Member Name: frankie smales
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Yorkshire Evening Post |
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13/01/07 (44 review reads) |
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Thatcher Vs the evil dead 1980’s movie
Expose
By
Frankie Smales
In the 80’s prime minister Margret Thatcher started
An campaigne to ban violent horror movies from being released
And shelved on video one of them was Sam rami’s cult movie classic
The evil dead because it contains an level of brutal violence including
The tree rape scene where an woman got attacked by an demonic tree
And due to the big Sucess at the big screen along came the video release and thatcher did not want it to be released on video and labled
The evil dead as an video nasty and according to the various tabloids
Stated that the evil dead was one of the most vile movies ever and
Also wanted it band along with horror movies like i’ll spit on your grave and the cannibalistic movie cannibal ferox but later in an interview with Johnathon ross the writter and director of evil dead Sam rami came clean and apoligise for any offence the movie it caused for the tree rape scene in evil dead and rami said that he regretted for that scene that was included and he even testified in court that the evil dead movie was not intended to offend viewers and the movie was
Realy intend to shock people and make them laugh before the movie was exposed as an movie shocker nasty the novelist creator for blockbusting novels like the stand and Carrie Stephen king gaved
The evil dead an approval to Sam rami and the director of the movie continued to protest to get the movie uncut and for general video released and the company palace video who released video hits like high spirits got the rights from the producers of evil dead to get it
Released on both Beta max and later on Vhs format the board of censors
Failed the evil dead movie the first time and labled it an video nasty but it did
Not Stop Sam rami for getting the movie released on video and shelved
At video and record stores in the united kingdom but later the Brittish board of certification finaly give the evil dead the green light and got
It released by palace home video and got it distributed accross the uk
In video an d record stores and the evil dead video succession was sky high and it led Sam rami along with the movies producers Bruce Campbell and Robert tappert to make the next installment of the
Evil dead franchise and from then on it got an huge fan based world
Wide over but the legacy of banning horror movies were far from
Over and the battle continues and the evil dead will always remain
One of the Most Great 1980’s horror movies ever made even after
Margret Thatcher is gone and the movie sky Rocket the Careers of
The director Sam rami who later did the evil dead sequels and
Bruce Campbell who later did maniac cop and Xena and the fan base
Will Continue to Explode.
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- 15/01/07 as rachel said, this is the YEP category. |
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- 13/01/07 The review is in the wrong place. This is for Yorkshire Post ! |
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- 13/01/07 An interesting op which would have been just that little bit better if you'd seperated your paragraphs and used full stops! :o)
Evil Dead is a classic of the genre. It's good to see that things are relaxed enough to ave allowed the full, uncut version to be released on DVD. The "tree rape scene" can't be taken to seriously in a film such as Evil Dead. It's not that I take that topic lightly but it's a tree!
Personal ly, I prefer Evil Dead II as it introduced some bile back humour and allowed Bruce Campbell to shine and stand out much more as the tormented Ash! Army Of Darkness - The Medieval Dead (AKA Evil Dead III) is brilliant too as it furthers Ash's coolness and confirms that Bruce Campbell is indeed God!
If you're a fan of Bruce Campbell (and it sounds to me like you are) you should check out the two books he's written. "If chins could kill (Confessions of a B movie actor)" is an autobiography about his childhood and his experiences of making B movies. It shows him to be a really cool guy who doesn't have an ounce of pretentiousness in him.
His second book is called "Make love the Bruce Campbell way" and is a fictionalised story of him landing his first A Movie role - opposite Richard Gere and Renee Zellweger! Superb stuff!
Take care!
Derek. |
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