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Ash vs. Evil Dead (2015 – 2018) – Horror TV Shows We Miss

By Cody Hamman

Posted 4 years ago

For over twenty years after the release of Army of Darkness, the third entry in the Evil Dead franchise, it looked like Bruce Campbell might never play the character of Ash Williams again. There were rumors that franchise creator Sam Raimi wanted to make an Evil Dead 4, but it never seemed to go anywhere. Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash ended up being turned into a comic book instead of a movie. Raimi and Campbell produced an Evil Dead reboot that was directed by Fede Alvarez and didn’t have Campbell in the cast. Campbell did voice Ash for a few video games. Was that all we would ever get? But then, Raimi gave us something even better than an Evil Dead 4, bringing Campbell back as Ash in a blood-soaked television series called Ash vs. Evil Dead. The show ran for three glorious seasons before being cut short with cancellation – and that’s why it’s the focus of the latest episode of our video series Horror TV Shows We Miss. Check it out in the embed above!

Ash vs. Evil Dead had the following synopsis:

Ash, the aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter, has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons – personal and literal.
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Campbell was joined in the cast by Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Lucy Lawless, Jill Marie Jones, Arielle Carver-O’Neill, Ted Raimi, and Lee Majors.

The Horror TV Shows We Miss series is all about taking a

nostalgic look back at the genre series that marked us while growing up and that helped shape our love of horror today.

This episode was Written and Narrated by Niki Minter, Edited by Adam Walton, Produced by John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

A couple previous episodes of Horror TV Shows We Miss can be seen below. If you’d like to see more, and check out the other shows we have to offer, head over to the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there!

Source: Arrow in the Head

Tags: aith, Arrow in the head, Ash vs Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell, Horror TV Shows We Miss, Sam Raimi

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Cody Hamman

Horror News Editor

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Favorite Movies: The Friday the 13th franchise, Kevin Smith movies, the films of read more George A. Romero (especially the initial Dead trilogy), Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, FleshEater, Intruder, Let the Right One In, Return of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead, Jaws, Tremors, From Dusk Till Dawn, Phantasm, Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, Back to the Future trilogy, Dazed and Confused, the James Bond series, Mission: Impossible, the MCU, the list goes on and on

Likes: Movies, horror, '80s slashers, podcasts, animals, traveling, Brazil (the country), the read more Cinema Wasteland convention, classic rock, Led Zeppelin, Kevin Smith, George A. Romero, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Richard Linklater, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, James Bond, Tom Cruise, Marvel comics, the grindhouse/drive-in era

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