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magine you’re back in high school – that petri dish of bad hair, hormones and music as if it were religion – and you’ve managed to get your hands on an other-


worldly tome that could grant you your darkest desires, consequences be damned. starting september 29, such a text exists. it’s the book of Pure evil and it’s fallen into the horny mitts of a metalhead stoner named Todd and the misfit students of crowley high in a new TV series de- buting on canadian sci-fi network sPace, fit- tingly called Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.


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Over the course of the first season’s thirteen 30-minute episodes, Todd unabashedly wears


its many influences on its jean jacket sleeve: primarily Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy and the films of John Hughes, though co-creator/writer Craig David Wallace professes the show has nu- merous horror touchstones. “Do you mean horror touchstones or stuff we blatantly ripped off?” he asks with a laugh. “[Evil


Dead 2] really exemplified the you-either-get-it-or-you-don’t philosophy behind Todd, where we’re not trying to really do anything except make the show we want to watch. It’s not like any- thing’s calculated. We’re not trying to shock anybody, we’re not trying to appeal to a certain niche. We just sit around in a room and come up with story ideas that get us excited and make each other laugh.” Wallace’s enthusiasm for the show’s blend of witty and acerbic dialogue, heavy metal aesthetic


and monsters is obvious, as he and fellow co-creator Charles Picco finish each other’s sentences while listing off additional references in the show including Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the


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