Evil Dead: The Musical. The Movie.
Get Out Your Boomsticks / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | September 10, 2008 | Comments (17)

20070122_085516.jpgNo one loves the Evil Dead movies more than I. Hell: I specifically designed criteria so that the Evil Dead trilogy would come out as the best of all time. But there’s a reason I never saw Evil Dead: The Musical. And that’s because 1) Bruce Campbell isn’t in the musical, and Bruce Campbell is the reason the Evil Dead movies are so great; and 2) who the fuck wants to see a Mamma Mia version of Evil Dead. Seriously.

Well, apparently someone does. After the success of the stage play, someone got it into his too tiny head that it’d be a swell goddamn idea to not only turn Evil Dead: The Musical into a big-screen feature, but to make it 3-D, so you can experience the agony the way it was meant to be. Three-dimensionally.

And how the hell are you going to include the audience participation element of the stage play where there is no audience in attendance?

And if you doubt the atrocity that is Evil Dead: The Musical, here’s a clip, replete with a muppet moose.

The Chin does not approve.


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Comments

Oh ICK! I don't need a perky fucking soundtrack for that story.
This is why I have such a thing against musicals (except Hedwig). I would just like to point this out and say that I have been justified all along.
Cabin in the Woods . . . what a pernicious ear worm.

Posted by: Sharon at September 10, 2008 11:00 AM

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Posted by: twig at September 10, 2008 11:02 AM

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Posted by: Skittimus Maximus at September 10, 2008 11:08 AM

That looks hilarious.

Posted by: ian at September 10, 2008 11:10 AM

um.
i have no comment. just a little vomit.

Posted by: jamiepants at September 10, 2008 11:16 AM

For a counterpoint:

The musical is excellent. Campy, over the top gore, and surprisingly good songs. Come on, you have to respect a show that warns audience members in the first few rows they will be covered by fake blood.

Will it work as a movie? Probably not. Like all promising stage adaptations, it will be hacked to pieces and sewn back together in incongrous ways, cast with actors who may not be able to sing without studio magic (the rest not able to sing with studio magic, naturally), and still shot like you can't show the fourth wall since that would be a mirror reflecting on the audience.

But a 3-D over the top horror movie musical? When's the camp out start for those tickets. I'd even consider showing up in costume for that one.

Posted by: Robert at September 10, 2008 11:24 AM

Surely you realize, Dustin, that this had to happen. I mean, it worked for Hairspray, right? So, what's the next logical step?

I was actually supposed to go see this (my mom was going to take me, under the condition that we didn't sit in the "splatter zone") but it closed before we made it. A friend of mine saw it, I seem to remember she thought it was okay, but I don't remember if she's ever seen any of the movies. I'll have to ask her about that.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2008 11:38 AM

I saw the musical while it was running in NYC, and it was fantastic. It was super-camp and cheesy, despite the lack of Bruce Campbell. The songs were hysterical, in a mocking-real-musicals sort of way. I'm kind of a whore for musicals, so that my have added to my appreciation, but I loved it. I'm not sure how that will translate into a movie, but as long as there's a soundtrack it will make it all worth it.

And yes, Anna, I've seen the movies. Have you forgotten who I've dated? Seriously.

Posted by: christine at September 10, 2008 12:00 PM

"Come on, you have to respect a show that warns audience members in the first few rows they will be covered by fake blood."

You shut your mouth and listen to me, Robert! The only shows I get warned I'm gonna get covered in blood better be a goddam GWAR show or the public execution of Gallagher... Respect, indeed...

Posted by: Skittimus Maximus at September 10, 2008 12:05 PM

Ha! I kind of figured you must have, and I'd forgotten. I was pretty sure you'd at least seen the last one. You know my brain is like a colander at this point.

I'm still sad I missed the stage show. *sigh*

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2008 12:06 PM

I was previously blissfully unaware of the existence of a musical version of The Evil Dead. I only got two seconds into that clip, before I felt my heart spasm in my chest and blood well up behind my eyeballs, fit for burstin'.

Posted by: Dill The Devil at September 10, 2008 12:56 PM

I was lucky enough to see The Evil Dead Musical before it closed in Toronto, and I can safely say, having been forced to see Mamma Mia, that it is nothing like that piece of ABBA-infested crap. How could it be with a song called "What the fuck was that?"? That, however, does not mean it should be made into a movie.

Posted by: Mary at September 10, 2008 1:45 PM

You shut your mouth and listen to me, Robert! The only shows I get warned I'm gonna get covered in blood better be a goddam GWAR show or the public execution of Gallagher... Respect, indeed...

I stand by respecting a horror musical with the courtesy to do that. I mean, I got hit in the eye with a piece of hard candy at The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and wound up watching the second half of the show with only one contact in. They should have warned about projectile candy. At least I knew that it might have been a smart decision not to wear my good clothes when I saw Evil Dead the first time.

Posted by: Robert at September 10, 2008 2:23 PM

Regarding the Evil Dead Musical...don't judge until you've seen the clip of "What The Fuck Was That?"

Posted by: Renee at September 10, 2008 5:36 PM

Evil Dead: The Musical: The Movie. I rest my case.

Posted by: Arthur Dent at September 10, 2008 6:06 PM

Evil Dead: The Musical is an incredibly well written show. Songs like Cabin in the Woods are written the way are to be poke fun at musicals that try to get merit out of that style. It's a wonderful parody of the "traditional musical" and it covers a plethora of music genres through the soundtrack.

It has full length songs such as "S-Mart Employee" which is a hysterical love ballad and a bunch of short songs like "Bit-part Demon" which poke fun at the actors in the show.

Overall its a wonderful show and you really should not knock it just because it has music in it and because you saw a bullshit youtube vid that looked like crap.

The movie might not be all that great but i will definitely give it a shot. It might be worth it.

Posted by: Daniel at October 14, 2008 3:24 AM

Anybody see CANIBAL,The Musical?

Posted by: AnnaMay at November 15, 2008 3:45 AM