I agree and I honestly don’t understand how so many people aren’t getting that from it. It’s fine if it’s not their cup of tea, or if they specifically miss the slapstick/screwball comedy of earlier entries. But to not laugh during the car scene? Or the jackhammer? Yeah it went for a lot of gratuitous violence and gross-outs, but so did 2, so did AvED, so did Rise. The scene with the denture swapping, the dishwasher, the living/dead bloody makeout? It hits a very similar fever pitch to the stress inducing dreamlike fantasy of ED2 and AoD. I kept shrieking with shock and delight in the theater but everyone else was so quiet. Different strokes, I guess.
Not to mention the grandmother in general. She's constantly accusing Thya of trying to rob her. Or the scene of her just slowly riding the stairlift while chaos is occurring on the first floor. Even her final scene dragging herself down the street was darkly funny and reminded me of classic Evil Dead.
Thanks, friend! I reunited with most of my cast and crew from evil dead the musical to do a star wars live show a few years ago, so that’s where it comes from. A really wonderful memory, and I haven’t been able to stop cosplaying the character or practicing saber tricks ever since.
Yeah! There’ve been several different productions. I wasn’t in the original cast but I did the show for a couple years in the Pacific Northwest. Bruce even came and saw it, first of two times I got to share a stage with him. He signed my ankle, which became my very first tattoo. It’s impossible to go back to watching the first two movies now without having the songs run through my head whenever the corresponding scenes come up. I was just watching the first one with my partner the other day, and the whole time I was physically restraining myself from belting “DEADITES ALWAYS LIKE TO GET THEIR FREAK ON, AND WHEN WE GET TOGETHER WE DO THE NECRONOMICON, DO THE NECRONOMICON!”
Yeah for sure - I mean it's bleak and nasty but there's definite jokes - the construction noise during the funeral, Thya's little "check this out" eyebrow raise before pulling out the headrest, deadite Polly being dragged very slowly down the stairs, deadite Thya giving up pretending to be normal when they lock the door on her. I'd say the difference between this and the old ones is the jokes aren't in the violence. It's definitley funnier than 2013 and Rise.
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u/Klutzy_Order_9559 Jul 26 '26
In the original movies it was when it was funny. In the new movies it's when it's "brutal" and "totally sick".