Ash vs Evil Dead – The Complete First Season
Blu-ray | DVD
Directors: Sam Raimi, Michael J. Bassett, David Frazee, John Scott, Ivan Raimi, Rick Jacobson, Tony Tilse
Writers: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Tom Spezialy, Dominic Dierkes, Sean Clements, James Eagan, Zoe Green, Michael Hurst, Craig DiGregorio, Rob Wright
Starring Bruce Campbell, Dana DeLorenzo, Ray Santiago, Lucy Lawless, Jill Marie Jones, Kelson Henderson, Ben Fransham, Peter Feeney
Created by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Tom Spezialy
Starz | Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release Date: August 23rd, 2016

More than 30 years after Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, and Rob Tapert created The Evil Dead, the trio came back to work on Ash vs Evil Dead for the Starz network. The series debuted late last year after premiering at New York Comic-Con. Fresh off their appearance at SDCC, and with a little more than a month till its season 2 premiere, the first season is being released on Blu-ray this week. Season 1 saw Ash Williams (Campbell) accidentally conjure the Evil Dead again after reading from the Necronomicon while getting high with a young fluzy. Soon demons and deadites are everywhere and Ash is left to grab his boomstick and rev up the ole chainsaw hand. Joining him in his quest to vanquish evil are his former co-workers and sidekicks Pablo (Ray Santiago), and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo). Together the trio was forced to deal with the evils of the book as well as a rogue FBI agent (Jill Marie Jones) and a strange woman with connections to Ash’s past (Lucy Lawless).

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Ash vs Evil Dead
Episode 1.8 “Ashes to Ashes”
Directed by Tony Tilse
Written by Michael J. Bassett, Nate Crocker, Zoe Green, James E. Eagan
Starring Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Jill Marie Jones, Lucy Lawless, Samara Weaving, Indiana Evans, Ido Drent, Rebekkah Farrell
Starz
Air date: Saturday, December 19, 2015, 9pm

It’s time to go back to the beginning”¦ the cabin in the woods. At the end of last week’s episode, Ash (Bruce Campbell) snuck away from the gang to do it alone. After all, everyone he ever cared about ended up dead, so he doesn’t trust that his new friends will make it. Amanda Fisher (Jill Marie Jones) is now a full on part of the group and is actually receptive to Ash’s advances. Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) and Pablo (Ray Santiago) are now heavily armed after beating up some militia goofs, and killing some militia deadites. At the Brujo’s compound, Ash went on a drug-fueled trip and was told to bury the book deep under where it all started”¦ “Honey, I’m home.”

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Ash vs Evil Dead
Season 1 Episode 2: “Bait”
Directed by Michael J. Bassett
Written by Dominic Dierkes
Created by Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi, Tom Spezialy
Starring Bruce Campbell, Jill Marie Jones, Lucy Lawless, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo
Starz
Air Date: Saturday, November 7th, 2015, 9pm

The highlight of my four days at this year’s NYCC was Saturday afternoon at Hammerstein Ballroom, where we were treated to a special presentation of the pilot of Ash vs Evil Dead. The crowd of thousands showered their approval the way deadites shower Ash with blood. The original Evil Dead crew – Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Bob Tapert came together with the Starz network, and maybe the most gruesomely fun show on TV was born. If you missed the premiere, which debuted on Starz on Halloween, Ash got high and accidentally read from the Necronomicon, thereby re-releasing the Evil Dead. Along with co-workers Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo), Ash must once again fight the deadites, and try to use the Book of the Dead to defeat them once and for all.

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One of the more under the radar movies to show up in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con had to be Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. It’s not that the first movie was horrible, but I don’t think anyone expected to see a sequel made. The Silent Hill panel gave attendees a chance to find out if they should get excited for the new movie not.

The panel started off with two clips from the film. One featured the films heroine, Heather (Adelaide Clemens), facing off against a mannequin monster. The other clip featured Heather attempting to rescue Vincent (Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington) for a group of featureless nurses. The clips captured the feel of the video games, and were at least a little creepy. Unfortunately, the clips were shown without any context, and fell a little flat on the crowd. The 3D in the film looked okay, and the films writer/director Michael J. Bassett said that the film was shot entirely in 3D.

A pair of new actors have joined the cast of Silent Hill: Revelation, the sequel to 2006’s video game adaptation, Silent Hill.

Malcolm McDowell and Carrie-Anne Moss have been added to the production, and they will be playing Leonard and Claudia Wolf. McDowell is best known for his work on the Stanley Kubrick classic A Clockwork Orange, as well as movies like Halloween (2007), Halloween II (2009), and Bolt. Moss is of course best known as Trinity in The Matrix trilogy, and has also appeared in movies like Memento, Fido, and Disturbia.

A new image for the movie has also been released, which you can see above. Continue reading for more and to read a brief synopsis of the sequel.