"Evil Dead" is the postmidnight meld of Roadrunner cartoons and Three Stooges films, but mostly it's a showcase for scary special effects and gruesome makeup: gagging for gags' sake, as it were. With their virtually nonstop geysers of blood, dismemberments and ghastly ugliness (the Evil Dead are not high on personal hygiene), these films are not for the faint-hearted or lily-livered - and definitely not for children.įor adults, however, everything is so Out There, so comedically exaggerated, that there's no way to take the films seriously. The debate over which of the first two EVIL DEAD’s is the best will rage for an eternity but what is indisputable is that like it’s predecessor, EVIL DEAD II is a masterpiece of genre filmmaking.Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn" is a scream of consciousness, a goremonger's nightmare, and so what if it's an almost exact replica of its predecessor, one of the most successful (and, believe it or not, critically acclaimed) films in the horror-gore genre. His high wire tightrope walk between horror and humour is the very benchmark of the genre, one that remains unsurpassed to this day. This film doesn’t just show his inventiveness (we saw that in abundance in THE EVIL DEAD and CRIMEWAVE prior), what it really shows is his maturation as a filmmaker. It’s difficult to write about EVIL DEAD II without sounding over the top and full of hyperbole but that’s exactly what EVIL DEAD II: even today, nearly 30 years after its release, it remains the most outrageously-insane-bad-acid-trip-of-a-horror-movie ever made.ĭespite everything about EVIL DEAD II playing out to the furthest reaches of excess, not once does Raimi ever let it slip out of his grasp, he is always in control no matter how delirious a decapitated dancing corpse may be. Heads, hands and eyeballs fly as Ash wages the ultimate one-man war to save both himself and humanity.
True to form he is joined at the cabin by a hatful of future Deadites and the dreaded Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. And while his 1987 collision of splatter, satire and slapstick maybe less visceral than its predecessor it is no less of a film, in many regards it is its superior.Īsh (THE Bruce Campbell) returns to the infamous cabin that turned his friends (and him) into demons possessed by the Book of the Dead. If there’s any truth to the adage “if you can’t beat em, join em,” Sam Raimi took it to heart with his THE EVIL DEAD sequel / remake, EVIL DEAD II.
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