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thedeaditeslayer · 5 years ago

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NEWS ‘Evil Dead II’ and ‘Intruder’ Star Danny Hicks Has Been Diagnosed With Cancer and He Needs Our Help.

Danny Hicks has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and he needs our help. Danny is one of the most kind and generous members of the Evil Dead francise and deserves nothing but the best. Please read below to learn on how to donate on Go Fund Me or support by purchasing a signed photo.

Horror fans were first introduced to actor Danny Hicks in the late 1980s, making his debut appearance on screen as Jake in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II. Hicks finished out the ’80s with a memorable starring role in the supermarket-set slasher Intruder, also appearing in Maniac Cop just one year prior. Hicks later appeared in Darkman, Wishmaster and My Name is Bruce.

We’ve learned the sad news today that Hicks, just 68 years old, has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and his convention manager is asking horror fans to pitch in and help.

Hicks posted on Facebook, “To all of the people that I never got to meet, and the 6,018 die hard fans that enjoyed my work. I have some bad news. I have been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. I have approximately 1 to 3 years to live. But I gotta tell ya, I sure as hell packed a whole bunch of living into my 68 years. I got no change coming back that’s for sure. And not too many regrets. Ok, gotta go. I’m gunna find out just what in the hell is going on down in that fruit cellar.”

To help pay for Danny’s medical bills, Dominic Mancini has launched a fundraiser over on Go Fund Me, along with the opportunity to donate and receive an autograph from the actor.

Mancini explains, “Danny is not one to ask for charity, but with that, he brings yet another opportunity to his fans. His days of traveling to conventions are in the past, but he has agreed to partake in one last autograph signing for those fans who never got the chance to get one in person. Whether you need him on a cast piece that you have, or want a signed 8×10 photo, we have your back! Full Empire Promotions will be putting up an online store, where 100% of the proceeds will go to help Danny with his medical expenses.”

“The store will have the option to buy a signed photo or send in your own item to be signed. The store will be live at www.FullEmpirePromotions.com starting June 4th. The signing will take place early/mid July and all orders will be due by July 6th. This is the last time you will be able to obtain Danny’s autograph personally from him,” Mancini adds.

If you’ve enjoyed Hicks’ work over the years – and who among us hasn’t? – and you’ve got anything to give, please do consider it. And be sure to share the info with your fellow fans.

We’re a family here in the horror community and we need to take care of our own.

#Danny Hicks #Evil Dead 2 #Evil Dead II

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if-we-are-free-tell-me-why · 6 years ago

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some fb spoilers comming your way, if you care...

boy that was a dumpster fire of a movie, wasn’t it? The most boring dumpster fire I have ever seen. Where even to beginn?

- the Nagini thing was so flippin’ pointless they say the name once in the beginning and afterwards she has nothing to do? Like at all. She just walks around has no agency and no motivation, barely talks and just...argh

- the female characters in general were so so bad. Queenie feeds Jacob a love potion in order to marry him and the movie does not take a stance on that. Like if all of the sudden Queenie was a manipulative, desperate woman who would do anything for a relationship and be it a non consensual relationship that would be bad but at least the movie would come out to say that LOVE POTION BAD as is I think they wanted to make it a joke. Like haha Jacob is super funny when he is drugged and oh no now the couple which was so cute in the first movie is fighting and we need to reunite them. We don’t have to reunite them. I think we need to seperate them and keep them apart because that shit is not healthy. And obviously Quennie turns dark but she is only framed as such near the end when she starts to listen to Grindelwalds rhetoric. Her storyline is dark before that, but I feel like the movie doesn’t know that. Also just how stupid is it that ‘Muggles are inferior but like, I won’t kill them, just maybe expolit them’ is the argument that convinces Queenie to join him in her fight to marry the man she loves (btw I don’t think thats love thats unhealthy and creepy and I need to take a shower this was so poorly done)

-another female character that was so dissapointing was Leta. Holy Guacamole what was that? They built her up in the first movie like she had this big role to play and objectivly there was a plotline surrounding her but not once was I compelled to care for it. And I wanted to. I really liked her backstory but in the present day she had no personality and no role outside of her relationship towards the two brothers. And then they added in her backstory like it was some sort of huge twist that the whole movie had built up to and then she dies? No! Why? Who wanted that? Why? She barely had time to be someone and then she has to sacrifice herself? The first WoC in the HP francise gets this ending? And this movie? No. That’s not ok.

- Tina is Tina. idk. she wasn’t terrible I just don’t get why they keep insisting that there are romantic feelings towards Newt.

-In general it felt like the movie was afraid to let a female character exist outside of a romance subplot. Like they couldn’t establish that Newt has an assistant whithout showing that she has a crush on him? Even the evil French Grindelwald lady seemed to be in it for ...ya know. And she has like three lines

- There was so much unnecessary stuff Soo much. And a lot of pandering that was forced, did nothing and made the movie longer.

-you could have cut Hogwarts and you would lose nothing. Letas and Newts past there did nothing exept foreshadow the floaty white thing that turns out to be a baby blanket in the water I guess

-Who is the protagonist? Is it Newt? Dumbledore? Credence? I feel like it should have been Credence because the movie does not spend enough time with him for the audience to build any sort of connection. I didn’t know I was supposed to care about who his parents are until the whole movie culminated whith the boat reveal thingie. I was convinced that scene was like a poorly done half point not the flippin’ climax

-Newt was great. But there was almost no Newt.

-If you thought that Dumbledore had a really good motivation not to go after Grindlewald, don’t worry. The movie fixed it. If for example you were under the impression that it were in fact his feelings or rather his remorse for having had these feelings and all the trauma this crush has brought him then don’t worry. There is an ansolutely stupid and queerbating-esque explanation instead.

See there was a pact they had that came with all sorts of magical reasons why Dumbledore didn’t act. His feelings don’t play into all of this at all (Anymore) so if you were afraid to actually see any interesting motivation fear no more. JK fixed it for you!

-In general every minor character was like an old white man and it was hard to distinguish between them

-also is it just me or is the acting kind of bad? I don’t blame the actors I kinda blame Yates. All the side characters (and there are many of them) feel super one dimensional and stale. You can always see right through them. The evil lady is evil, the evil ministry dude is evil and there ist just no depth to any of it.

this thing is super long but I kinda want to exemplify this with the dead of Letas mom. (The implications of this plotline are super creepy and racist just so you know but I am sure there are many other people out there who will get more into that) So the mon dies in childbirth right? And I want to feel sorry for her. But it’s so clean, so sterile. she lies there as if she was sleeping and I don’t want overdramatic gore or anything just a little bit of emotion from somebody. Why isn’t she sweaty? Why ist no one shocked or sad or ...something? If no one on screen reacts then I as an audience member have nothing to respond to. Why don’t we see her husband super angry and sad? it is his reaction that ist important for his son to make this vow. Instead we see a woman lying there rather peacefully and then vanishing. There can be no response to such staleness.

And that’s the thing it shouldn’t be stale it should effect me.

Nothing in this movie made me respond emotionally. Not the pandery thingst that are there to awaken my nostalgia not the characters that I liekd in the first movie

-Jacob also. It makes me happy to hear that a lot of people like him. But here he is the only comic relief that is allowed and of course he ist because he is also the only fat character. I would have espechially liked some growth because his relationship turned so dark and I feel like he xould have responded to all of that. There needed to be a character who question the whole Grindelwald rhetoric more and he would have been perfect.

-Jonny Depp is not special. He was serviceable at best. But the role screams for just a super charsmatic dude. Like let’s have Tom Hanks play Grindelwald. Soneone you could actually fall for and not this peace of raw chicken

-I feel empty after watching the movie. Like every new piece of HP stuff just drains me further and I don’t like to think about what that does to my love of the series.

-the only way to fix this franchise is a new director and a screenplay writer that tells JKR what a screenplay should do.

-oh and also Credence is Dumbledores brother? They wanted this ‘I am your father’ moment sooo badly. But I was just bored by it. I don’t see it being relevant. Dumbledore already lost a sibling to Grindelwald why repeat that?

Tl;dr: Fb2 is so so bad. In terms of representation: Every minority group is somehow written poorly and in terms of just being a movie. It feels like a TV episode. A lot of things happen but it does not stand on its own and watching it unfold offers no satisfaction. I left the cinema a colder person.

#fb2 #fb2 spoilers #crimes of grindelwald #fantastic beats and where to find them #negativity

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