In Their Names, Let's Drink To True Love, For a Toad and a Scorpion Fell

I have to issue several warnings about this post:

First of all, it's about a movie that some of you have probably never heard of. It's called The Devil's Carnival, and it was created/produced/directed/paid for/bled-sweated-and-cried-over by a couple of guys named Darren Lynn Bousman and Terrance Zdunich. They collaborated on another fantastic movie you've never heard of called Repo! The Genetic Opera.

For the long and short of it, The Devil's Carnival is exactly that; three sinners go to Hell, and each one is subjected to a performance in Hell's carnival that echoes the sins of their lives. The neat twist to all of this? Terrance and Darren used Aesop's Fables to illustrate the sins. They used three fables; The Dog and Her Reflection; The Scorpion and the Frog; and lastly, Jupiter and His Due. Today's words are about The Scorpion and the Frog.

Second of all, this will contain a few spoilers about the movie, or at least, a part of it. So if you're one of those folks who doesn't want to be spoiled about a movie (that is now out on DVD, by the way, and available through Amazon, Hot Topic, Netflix, Hulu, and The Devil's Carnival website) then you might want to find yourself another post to read.

Movie Review: The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead

Starring: Bruce Campbell, Hal Delrich, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Sarah York.
Produced by: Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert
Directed by: Sam Raimi