie Evil Deadintroduced the world to Bruce Campbell and Sam Rami. Evil Dead made very little money on its own but people with important names and large checkbooks loved it. 1987 brought the world many important things that have nothing to do with Evil Dead: 2. Rami lost the rights to his creation, and had to start over again, sort of, but with more money. Campbell returned and reprised his role as the beaten down everyman hero known only as, Ash.

In 1993 an Army of Darknesslaid siege to American cinema. Rami and Campbell returned to the screen with a surge of zombie ridden horror comedy unseen by any audience before. Bad jokes, sprays of blood, references to classic mythos, and a chainsaw hand are the only way to top the two previous movies. If you see one Bruce Campbell movie this year, he won’t care which one it is, because he’s getting royalty rights for it. Give him some sugar baby.