Sam Raimi's cult favorite horror flick can be painful to watch (it's the chainsaws, mainly), but the movie's new stage musical is painfully funny instead. It's a riff on contemporary culture in which concerns about zombies are outpaced only by the fear of ripping preripped jeans.
From the moment the first zombie-stomping, blood-letting, shockingly funny musical number begins, it's frighteningly clear that Evil Dead: The Musical is nothing like its glittery Broadway siblings. Peppered with enough four-letter words to make a rapper blush and bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit, the original cast recording of Evil Dead: The Musical is a truly unique treasure, sure to appeal to many with its offbeat edginess.