Episode nine of Season One is almost perfect: it features just the right combination of offbeat humour, pure insanity, and outrageous gore. The only thing that prevents me from giving it top marks is Samara Weaving's scream, which, as I pointed out in my review for Mayhem (2017), is downright weird and kinda distracting as a result.
Weaving plays Heather, one of a group of hikers who turn up at the cabin where Ash is busy trying to dispose of the bodies of his evil clone and Amanda. Pablo and Kelly try to lead the campers away so that Ash can continue his grisly work, but the group are attacked by deadite Amanda, who, in the series' most ghoulish moment, uses two of the campers' dead bodies like hand puppets (shoving her hands into their skulls to operate their mouths!).
Pablo, Kelly and Heather return to the cabin, where things really kick off: Ruby (Lucy Lawless) turns up and says that she knows how to destroy the Necronomicon, but can she be trusted? Can she heck!
9/10 (or 10/10 if you don't find Samara's scream as awful as I do).
