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Post by Ancient History » Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:34 pm

In the spirit of Re-Penetrator, and in honor of Tommy Pistol winning 'Best Actor' at the 2014 AVN Awards, let's take a look at Evil Head.
Cutting to the chase, Evil Head is a pornographic parody of Sam Raimi's brilliant Evil Dead, a legendary low-budget black horror-comedy noted for its use of practical special effects, gallons of corn syrup, slapstick acting (especially by a young Bruce Campbell), and excellent, rather daring writing. It has gone on to become it's own franchise, including Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, the Evil Dead remake, comic books, video games, etc.
Let's be clear, the original movie is the one where a bunch of horny teenagers head out to an isolated shack, and a girl gets lost in the woods and raped by a tree. So there's plenty of titillation material to work with without even stretching much.
Re-Penetrator was released in 2005, and was sort of the dry-run for the idea of gory, rather elaborate parody/sex vids, and while that was rather light on plot, it gathered many kudos and an AVN award when it was released, so I think that's what encourage Burning Angel to try again with this much more ambitious picture, which by at least one account took something like six years to produce.
The result is a bit jump-the-shark. It is, rather amazingly, a fairly faithful parody/remake that hits most of the key plot points and in about the right order. Some of the practical effects aren't great - Ash's 'lopped off' right paw for example - but a surprising amount of the makeup and faux gore and especially the sets and costumes are incredibly well done and faithful to the original material. So yes, everybody is an altporn star with tattoos and plugs in their ears and trying to talk the girls into double anal penetration and whatnot, and the Necronomicon Ex Mortis becomes the Necronomicum Ex Mortis (and covered in sticky demon spooge), but this was an honest (if sexually explicit and occasionally frankly dirty) love letter to the original Evil Dead. Yes, that includes an extended (and relatively tasteful) tree/vine rape scene.
Where the film jumps the shark of course is that it is 147 minutes long; by comparison the original movie was only 85 minutes. The extra hour comes from, unsurprisingly, the sex scenes which are extended out to long past the point when flakes of skin should be coming off (the extra two minutes are Scotty's dialogue, which frankly I could have done without). Given an actual script, I won't say that I'm surprised that Tommy Pistol as Ash and Joanna Angel as Linda can actually act, but it's moderately pleasant to see Tommy go from rather dorkish impersonation of Bruce Campbell to batshit insane and sawing his hand off off-camera while the gore sprays.
For my money, the best part of the DVD was the making of featurette, which was shot behind the scenes with writer/director Doug Sakmann and lets you see the set, the makeup artists at work, and gives you an idea of the process. The whole production is inarguably more ambitious to Re-Penetrator, and I'd argue more successful because of it. I hope it marks a trend and that the next time they do something even bigger and better, but We Shall See.
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Post by DSMatticus » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:10 pm

I have the weirdest feeling of deja vu right now.
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Post by Ancient History » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:18 pm

...it's been a long day, shut up.
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