His fellow “Value Stop” workers Pablo Simon Bolivar, a brilliant comedic turn by Ray Santiago, and Kelly Maxwell, played by Dana DeLorenzo, join forces with Ash when the deadites summoned by the ancient skin clad book the Necronomicon once again rear their ugly heads. His name may be in the title but this isn’t just the Ash show.
Then all hell breaks loose, and with almost a hint of relief, he revs up the chainsaw and loads his “boomstick”. Drifting from town to town, the aging lothario has found himself living in a trailer, working as a stock boy at “Value Stop” mart and telling tall tales at the local dive bar to impress the locals. Retaining the film’s hilarious line in pitch black humour and sating the bloodlust of the most demanding of gore-hounds the show acts as a sequel to the original trilogy, joining Ash 30 years after he returned from his Medieval time-travelling adventures from 1300 AD at the end of Army Of Darkness. And now that legend continues with Ash Vs Evil Dead. Two sequels followed that only added to the Ash, and Bruce Campbell, legend. The film also introduced audiences to Bruce Campbell who played Ash, the blood-soaked sole-survivor of a night of demonic possession that left all of Ash’s friends and his girlfriend in pieces. Sam Raimi’s original video nasty The Evil Dead was a gratuitous slice of bargain basement Grand Guignol that grossed out audiences with a relentless line in bodily dismemberment and malicious mayhem, all with tongue in bloody cheek. READ MORE: Watch: Bruce Campbell is Back in Bloody New ‘Ash vs.The transition from the silver screen to the silver stream can often be a treacherous one but Ash Vs Evil Dead goes for guts and g(l)ory and covers the screen with both.
“The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (‘Evil Dead,’ ‘Burn Notice’) in the role of Ash Williams, Lucy Lawless (‘Salem,’ ‘Spartacus’) as Ruby a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks, Ray Santiago (‘Touch,’ ‘Meet the Fockers’) as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash’s loyal sidekick, Dana DeLorenzo (‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’) as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past and Jill Marie Jones (‘Sleepy Hollow’) as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her partner.”įans gathering at Comic-Con Friday were the first to see the new spot, as well as learn the Halloween release date - a choice so perfect we should have been predicting it for months now (not only do the obvious horror connections apply, but Halloween falls on a Saturday this year and Starz loves airing its shows on Saturday nights).Ĭheck out the trailer above and two new official images below. The 10-episode season will kick off with its first half-hour entry October 31 at 9pm. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its ‘Evil’ grip.” When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons - personal and literal. The official synopsis reads as follows: “Campbell reprises his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead.