Hello internet, welcome to film theory, where today we're talking about Sam Ramey's demo reel.

I mean, uh, Doctor Strange 2 Multiverse of Madness.

On that note, by the way, if you walked out of theaters and your cinema snob friend was raving about how Sam Ramey the whole thing was,

here's your 30-second primer of what that meant.

Anytime the camera zoomed in and twisted towards a door or something, straight out of Evil Dead. Same with all the gruesome body horror, practical effect zombies and jump scares. Flying eyeball, Evil Dead 2.

Phrenetic close-ups with rapid cuts, Evil Dead and Dark Man. Scary hands popping out of the walls and ceiling? Drag me to hell. Giant octopus fights along the sides of New York buildings. Literally just Spider-Man 2. Even that infuriating shot of the pizza guy punching himself and then breaking the

fourth wall at the end, that is Bruce Campbell, one of his go-to actors in pretty

much every film that he does directly referencing a fight sequence that he had against

his own hand in Evil Dead 2.

I mean, there's referencing your own work, and then there's turning in the same assignment

twice. Anyway, well, I wound up being wrong in my prediction that Evil Strange here was missing a hand as a reference to again Evil Dead. I at least was right that at some point there'd be hand shenanigans as a direct reference back to Sam Ramey's past work, so half point? And hey, even though I was wrong about that, boy howdy, were we right about practically everything else in this thing.

Sure, we didn't predict the movie pulling a trigger on Chekhov's Dead Strange for the grand finale, but everything else?

Not too shabby.

We called the appearance of the Illuminati before Patrick Stewart's voice was in the trailer.

We knew that this would be a Doctor Strange redemption story directly calling back to Spider-Man No Way Home.

In the grand calculus of the multiverse, their sacrifice means infinitely more than their lives.

Heck, one of our writers knew that Wanda was going to be the villain back in 2019 before

Endgame released and before he started working with us.

What if what they're not saying yet is that Wanda isn't just the co-star in Doctor Strange 2, she's the villain?

Multiverse of Madness is kind of an awkward title, but it's also an acronym.

True story, that theory of his is actually the reason that he's on the team now.

Glad to have you with us, Bob. But okay, I didn't just make a whole episode to take a few victory laps.

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