{"id":91,"date":"2023-01-17T06:29:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/?p=91"},"modified":"2023-01-17T06:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T06:29:10","slug":"if-chins-could-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/17\/if-chins-could-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"If Chins Could Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After my startling revelation about Evil Dead 2<\/em> and my childhood penchant for thievery, I figured it would be just as well if I shared how I felt about Bruce Campbell’s book, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor<\/em>. I gave the book four stars on Goodreads, and this is what I said: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I enjoyed this very much. I’m a fan of the\u00a0Evil Dead<\/em>\u00a0franchise, as well as the various and sundry things Bruce Campbell has been a part of. It has an easy, readable narrative and the stories therein are great windows into the world of movie making from the Indies on up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t have too much more to say about it. It wasn’t a quick read, but it was worth the time.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing I saw of his was Army of Darkness<\/em>, which really blew my mind open. I’d seen zombie stuff before that, and I’d seen kind of Lovecraft-adjacent stuff as well, but Army of Darkness<\/em>? Man, that thing was everything. And Ash, too, if I’m being honest. I was right at the age where I had finally decided (rightly so) that Han Solo was cooler than Luke Skywalker, and Ash with all his bravado and 85% ability to back it up was both hilarious and inspiring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following that, I’ve seen Evil Dead<\/em> and Evil Dead 2<\/em>, but they haven’t touched me like the first one did. The 2013 reboot that I’ve finally seen was thoroughly enjoyable, even if there was no Ash or even an Ash-like character. I had heard rumors they were going to attempt a crossing-over of the two sides of the franchise, but I understand that’s a dream, now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only way I could see it is if the ending of the Ash vs Evil Dead<\/em> AMC television show led to an Army of Darkness 2<\/em> somehow, but that would be completely unexpected. I’m looking forward to Evil Dead Rise<\/em>, too, even though it doesn’t look like it has any connection to 2013’s Evil Dead<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, I’m glad for what we’ve got, no matter what may come next. If there was any possibility of writing something set in that universe, I’d jump at it. I might do some of that right now, just for me, damn it. -TB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my startling revelation about Evil Dead 2 and my childhood penchant for thievery, I figured it would be just as well if I shared how I felt about Bruce Campbell’s book, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor. I gave the book four stars on Goodreads, and this is what I said: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.worldoftrouble.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}