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NECA To Release Ashy Slashy Puppet In 2017
Written by Patti Pauley
It’s only been a few days since the second season finale of Ash vs. Evil Dead, and we’re already having massive withdrawals. Last year, the widely successful return of the grooviest chins on the planet paired with a chainsaw, proved that Ash Williams not only belongs on the big screen, but can tell an engaging and hilarious story week after week on the boob-tube as well. The second season brought (and took away) a colorful array of characters such as the introduction to Ash’s disapproving father, that son-of-a-bitch demon Baal, and the adorably lovable, wise-cracking Ashy Slashy puppet.
Ashy Slashy first made his comical debut in the S2E7 of “Delusion” where Ash (Bruce Campbell) is in a mind trap with Baal disguised as a doctor in a mental institution. Baal is hammering the notion into his noggin’ that the past three decades of Ash’s life have been nothing but a delusion. Then up pops Ashy Slashy. A puppet given to Ash by the demon to work out his ‘issues’, and as it turns out, this damn fine muppet from hell is just as, if even more vulgar than his human counterpart. And here I thought Ash couldn’t get any cooler. But there he is, in glorious foul-mouthed muppet form. Apparently, famed toy company NECA thinks he’s pretty damn kick-ass too. Because they’ve announced they’re making a replica Ashy Slashy puppet available for purchase in 2017!
Tonight the season finale of @AshvsEvilDead I’ll be watching w this vulgar little bastard. He can be yours in 2017!!! #ashyslashy pic.twitter.com/2w75QanAud
— NECA (@NECA_TOYS) December 11, 2016
Collector toy and figurine company NECA are notorious for paying fabulous attention to detail into anything they produce, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this “stunningly handsome puppet” rang off a few vulgarities to make it legit. Or at the very least, I’m throwing that out there in the case they read this, “cough cough.” Also worth mentioning, if the puppet is popular enough for NECA to take notice, I really doubt we’ve seen the last of Ashy Slashy at all as far as the show. At least I hope not anyway as our frontal lobe’s could benefit highly from future Ashy Slashy shenanigans. Official release date coming soon as the company releases more info.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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