something dead from inside the cabin. The dog catches whiff of it, too, and they're led to a secret basement filled with dead cats, strange artifacts, gore effects, tales from the set, and plenty more. This is a coherent, informative, and easy listen;

close to unwatchable. I'll give it a warm 3.75/5 overall, yet this is a tough one to grade objectively and, for the most part, those not interested in 4K dogged Chainsaw even through all of that film's pluses -- style, intensity, excess violence -- most of which Dead shares in common. perhaps a lesser known John Landis outing (his first big screen effort, in fact), there's a really fascinating analysis by the typically ebullient Kimconsidering how overwhelmingly dark much of the film may be, there's no shortage of amazing textures and contextually strong colors throughout. After principal photography ended, it took still another year to complete the entire project, which led to several reshoots with stand-ins, or what's now known as "Fake Shemps" thanks to Raimi's obsession with 'The Three Stooges.' It's actually quite amusing to catch the changes in body types and gestures as the film progresses, especially a slight age difference in Bruce Campbell towards the final moments. But it's to the credit of the editing process, which the Coen brothers assisted in, that Raimi's unique and imaginative visual style is turned into an organized and intelligible 85-minutes of brutal, blood-soaked lunacy. Look at the sequence when Ash contemplates dismembering his girlfriend with a chainsaw to see the collaborative efforts come together in terrific, fluid synchronicity.

regard to some of the lunatic makeup on various performers. The palette is really nicely suffused throughout this presentation, with even potentially front top, in small print and a bit hard to see, is the notice that the set includes UHDs, BDs, and digital copies. Printedcategories: "Featurettes," "Trailer & TV spots," and "Photo Gallery." "Featurettes" contains the bulk Sure, many of the classic moments are left intact -- the cellar hatch, the "vine rape" -- but some have been re-imagined, character fates are jump" scares, but the film banks more on excess visuals than any sort of dramatic, emotional, skin-crawling terror. It does largely leave the story

Book of the Dead's discovery to the absolute terror that arrives in its wake. A handful of creative sonic touches dot the landscape, fromImage clarity is impeccable, with natural sharpness defining each and every element. Whether wooden surfaces around the inside and outside of the might intrude, especially in some of the mist strewn sequences (both inside and outside, funnily enough), but actually scenes like the first interior