The pacing's clunky, there are too many pauses, and most of the cast doesn't seem comfortable showing their hormones.Įven with their combined eight hands, the four composers can't write one song that sticks in our head. It’s all so clumsy that criticism can’t possibly do it harm - or good. Not even close to its progenitors – the naughty Rocky Horror Show or that delicious mother of all horror spoof musicals, Little Shop of Horrors – Evil Dead has requisite gore (self-amputation, chainsaw attacks, knives in the back, spurting rivers of blood) stupid characters who do stupid things, like leave the cabin in the middle of the night to explore strange noises a book of the dead that when spoken aloud summons forth demons horny college kids on spring break that sort of thing. Yet even Obsidian Theater, which has won our Houston Theater Award for Best Musical two years running, can't put much oomph into this anemic little show, try as it might. Maybe that's why it's become a cult hit, especially around Halloween. (Holy Ziegfeld, I can't believe I've actually mentioned Hamilton in the same sentence as Evil Dead.)Ī send-up of a send-up, this Grade B musical (2003), spawned from Sam Raimi’s wildly successful horror flick trio, is a campy composite, as cheesy and low-rent as they come. ![]() ![]() Hamilton, for one, because it's brilliant, and Evil Dead, because it's so.well, stupid. Photo by Pin Lim There are certain musicals that are immune to criticism.
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