My cup runneth over.
Is that an Oldsmobile to pootle around in?
It was fun, and it looked like Evil Dead - so many Ashes!
But it didn’t always feel like Evil Dead.
The same is true for what I think is the single-player stuff.
I headed out as Ash and quickly got into serious deadite trouble.
The woods looked perfect - but it felt like a lot of other horror games.
At this point I had a spiel prepared.
Deep down, it’s the Three Stooges.
It’s a Warner Bros cartoon.
And it’s both sophisticated in its staging and wonderfully handicraft in the practicality of its effects.
A puppet headless body with a chainsaw!
An eyeball on fishing wire while the film runs backwards!
Already it’s a billion times more Evil Deady.
Deep in the woods, I’m a disembodied malignant camera zooming over the ground.
This is where the game shines, I think.
And it’s given me a fresh insight into what I love about these movies.
When I think about the Evil Dead, sure I think about Ash and chainsaws and cabins.
Gimme some sugar, baby.
