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Mar 13, 1987 · While Sam Raimi's 1983 ''Evil Dead'' winked at the conventions it played off - young couples stranded in a lonely cabin, possessed by evil spirits, surrounded by foggy moonlight - its sequel...
Apr 21, 2023 · With the original “Evil Dead” and particularly its sequel, Raimi didn’t just make splatter beautiful. He proved it could be hilarious. The two recent movies are far more grim.
- Lee Cronin
- Jason Zinoman
- 97 min
The plot: Visitors to a cottage in the Michigan woods discover a rare copy of the Book of the Dead and accidentally invoke evil spirits. The spirits run amok, disemboweling and vivisecting their victims.
Not so much a follow-up as a ruthless self-parody, Evil Dead II ranks as one of the most visually inventive, relentless, and truly original films ever made. Read More By Matt Ford FULL REVIEW
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- Sam Raimi
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- Bruce Campbell
88% Tomatometer 84 Reviews 89% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings The second of three films in the Evil Dead series is part horror, part comedy, with Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) once again...
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- Sam Raimi
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- Bruce Campbell
Dec 31, 2022 · Anyone playing a quippy and comedic, yet cool leading figure in a film today has seen Evil Dead 2 and been inspired by Bruce Campbell's performance as Ash Williams to some degree, guaranteed....
Mar 16, 2013 · Evil Dead 2 one-ups its predecessor through an unrelenting string of ridiculous, bloody, and surreal off-the-wall gags, both horrific and hilarious. If the original seems exaggerated, the sequel satirizes those extremes by delivering even gorier violence with a flagrant comic edge, testing the audience’s limits.
