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movie critic, here with the spoiler special of Evil Dead, the new remake of the Sam Ramey film starring Jane Levy.

Here with me in the Slate studio is Chris Wade. Hello, Chris.

Hey, Dana.

You are an audio and video producer for Slate.

That is true.

And you are also a Died and the Wool fan of the old Evil Dead movies? I am indeed. In fact, as an audio video producer, I can say that the reason I went to

film school was how inspired I was by Evil Dead 2, the mastery of Ramey's low-budget filmmaking,

and then Bruce Campbell's book, If Chins Could Kill, which is a great memoir of him coming up

in the B-movie circuit and trying to break into the A movie list and never quite making it.

Bruce Campbell, we should say, the star of the original three Evil Dead, the trilogy Evil Dead, Evil Dead, Two, and Army of Darkness.

Yes.

Yes.

And one of the producers of this movie.

Yes.

And that book is just really inspirational of how much you can get done with just a 16-millimeter camera and a lot of, I think, masterminded this whole operation, although he did not direct the movie, a Uruguayan named Fede Alvarez did, who's never made a feature film before.

But set up a little bit for us what Evil Dead is.

Evil Dead is a classic of Schlock Horror Cinema, starting out with Evil Dead One, which I believe they produced in around 1981 for minimal money, like $16,000.

That little, really? Yeah,000. That little?

Yeah, it's basically nothing.

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