{"id":1958,"date":"2012-02-11T16:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T22:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2012-02-11T16:21:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T22:21:33","slug":"notes-from-the-attic-crimewave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/notes-from-the-attic-crimewave\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the attic: Crimewave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Sam Raimi\/Coen Brothers film you've never heard of. We watched it a while ago in movie club. It deserves a mention.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crimewave2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crimewave2.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crimewave2-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more-->From what I understand, the story goes like this: After the success of Raimi's <strong>The Evil Dead<\/strong> (1981) he was give a big-budget, big-studio deal to do whatever he wanted. He teamed up with the Coen Brothers (who were probably just finishing their amazing <strong>Blood Simple<\/strong>) to make <a title=\"IMDb!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088967\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crimewave<\/a>, aka The XYZ Murders. Not used to working in the studio system, they went over budget and way off schedule. The studio stepped in, shuffled some things about and finished the film. The result: a highly-entertaining, cartoon-y, madhouse romp. It was given a tiny release in 1985 and has been basically shelved in the US ever since. Apparently Sam Raimi was never happy with the finished film and this might explain why it's never had a proper DVD release in the States.<br \/>\nI say get over it and release the damn thing. It's aged well and is wildly fun.<br \/>\nYou can get your hands on imported DVDs and VHS copies. I suggest you do.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crimewave3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crimewave3.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/crimewave3-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><br \/>\nI don't know why Bruce Campbell's character isn't in this poster...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Sam Raimi\/Coen Brothers film you've never heard of. We watched it a while ago in movie club. It deserves a mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}