Too Scary; Didn't Watch - Bonus Episode: EVIL DEAD 2

Episode Date: June 24, 2022

Sammy forced Emily and Henley to watch Evil Dead 2 and... they liked it!! Grab your chainsaws and join us on this wild, confusing ride. Groovy! Full episode is available on our Patreon Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fm Podcast artwork by @EllaTalkinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, Horror Movie Recap Podcast Bonus Episode 4 June 4, the birth of our queen And no, I'm not talking about Toni Collette, I'm talking about Sam Smart The true queen, the first queen The true queen A necessary clarification, we do have two queens

We can have as many queens as we want to excuse you for limiting our royalty um wow here we are here we are oh my god you guys we're recording at a different time than usual and i gotta say hard to tell i'm being exactly the same there's a bit of a different vibe. It's an evening recording. Henley and I are drinking some alcoholic beverages, if you can believe it. Yes, you guys. I need to warn everyone. I haven't had dinner and I have had two drinks.

So it's that evening energy, baby. We'll see what happens. It's going to be hereditary all over again. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. And that just makes me want to add that, like, I'm only not because I had too much this weekend. And so it's not that I'm, like, not fun in case any.

Not that people who don't drink aren't fun. They are. But I just want people to know that it's like, I wish I was. You know what I mean? It's important to take some time off every now and then. I'm taking some time. I'm taking some time off right now. I'm taking time off tonight is time off for me. That's very good for your body. Also, when you have been hung over recently, the last thing you want to do is drink. Yeah, truly. Truly. It doesn't even know. It does sound good to me, but it doesn't.

But I but I couldn't bring it to my lips. You know what I mean? Like the thought is good, but I know if I went to do it, I'd be like, no, no, no. But sometimes it takes even less than like 12 hours. Like you wake up hungover and then by 6 p.m. be like, I guess a drink could be good. I don't think that's good. Wait, you know what? You know what that reminds me of, Tammy? Anytime I've been hungover, you've been like have a michelada. And I do not want to have a michelada when I'm hung over

but I saw on Instagram they fucking targeted me with a michelada t-shirt and they meant it for me spoiler alert I'm definitely gonna buy it for you next year for your birthday I can't wait I can't wait

a full calendar year for your michelada t-shirt. Start off with planning. It's actually really cute. I bet. Honestly, though, as soon as you said that, I was like, a Michelada, though. Oh, my God.

Emily, do you want to pause? Do you want to go make yourself a Michelada? I don't. I don't. The combo of beer and tomato juice would just absolutely be terrible. Yeah, that's terrible for someone that's been struggling with some heartburn. It can't really get much worse than a Michelada, I guess, or a Bloody Mary. Either way, anything spicy and alcohol.

Tomato juice. Yeah. Rhyme. Those are all the things I love. Oh, yeah. Everything you said just made my mouth water. Everything you said just made my mouth water. But sort of a fun episode in that we all watched the movie because it's Sammy's birthday episode.

And she said, here's what I want you guys to do. And you cannot say no to a birthday girl. This is the one where we all know to be true. So we all three of us independently watched this movie. I lulled. I was laughing out loud. I'm very excited to hear. Okay.

Yeah. This week's bonus episode movie is Evil Dead 2. Directed by Sam Raimi. Written by Sam Rabian. Scott Spiegel. Starring Bruce Campbell, Sarah by Sam Rabian, Scott Spiegel, starring Bruce Campbell, Sarah Barry, Dan Hicks, Cassie Wesley, and Richard Daumier. And yeah, tell me your

guys' initial thoughts. It was all I could think about while I was watching. It was like, what are Emily and Henley thinking about? At every scene, every moment, I was just thinking about you guys. Okay, at first, i was initially extremely confused because i didn't understand what the concept of the movie was which later i after doing a little digging

i was able to grasp i paused it and looked it up because i was certain i was i had somehow accidentally started evil dead which i haven't heard about in a while But it was one of our first episodes, but I was like This, wait, what? He's not He already was, he, what? Yeah, he already did all this. I had the same reactions I, okay, for the record, I've never seen Evil Dead 2, so I also, like, had No idea, and, yeah, had the exact

Same experience, where I was like, wait, what the fuck? Are they Just pretending Evil Dead 1 didn't happen? Yeah, I was like, is the, is our, is Ash just, like, an idiot, happen? Yeah, I was like, is Ash just like an idiot or what? No, it is. So it's like a remake slash sequel slash reimagining. A requel, a requel. A requel, the original requel.

So I read that they weren't able to get the rights somehow for the original film. And so they just like redid it in order to explain why ash is there but also changed it enough for it to feel very confusing like they cut most of the characters ash and linda yep well it's just weird because it's like just start the movie where evil dead ends like you don't need to remind us, like, why they're in the cabin. Yeah, I think it's basically like Sam Raimi wanted to make Army of Darkness, Evil Dead 3. And Evil Dead 1 did not end in a way that made that possible. And so this movie is a bridge between the two that is just incredibly confusing

but also if you let all of that go very fun i think if maybe we hadn't if we hadn't talked about evil dead we would have probably all been fine you know like i think you can start here and it's probably less confusing yes i think that almost made it more interesting to me though because i was just like what is happening why are they making this choice and that kind of made it more engaging in a way um and then honestly i mean we'll get into the recap but it just made me laugh like it was so funny silly it's wild so many places silly and that was something that Stephen, our guest who did Evil Dead One and one of our first episodes talked about. And, you know, I didn't believe him, of course. But now that I have spent three years listening to horror movies, I am in a place where I was able to appreciate how absurd it was and yeah completely get it i i mean i don't necessarily get it completely but i was laughing and that was a big step for me okay good that makes me very happy this is a big one a big one in terms like we've had movies described us before where our people doing the recaps you

included sammy have said like it's worse to hear this than to see it sometimes that's not true there are some things for that. There are some things that I absolutely don't ever want to lay eyes on. For me, at least, I'm certain that watching Hereditary would be worse than hearing about it, even though hearing about it was pretty bad. But this...

I remember that being said about Evil Dead 1. It's not actually... You could watch this and not believe it because it sounded horrifying because you describe things like decapitating somebody with an axe. That sounds awful. And I can picture it in my head as very awful. But then the way they do it in this movie is actually so incredibly light.

Yeah. So it was interesting to see. Good. Okay. I'm glad because I, you know, it is basically wall-to-wall gore in a way but it is just done in such it's the tone is comedic i would say like there are jokes throughout and it just you know made in the 80s has it's can't it's not hyper realistic that's the thing too is that like i i feel like there's and they i know there's been

remakes like more modern remakes of evil dead or there's a show or something or both yeah there's a uh yeah both i think the the remake is with jane levy directed by freddie alvarez who did oh don't breathe which we which we just did um well i because i feel like there's a universe where there is a version of this movie that Even though it is still silly and campy I would not want to see because I think This one you know I the chains I hate I hate a chainsaw you guys know I hate a chainsaw

They never show The chainsaw actually entering A body in a way that Is like upsetting to see And I could imagine A remake having a lot of fun with showing that kind of stuff and so that was also a big relief for me is like all the moments where i was like oh no i can't watch this they didn't make me they would cut away to shadow or like

only show the other side of it or yeah yeah do something that would make it manageable for me. Yeah. And we'll get to this, but one of the trivia is that the producers insisted upon using different colors of blood to avoid an X rating. I had a feeling that was, yeah, avoiding a rating situation. So that's part of it, I think, is that there's one point where it's all green blood. Yeah, one's blue, one's...

Even the red blood looks fake it looks like it's like really bright red yeah okay so it has a 95 on rotten tomatoes this is like widely regarded as one of the best sequels of all time this movie is basically the godfather 2 just saying wow i dare you to find a list that doesn't include evil dead 2 on best sequels of all time. It's in there. 72% on Metacritic, 7.7 on IMDb. And I ate

a weed gummy before I watched it, which was my first time dabbling back. Who are you? This is sort of a real party episode. My first time eating an edible since accidentally eating 25 milligrams. That was too many. That was too many milligrams.

That was really too many. This time I went 2.5, a tenth. A tenth. And I actually really didn't even feel it. Yeah, 2.5 is light, baby, light. You know, I just didn't want to make the same mistake twice. God, if you had made the same mistake again i thought it had 25 milligrams okay don't don't do 25 don't do 25 whatever you do don't do 25 how did that even happen again you misread the packaging yeah so the packaging had

nutritional information that was based on serving size that I thought I think I thought was based like on the whole cookie and it was like serving size 50 milligrams and I thought that meant the whole cookie is 50 milligrams but I didn't see that the serving size is like a quarter cookie and so I was like I don't want to eat it was something like that where I was like I don't eat to eat. It was something like that where I was like, I don't eat the whole thing. So I halved. You were trying to do less. I was trying to. And you ended up doing way more. A lot more. Yeah.

Terrifying. But it's like that's on them because a cookie is a one serving situation. Right. But I guess with weed, it's maybe they just have different ways of. They just make mini cookies. They make smaller cookies. Just make smaller cookies. I bet on the front of that packaging it said like 100 milligrams

or however many milligrams the cookie was. It probably said on the front. Yeah, it probably did. But you're just being too smart for your own goddamn good. You're trying to do math. I was like doing math on the back. How do I protect myself? Yeah, it backfired.

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