Evil Dead 2 --Review--
02-13-2010, 12:51 AM
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Evil Dead 2
[/B]Evil Dead 2
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Directed by: Sam Raimi
Cast:
Bruce Campbell Ash J. Williams
Sarah Berry Annie
Danny Hicks Jake
Kassie Wesley Bobby Jo
Ted Raimi Possessed Henrietta
Denise Bixler Linda
Richard Domeier Ed
John Peaks Professor Knowby
Lou Hancock Henrietta
William Preston Robertson Voice
Plot:
The story is Ash and his girlfriend go on a romantic getaway in a secluded cabin among the woods somewhere in Michigan, sound familiar? Ash then finds a tape of some doctor who used the house for research on a mysterious evil book known as the Necronomicon. Professor Knowby somehow translated the book and with the help of a huge 1980's tape recorder begins reciting passages from it. The passages he recites resurrect the deadites (the demons of the Necronomicon) and then WHAM all hell breaks loose, literally. The sound of glass breaking and Lindaâs scream from the next room are dead giveaways to Ashâs mistake. He arrives to Lindaâs aid, but finds her missing. Distraught, Ash begins to search for Linda by going outside, but getting more than he expected. Linda pops out of the shadows, but she is not herself, she is possessed. Ash, startled by Linda, falls to the ground next to a shovel which he uses to decapitate Linda as she lunges at him. So just like in the first movie Ash buries Linda and marks her grave, but The Evil Force has plans for Ash. The Force comes after Ash through the cabin, busting through the doors, picking him up, throwing him through the trees, slamming him against a big one, and dropping him in a puddle. This is where the new material begins with Ash coming up out of the puddle possessed by evil and screaming, but soon the evil realizes the sun is coming up and begins to go away. Shortly after the possession subsides from Ash he screams in terror and passes out. Ash awakens and looks around seeing a pair of eyes overlaying the cabin and a disembodied voice saying âJoin usâ. Suddenly Ash decides to get out of there as he rushes to his car and speeds off down the path out from the cabin. Ash quickly discovers that he is trapped by finding the destroyed bridge down the road and he also discovers that he is not alone and has slept most of the day. The sun begins going down and the evil force begins to chase after Ash as he runs to his car and speeds back towards the cabin, crashes his car, flies through the windshield, and continues to run. The force chases Ash through the cabin until he evades it. Defeated, it leaves the cabin and Ash comes out. After a period of solitude, Ash is startled by boards falling off a nearby window, and upon investigation he sees his dead girlfriend Lindaâs headless body dancing and after the dance she attacks Ash through the window. Ash wakes up to discover the attack was just a dream and relaxes. Ashâs relax is short lived as Lindaâs head falls in his lap and attacks him by biting his hand. Ash takes the head to the work shed where he gets the head off but is attacked by Lindaâs body wielding a running chainsaw. After defeating Linda again Ash returns to the cabin where he finds a shotgun or boomstick for the fans, but while loading it he sees a rocking chair in the next room moving and he confronts it to find that there is something invisible in the chair. Ash panics and tries to calm himself in a mirror but is attacked by his reflection. After the attack Ashâs hand becomes possessed and attacks him in a slapstick way much like The Three Stooges. Ashâs hand knocks him out and tries to get a meat clever to kill him with but Ash stops it and cuts his hand off with the nearby chainsaw. In the middle of the movie,some totally new characters show up and it's pretty obvious they're only there to get killed by the demons.But then again,what other purposes can characters in a horror movie have anyway?This second movie in the "Evil Dead"-series is kinda different actually,it gets more surreal here,mainly because Ash has really lost it here in the first half,and the demons appear to be even more over-the-top and more evil.However,they both grab themselves together near the end for their final showdown.Ash is accompanied by a bunch of idiots but as they're idiots,they don't help much and get killed in some rather original ways.I'm not sure when this movie is situated,but I'm guessing this movie acts like the first one never existed.Not that it completely retells the story,it merely summarises it.And as I took this walk on gross-out lane,I found myself very entertained,somehow shocked but I don't have a clue by what exactly and I did laugh along with Ash and the deer head I must say.That scene really puts a spell on you.Almost as great as the first one Annie, unable to find her parents, plays her fatherâs tape finding out that her mother, Henrietta, had become possessed, and that her father tried to kill her but could not completely destroy her, so he buried her in the cellar. Shortly after they find out about this, voices come from the basement and an attack by Henrietta begins. Ash makes it out of the cellar, and Ed suffers from this attack as he is knocked out. Shortly after, Ash explains whatâs going on to Ed, Annie, Jake, and Bobby Jo, but he is interrupted by Henrietta trying to get Annieâs attention. She asks Annie to let her out but she refuses. Ed then becomes possessed and attacks the group. Ash lays waste to Ed, but time stops and strange noises flood the cabin. Annie and Ash begin to investigate, just to find a ghostly head coming through into their world. Is the head of Professor Knowby, who tells them of a way to defeat the evil that swarms the woods outside, and then fades back into darkness. Suddenly, Ashâs hand strikes once again, scaring Bobby Jo out of the cabin. She is quickly grabbed by the trees animated by the evil, and killed far away from the cabin. Jake, distraught by the confusion, peers out for her, but she is nowhere in sight. Annie shows Ash the pages that will defeat the evil, and one in particularly catches his eye: an illustration of a "hero from the sky", said to have defeated the evil in the time of the book; this hero is garbed strangely like Ash. A moment later, Jake, holding a gun, throws the papers in the cellar and demands that they all go out in the woods to search for Bobby Jo. While out there, they donât find her, but instead find the evil force at work once again, and it has moved the trees so they cannot get out. Evil Ash returns and attacks Jake first, but Annie gets away, going back into the cabin. Evil Ash pops up at the door and says âjoin usâ to Annie. She closes the door as Ash tries to get in. Ash heads for the back door of the cabin, and realizing this, Annie heads to the back to lock the door. Ash realizes that he canât get in and hides, while Jake makes his way back to the cabin. Upon getting in the door, he is stabbed by Annie, who was thinking that it was Ash. Annie drags Jake to the front room of the cabin, but unknowingly lays him by the cellar door, where Henrietta disposes of him. Annie backs away only to be attacked by Ash, who lifts her up and throws her against the wall. His evilness is short lived, as he looks down to see Lindaâs necklace on the floor, with the chain laying in the shape of a skull. Then he comes out of his possession, crying for his lost love. Ashâs Mourning only lasts a moment, because Annie begins to attack him, fearing that he is still possessed. He convinces her that he is fine, and so begins the cooperation to rid themselves of the evil around them. They need the pages out of the cellar to do it, so Annie and Ash gather what ever weapons they can find, and they prepare for the final confrontation.Ash cuts open the cellar door and kicks it in. He goes down and gets the pages, and tosses them up to Annie. Annie begins to read them, but gets distracted by an all-out attack by Henrietta. Henrietta makes it up before Ash and attacks Annie, but Ash comes to her rescue and fights with Henrietta. He doesnât seem to be able to gain an advantage, so Annie distracts Henrietta long enough for Ash to recover, and he quickly dismembers Henrietta. Ash's victory is short lived though, and another attack by the evil force begins. Ash is forced to fight it off while Annie finishes the passages to dispose of the evil. Annie is almost cut short by Ashâs possessed hand which stabs her in the back, but she finishes the passage just before dying. The plan backfires slightly, since Ash is pulled into the vortex that is taking away all the evil and sending it back where it belongs.Ash is sent back through time to the time of the âNecronomiconâ. Knights surround him when he hits the ground, and they are just about to kill him when a demon comes flying in to attack them. Acting by impulse and reflex, Ash gets the upper hand and disposes of it with his trusty boomstick. The knights stand in awe, as the demon explodes and the warrior still stands. The leader of the knights (Sam Raimi) raises his face shield and exclaims: âHail he who has come from the sky to deliver us from the terrors of the deadites!â. Ash realizes his fate as the hero in the page illustration of the Necronomicon, and begins screaming âNO!â louder and louder, as the knights gather around him exclaiming âHail!â...and waiting for his command.
Review:
The sequel of the film Evil Dead. A young man named Ash takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin, and plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the BOOK OF THE DEAD or the NECRONOMICON . The dark spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous deadite , and threatens to so the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battlewith chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde, flying eyeball on the other and a dancing corpse in the front yard. "Evil Dead II" is not nearly as good as the original in my opinion. Despite the more professional look and better pacing, I prefer the original for its lack of slapstick. The first worked so well because it was such an unrelenting and grueling experience and was the finest horror film since "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". It didn't take prisoners, and while its a bit dated it still has the power to terrify the audience. Not to mention it had some great if primitive stop motion effects. I really wish Sam Raimi would make another all out horror film again as thats what he does best. That being said, "Evil Dead II" is still quite enjoyable but not terrifying likr the first one, on its own merits. I usually hate films that attempt to combine horror with comedy (such as the reprehensible "Scream" series), as they're often neither scary nor funny. While "Evil Dead II" is never scary, its often hilarious. Imagine an off the wall combination of "Friday the 13th" with the Three Stooges, and you're coming close. The sight gags are often surreal and inspired, the sequence with the hand being the finest. Also, the film is very atmospheric and still maintains a sense of unnerving creepiness, which was completely jettisoned for "Army of Darkness". I'm not a fan of "Army of Darkness", as it had too much slapstick and seemed to be made to appeal to a wider audience. This one has plenty of gore to still appeal to fans of the original. The gore is so over-the-top its difficult to find it even remotely offensive. The sequel to the gory, atmospheric horror flick The Evil Dead is really more of a (black) slapstick comedy... something there was a hint of in the first. Here, it's pushed all the way through... it's cartoony and provided you're into the humor, fun. I found it more cool than fun, honestly; never been into laughing at pain, no matter whose it is. But there's no doubt about it; this film is cool. It's also very much a 'guy' film... get 'the gang' together, call up all your guy friends and get a copy of this film, preferably an uncut one. You'll love it. So did I, no doubt about that. The better part of the film is basically a remake of the first... new characters and new plot points, but the progression and such is the same. The situations are the same, but the ways in which we get to them are different from the first film. It's a fine idea, and it works great, too, because the outcomes of the situations are different, as well... meaning, you see a scene and go "Oh, right, I remember this from the first... oh yeah, now he... what the ...!?" The plot is interesting, new and old parts alike. It's not Shakespeare, but it keeps your interest. The acting is the same fairly low standard as that of the first. The characters are equally ill-developed(though this time, I *could* tell them apart... they were easier to tell from each other, however, so maybe I wasn't the only one who couldn't tell those in the first apart?). The editing is excellent, just as the case was with the first. The special effects have improved... harder to figure out than those of the first, and that says quite a lot. The budget is higher(ten-fold, according to this very site), and it's most definitely noticeable. The emphasis throughout all of the film is mostly on humor and 'coolness' factor, very little on scares and horror. There's about the same amount of gore, at least as far as I could tell. The film is worth watching for just about any guy... regardless of maturity, really. There are things here that will make every guy watching it go "way cool!". One scene in particular had said effect on me... around the one hour mark, involving a chainsaw and a shotgun... anyone who has seen the film already know what I'm talking about, and I won't say anymore so as to not spoil it for anyone who hasn't. See it for yourself; you won't regret it. I recommend this film to any fan of Sam Raimi, gore, the first The Evil Dead, slapstick and/or Bruce Campbell. Of course, all guys should check it out. The film has such a thick 'guy' vibe, it should almost be mandatory for guys to watch it. Anyway, if you fit into one or more of the aforementioned groups, get a hold of this flick and watch it. Chances are high you'll love every second of it.
Rate: 2.5/5
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