Horror at the Hob

John Dies at the End

 

Let’s face it, books suck. I mean who wants to sit and read when you can just watch it all happen on screen. Nowadays you don’t even have to bother with comic books, all the best ones have been made into films and the rest aren’t worth bothering with. People have a go at Peter Jackson for how long the Lord of the Rings films are but have you ever tried reading them? That takes fucking ages! They even have some pictures and everything.

Evil Dead Vs. The Evil Dead

Fede Alvarez had some gigantic boots to fill when it was announced he was going to be directing the remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 classic horror, ‘The Evil Dead’. Striking the balance between staying true to the sometimes ludicrous ‘Evil Dead’ repertoire and keeping modern audiences happy was always going to be a struggle. I have to make it clear that I am a massive ‘Evil Dead’ fan. I first saw ‘Evil Dead 2’ back in 1999 when I was twelve years old on my first television in my bedroom on Channel 4 as part of a zombie double bill alongside ‘Zombie Flesh Eaters’ complete with introduction from Mark Kermode and I loved it. It was gory, funny, scary and just insane; I had never seen anything like it and was enamoured by the whole franchise to the point which I have read Bruce Campbell’s autobiography ‘If Chins Could Kill’ and seen all the films in all different incarnations with numerous commentaries.