Ash is back, baby! The trailer for the ten-part
horror/comedy series from Starz premiered at Comic-Con 2015 and it's whipped up
a bit of a fan frenzy – so let's dig into some of the highlights.
Boy Done Good:
So where's Ash gone since we last saw him? Not very far, it
seems – if anything he's gone in reverse – living in a trailer hitched to the
same car he's always had (just think of the time and money Ash must have
spent restoring it after the events of the third film!), and now he's not
even working at S-Mart. Now he has – so I presume – slid down the retail ladder
to 'Value Stop' where he's still a Stockboy, re-living past glories as
he tells his co-worker Pablo of his prior adventures: “I was the only one to
escape, but now the evil has found me.” At least he's got himself a new
prosthetic hand – a bit more fitting to 21st Century life than that
bulky steel contraption from the last movie … maybe whatever magic that made it
function wore off? “You won't see that hand, but that's all I'll say,” teased
Raimi in response to a fan question on the matter of Ash's substitute hand at
the Comic-Con Panel.
“Ash, even in his prime, would be the wrong guy to save the
world – now he's thirty years older and he has to save the world! I'm really
worried for the world,” said Campbell of Ash's advancing years. “Crabby old man
Ash.” Sam Raimi also noted some of Ash's continued (but loveable)
foibles: that the character is “a heel, a coward, and a blow hard” but is also
“a great monster hunter”. Still though, while he may be a bit down-at-heel (he's
even revealed to be wearing dentures at one point – but could this just be a
little joke only for the trailer?), Ash still knows how to wield a
stump-mounted chainsaw – a moment in the trailer that pushed all the right
buttons!
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