Ash vs Evil Dead (TV Series) The Morgue (2016) User Reviews

Disturbing and offensive

[GeoffC123 · 10/10 · 10 October 2016]

This particular episode of Ash vs Evil Dead included what was undoubtedly one of the most disgusting, disturbing, repulsive, vile, and offensive scenes I have ever seen in movies or television in all the 40 years of my life. And it managed to do all of that while remaining brilliantly hysterical!! I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of drugs that were involved in the creation and execution of this one-of-a-kind sequence, but I salute the writers and creators and Bruce for pulling it off flawlessly. GENIUS!

That scene alone, in all of its unique glory, makes this the most memorable episode to date of a surprisingly terrific series.

Scatalogical humour and an excess of blood and guts.

[BA_Harrison · 10/10 · 2 February 2019]

After a so-so start to season 2, director Tony Tilse steps up to the plate and knocks episode 2 out of the park. If you enjoy the OTT splatstick of early Peter Jackson, this one will have you grinning like a loon with its outrageously gory special effects.

With the action largely set inside a morgue, where one of the corpses contains the Necronomicon, the aptly named The Morgue opens with a messy looking autopsy (internal organs strewn all about, skull sawn open to remove the brain), which is nasty enough, but nothing compared to the episode's 'gore de force': Ash begins to slice open all of the bodies in the morgue with his chainsaw; when he finds the missing book, the corpse's internal organs fight back, pulling Ash's head into its rectum. Some seem to have found this scene a step too far, but for me it hit just the right note. I found it absolutely hilarious - in glorious bad taste (the body even has a pierced bell-end) with impressive effects.

This scene alone qualifies The Morgue for a 10/10 rating, but Tilse still sees fit to throw in one more cool splattery gore effect before the end: the juicy decapitation of a deadite. Tilse, you legend!

G(L)ORY!

[stellan-sjolin · 9/10 · 1 February 2022]

Obviously there are a few people out there who never watched any real 80s horror flicks (your loss) and then decide to watch this show (why?) and gets offended by some.. bodyfluids that are not blood. If you ever watched som horror movies of the kind you dont find on netflix, you gonna love this episode.

Poor fellow, guess he didn't have the heart to carry on without me

[tenshi_ippikiookami · 7/10 · 7 November 2016]

Second episode of the second season and... nothing much happens.

Ruby tells the team that she has left the book inside a body, so Ash and Kelly go to the morgue to recover it while Ruby and Pablo (for no specific reason) stay behind, in Ash's room. Probably so we can have two plots for the prize of one. Not that much happens in any of the two. Sadly, the episode lacks the wit, the action and the fun of the first episode and just feels like a filler.

The important part is what happens at the morgue where... well, we have bodies, some "disgusting" moments, some blood and slimy alien-like things. Campbell goes through the motions and does a good job in making fun of his character. But really, not much is really going on, and it just seems to be there for shock-value. It is as if the writers decided to bring the characters to the morgue just to show dead bodies.

What makes the episode get so high a mark then? The characters are still cool, their banter is agreeable, the action is acceptable, there are a couple of funny moments, and the episode goes fast enough that it doesn't overstay its welcome. Ash is still amazing, but the Evil Dead... Well, need to work harder.

A let down after the great start of the season.

A major thumbs down instead of one up the...

[hitman_1980 · 6/10 · 18 October 2016]

This could have been a great episode but they took the gore to an extreme, disgusting level and I didn't find entertaining at all. There's a particular scene (trust me, it really stands out, in a bad way) that tried to be bad-ass (ha!) but managed to be just bad-taste instead. I am a big fan of the Evil Dead trilogy and enjoyed the first season of Ash vs The Evil Dead, although it didn't have much substance. Ash's one-liners and attitude overall managed to make up for that, kudos to Bruce Campbell for pulling that off. But this particular episode of season 2 was simply disgusting and I can only hope that future episodes won't offer that kind of "treatment" again. I was surprised to read that many viewers actually enjoyed that particular scene, or at least came up with excuses for it. Sorry, but(t)...

A bit overboard

[Abdulxoxo · 7/10 · 2 December 2020]

Ash and Kelly went to the morgue to fetch the Necronomicon While Ruby and Pablo deals with a deadite and Pablo's premonitions that has been gifted to him by the Necronomicon.

There are some really gross-out moments in this episode, The scene with Ash and the intestines and all, are really gross and over-the-top, and it's just something you can't unsee. They need to tone down the gross-out humor a little bit. Nevertheless, there are some funny one-liners here and there, and headless deadites, blood and gore as per usual.

Ash vs, um, an ass hole?

[The-Social-Introvert · 19 October 2016]

This episode is a bit of a step down from the opener. Ash travel's to his town's morgue to find the Necronomicon which Ruby hid from her children in a corpse.

The reason for my less than favourable opinion of this episode is mainly due to the disgusting scene in the morgue where Ash literally has a fight with an intestine reel which pulls him into a corpse's ass hole. The corpse instantly begins sh**ing all over Ash's head and its dick flaps all over his face. I mean, that's taking it a little too far now. It wasn't funny, just repulsive.

Before said scene there was a shot of a naked female corpse torso, which surprised me since female nudity is becoming less common (you know, feminism and equal rights and yada yada yada). I should have known it was only there to be a balancing act for the dick in the face scene.

Whilst all this is going on there's also a cringe worthy scene involving Kelly and a security guard. The dialogue is surprisingly bland in it.

Pure bad taste

[Leofwine_draca · 6/10 · 7 May 2021]

I'd heard a lot about this infamous 'morgue' episode and was looking forward to it, but I was disappointed to find that it merely goes down the 'bad taste' route with extreme scatalogical humour. Not my cup of tea really; a bit more finesse and imagination would have done wonders.