Bruce Campbell, Lucy Lawless and Gore, is Ash vs. Evil Dead Perfect TV Horror?

I have to admit that everything I read about Ash vs. Evil Dead gets me excited. I’m one of those people who loved the Evil Dead films, and used to rent out Army of Darkness on VHS when I was too young to actually buy the film, I just loved everything about it.

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What I’m noticing though when I read Bruce Campbell’s comments is something that has me even more interested…there is a very real feel of a Xena reunion in all of this. In a recent article on IGN he was quoted as saying this about Lucy Lawless:

“[She’s] a great addition to this too,” Campbell said. “As soon as we knew we were going to do this show, it was like, well, what’s Lucy doing? Because it’s important. Life’s too short. I want to work with people that make sense, that can bring it, that people enjoy watching on the screen and that we know that we have a good relationship with.”

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On her character in the show Sam Raimi added:

“And we needed a powerful adversary for Ash,” Raimi explained. “You know, for his sort of character. Somebody that could be formidable and who could kick his butt. Because he’s the real monster fighter. He’s dealing with these beasts every day, slicing ’em and dicing ’em. And so we needed a human being that had some heart and soul and some gravitas and some threat to them when she wanted to pull it out. I think that’s why Lucy was a great choice.”

To me this is all good, I want to see a Lucy Lawless that will kick ass. I don’t know whether we’ll get a Xena remake that lives up to what she did in the original, but I want Lawless standing tall and if anything being the female Ash. If anybody can do that, she can.

For anybody who has feared the show won’t be bloody (well have you see then trailer?) Campbell had this to say:

“Our criteria for finding a suitor for this show was who will let us do what we need to do in an unrestricted fashion,” Campbell said. “Two out of the three Evil Dead movies were unrated, so it would be silly for us to rip the fans off by giving them a watered down version of this series. So the beauty of working with Starz is we have no content restriction whatsoever, and that’s vitally important as filmmakers.”

I think it is fair to say that Ash vs. Evil Dead is going to be awesome isn’t it? It premieres on October 31st in America…The UK will no doubt be getting it, or I’ll be very pissed off.

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