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| - TOP TEN REASONS FOR YOU ***NOT*** TO SEE THIS SHOW. (based on reading other reviews)
1. The show doesn't have any celebrities. NOPE! No Lady Gaga, no Justin Timberlake, no has-been from a decade or two ago from some short-lived TV show or anything like that. If you want that, go see some show on the strip with a celebrity you know. Carlos Santana does a show at the Mandalay Bay. Penn & Teller do a show at the Rio. I highly recommend both of those but your mileage may vary.
2. This is NOT a big fancy production with thousands of extras and big flashy explosions or a chorus of thousands singing and giant immaculate stage settings and props. David Hasselhoff will NOT be swinging from the ceiling on a wire in a cameo as a Candarian demon with fire shooting out from both ends. If you want that, there are tons of big shows elsewhere on the strip. Go see one of those instead. Maybe even one of those given for free you can watch from the sidewalk in front of a major casino on the strip once every hour. This is a pretty low-budget production in comparison.
3. There is profanity. Dirty jokes. Lots of dialogue (both scripted and ad-libbed) that is not in good taste. Sophomoric 3rd grade humor by the bucketload. If you can't handle this, stay in your hotel room and watch the tube or go see some OTHER show.
4. This is definitely NOT high art. If you want that there are plenty of other shows to make you go ooh and ahh and soil your panties/briefs/undies over how artistic and beautiful the production and performance is. This is NOT such a show. Go watch an opera or see a Shakespeare play instead. This is a cheesy musical based on some cheesy horror flicks about a bunch of college kids who went to a cabin in the woods to get laid and end up playing a cassette of a professor reading key excerpts from the Necronomicon that happen to summon deadly demons. The demons possess everyone but the main character and he heroically kills them all. That's the plot in a nutshell. Sound stupid? Save your money and see something else.
5. You did NOT see any of the movies. Wait a minute. If you haven't seen the movies what in the Rumpelstiltskin's mother diddling heck are you doing watching this in the first place? Why would you even be curious to see this? Why would you even give two units of fecal matter enough to pay admission? See the movies first. I don't care if you download them off Pirate's Bay or steal them from your local library or borrow them from your basement dwelling friend. See the movies first. Otherwise every single reference and all of the action on stage will be close to 100 percent lost on you.
6. If you can't handle watching a musical where every cast member is not a professional singer/musician and may hit a sour note once in a while, this is not for you. If you go to see orchestras while thumbing through the score and snorting whenever you catch a musician missing one of them hemi-demi-semi-quavers then this isn't for you either. Plenty of other shows on the strip. I suggest either strong medication or a long walk off a short pier as other possible alternatives.
7. The show doesn't have well-known professional actors. This was a community theater type production that was brought to the Strip AFTER success at that level for over a year. If you can't deal with that, see some other show or stay at home or in your hotel and watch something on PBS.
8. Even if you HAVE seen the movies, this musical STILL may not be just your cup of tea. In fact I will go out on a Candarian demon's limb and assume the majority of fans of the movies aren't really into musicals PERIOD for the most part. That said, there's this thing called the internet some guy named Al Gore supposedly invented. Also there's this thing called youtube. Search. Evil Dead: The Musical. Many videos. This has already run very successfully in many different cities. Watch a few. You'll find out quick if it's something you really want to see or not. The musical has been performed since 2003 and is NOT the creation of this performance group in Las Vegas. Just saying. There will be no pop songs that you know and love but instead various musical numbers such as "Look Who's Evil Now", "What The Fuck Was That?", "Do The Necronomicon", "Blew That Bitch Away", and my favorite doo wop type number: "All The Men In My Life Keep Getting Killed By Candarian Demons".
9. There is blood. It is squirted on people in the "SPLATTER ZONE". If you can't stomach this, stay home and watch the Disney or Discovery channels. And yes, the "dispensing mechanisms" for this splatter zone are very primitive. But then again, this is not a GWAR concert - no giant "blood cannons" squirting fake blood and guts into the first 8 rows of the crowd.
10. Do not see this show if you are easily offended and have any Candarian heritage in your family tree. That goes without saying.
It's in Planet Hollywood along the Miracle Mile. Lighten up and have fun. I did. Your mileage may vary.
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