Really awesome article from VICE! excerpt below, "For the last 36 years, former S-Mart employee Ash Williams has been drawing the short end of the stick. For all his pain, The Evil Dead has come out as one of the best—if not the best—horror franchise around. After the original The Evil Dead (1981), there was Evil Dead II (1987), then Army of Darkness (1992), and the TV series Ash vs. Evil Dead, which premiered in 2015, a full 23 years after the last installment of the franchise. Over the course of three movies and two (soon to be three) seasons, The Evil Dead has gone from horror to a parody of the genre, and the direction the show has taken suggests that it's about to come back full circle. It's a singular kind of growth, and also speaks to something deeper underneath all that blood and gore. The first movie, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash, followed five friends as they fell prey to demons in a cabin in the woods, and it's still one of the most iconic horror films ever made. (It famously counted Stephen King as an advocate.) That's why it's all the more impressive that Evil Dead II outstrips the original in reputation—especially as it essentially presented an alternate version of the events of the first film, but with the insanity dialed up to 11." Read the rest of the article on VICE - I've attached it to this update!