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[Next On] “Ash vs Evil Dead”: Ash Heads to the ‘Evil Dead’ Cabin!
“Honey, I’m home.”
After several weeks of building, Starz and Sam Raimi’s “Ash vs Evil Dead” is (thankfully) heading into fan-service territory.
This past Saturday, Ash (Bruce Campbell), Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo), now joined by Fisher (Jill Maria Jones), arrived at the survivalist camp in the midst of chaos and must go to extreme measures to escape. While the episode was incredibly bloody, it felt like filler bridging viewers to Ash’s return to infamous cabin that tormented him in The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, and presumably Mia (Jane Levy) in the 2013 Evil Dead.
The below trailer for Episode 108, ‘Ashes to Ashes,’ teases the epic return to the cabin.
In the actual “Ash vs Evil Dead” episode, Ash attempts to bury the book to end the Evil, but first he must contend with other, more physical things from his past. Fisher also faces a horrific change in Ash.
I’ve seen the final three episodes and can assure you that they all take place in the cabin, and that all sorts of crazy shit happens. While I won’t go as far as to say there’s classic stuff here, I will say that it’s better than the previous handful of episodes and delivers a lot of what fans are hoping for.
Now, “Ash vs Evil Dead” is heading back to where it all started, and where it’s going to end….
Best known to horror fans for playing Rupert Giles in 121 episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” actor Anthony Head (aka Anthony Stewart Head) has passed away at 72 years old.
Daughters Emily and Daisy Head said in a statement to the BBC that their father “passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family.”
Their statement continues, “It has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many. We know how dearly he will be missed by friends, colleagues, and fans of the shows he was in — he loved his job very much, and he always considered himself incredibly lucky, to have been able to work alongside such exceptionally talented people, in such wonderful productions, across a career that spanned several decades.”
Anthony Head more recently played Rupert Mannion in 18 episodes of “Ted Lasso,” with the English actor’s film and television credits dating back to 1978. On the horror front, Anthony Head starred in Darren Bousman’s Repo! The Genetic Opera, as well as 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Let the Wrong One In, “Warehouse 13,” and “The Canterville Ghost.”
Also of note here in the world of horror, Anthony Head once played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a London stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show back in the 1990s.
Outside the horror world, Anthony Head’s film and television credits well exceed 100 different productions and include “Highlander,” “NYPD Blue,” “Silent Witness,” “Doctor Who,” And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, “Little Britain,” The Magic Door, “Sensitive Skin,” Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, “Free Agents,” The Iron Lady, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, “You, Me & Them,” “Dominion,” A Street Cat Named Bob, and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight.
“Buffy” actor James Marsters writes on Instagram, “There’s a hole in the World. Anthony Head has passed on from us. He was an unflaggingly kind and steady presence on the set of Buffy, and the best actor in the cast. He was the best of us. I was lucky to have known, and learned from him. He left the world a better place for his presence. Thank you Tony for all you gave.”
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