Susan Year Itch

I don’t mean to brag about my Evil Dead homework but…

How awesome is this paper topic*?

Axe, shotgun, chainsaw...ladies, beware.

By the release of the third film, Army of Darkness, the horrific nature of the original Evil Dead is almost completely nonexistent, as Ash regains his phallus (the chainsaw) and battles the evil version of himself, a male monster, easily overcoming the female monster. Removing the threat of the monstrous-feminine and, subsequently, male castration from the Evil Dead equation changes the entire tone of the trilogy as it progresses, and with the absence of that emasculating fear, the films easily shift into comedy.

I'd say more but that officially goes into the realm of "paper-writing" instead of "blogging" and it's a psychological block that I find very sturdy. I'll just let you sit there and rethink what the gaping hole at the end of ED2 might just represent.

*I lifted it from Barbara Creed.