@ The Movies: Halloween Flick Picks Oct 2, 2009
Raimi and Campbell went back to the woods in 1987 with "Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn," which threw Three Stooges-type comedy into the mix, and revisited the "Dead" one more time in 1992's "Army of Darkness" -- which playfully catapults Ash back to medieval times to fight a gaggle of wiseacre skeletons known as "Deadites.". 2. (KERO 23, CA)
Midnight Mass dismissed Jul 10, 2009
In between are "Heathers," "Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn," "Showgirls" (free lap dances, folks. "Pink Flamingos" and "Poltergeist.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The disaster that may have saved D-Day Jun 6, 2009
At least 749 U.S. sailors and soldiers would be dead by dawn. Code-named Exercise Tiger, the ill-fated D-Day dry run was at the time America's costliest incident of the war (only Pearl Harbor was worse). (MSNBC -- International)
Top 10 Horror Blu-rays May 12, 2009
Subtitled "Dead by Dawn," the second film in the trilogy is considered the perfect one, and a pioneer. Limited by the budget, scope and film stock of the original, this Blu-ray transfer does the most that it can do with the image. (IGN FilmForce)
My readers write: The worst ads on TV Apr 7, 2009
My favourite letter, in its succinct entirety, from Rolf Auer in Vancouver: "I hate the ad for Montana's with the two talking animal heads on a wall of a restaurant (a deer and a moose, I think). It makes me think of Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, wherein the buck's head mounted on the cabin wall laughs maniacally. I think the movie is more tasteful. ...". (). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
