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The 9 Greatest Deadites in Evil Dead History
If you’re anything like the minions here at iHorror, you’re missin’ “Ash vs Evil Dead” somethin’ fierce, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy a little stroll down memory lane.
While we all love Bruce Campbell and can’t wait for Pablo and Kelly to once again fill our Sunday evenings with glorious splatstick, we thought we’d switch things up a bit.
Instead of Ash one-liners, groovy kills and buckets of blood, why not offer some love to those without whom the Ghostbeaters would have to go back to stocking shelves and peddling second-rate electronics?
Though it required some very difficult cuts, here they are in all their soul-devouring glory — the finest Deadites in Evil Dead history.
9 — Lacey Emery (Pepi Sonuga, “Ash vs Evil Dead,” Season 2)
Her appearance was brief, but that doesn’t change the fact that Sonuga was given, hands down, the funniest line ever written for a Deadite.
8 — Mia (Jane Levy, Evil Dead, 2013)
Feast on this. Because Jane Levy.
7 — Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, 1987)
Yes, we’re talking Deadites, but can an Evil Dead list exist without The King? Exactly.
6 — Linda (Denise Bixler, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, 1987)
The Dance of the Give Me Some Sugar Plum Deadites. The very definition of creepy.
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5 — Sheila (Embeth Davidtz, Army of Darkness, 1992)
She may have gotten real ugly, but she was a sight for sore bones.
4 — Linda (Betsy Baker, The Evil Dead, 1981)
I’ll never forget my first glimpse of Baker sitting in the doorway with those eyes. That laugh. That chant. The first in a litany of Linda’s, Baker remains best.
3 — Detective Amanda Fisher (Jill Marie Jones, “Ash vs Evil Dead,” Season 1)
A character as badass as Amanda required a Deadite to match, and Detective Fisher did not disappoint. Though the universe is still alive and well, it will be a challenge to ever top her post-death introduction.
2 — Henrietta Knowby (Ted Raimi, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn / “Ash vs Evil Dead,” Season 2)
No introduction necessary.
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1 — Cheryl Williams (Ellen Sandweiss, The Evil Dead, 1981 / “Ash vs Evil Dead,” Season 2)
Ash’s sister. Chet’s lover. Cheryl was the original. She set the standard. Ms. Sandweiss is, was and ever shall be the queen of the Evil Dead universe.
As previously stated, comprising a list just nine deep required some difficult decisions, so if you take umbrage with an omission or the rankings, feel free to share in the comments section below.
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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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