Bruce Campbell landed a verbal smackdown on a spoilsport who went out of his way to ruin everyone else’s good time at theEvil Dead Risepremiere at SXSW.Evil Dead Risebowed at SXSW before hitting general release to build up word of mouth amongst a fanbase eager for more hijinks in the world of Deadites and chainsaws. First popularized in a gonzo 1981 gore flick that Stephen King called “The most ferociously original horror film of the year,” the firstEvil Deadlaunched the careers of all involved, includingwriter and director Sam Raimiand beloved Hollywood icon Campbell.Related:Evil Dead Rise Trailer Unleashes The Deadites On A Terrified FamilyHowever, not everyone was pleased withEvil Dead Rise, the newest and most recent entry in the franchise since 2013’sFede Alvarez’sEvil Deadfilm. After falling asleep with his legs propped up, a person was approached by SXSW venue staff and yelled something unintelligible. The person shouted that the movie “f**ing sucked!” as he was led from the theater. Campbell responded, “What are you doing here? Get the fck out of here,” to massive cheers.
Long-timeEvil Deadseries producer Robert Tapert (a Raimi collaborator from way back who met his wife Lucy Lawless on the pair’sHercules:The Legendary Journeysspinoff,Xena: Warrior Princess) was present during the event. He didn’t understand the encounter since the heckler sat through the film before really laying into it. It’s almost difficult to call the person involved a fan since fandom implies liking a thing when this is so clearly a case of the opposite: a spoilsport trying to ruin everyone else’s good time until series star andEvil Dead Riseproducer Campbell had enough of his antics.
Evil Dead Riseis exactly what the title promises: Set in an apartment in a Los Angeles high-rise, two sisters, Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) and Beth (Lily Sullivan), go toe-to-toe after one sister gets possessed by the series’ Necronomicon Ex Mortis, a gateway for all sorts of Kandarian demons to take over a person’s home and body, reanimating them as a vicious Deadite. To deal with the threat, nothing less than total bodily dismemberment is needed, often leading to inventive and gory methods of execution of the series’ monsters.Based on everything shown so far,Evil Dead Riseis keeping up the long-running gore and wickedly dark comedy the franchise is famous for.
