Evil Dead II
 | Starring: Sid Abrams, Josh Becker, Sarah Berry, Denise Bixler, Bruce Campbell Starz / Anchor Bay, 1987, DVD Customer Rating: 454 reviews Recommend |
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Ash (Bruce Campbell), the sole survivor of The Evil Dead, continues his struggle with the forces of the dead. With his girlfriend possessed by demons and his body parts runnning amok, Ash is forced to single-handedly battle the legions of the damned as the most lethal — and groovy — hero in horror movie history!
Welcome to Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn, director Sam Raimi's infamous sequel to The Evil Dead and outrageous prequel to Army of Darkness! This unhinged horror classic is now fully remastered in state-of-the-art Dolby Digital 5.1 supervised by THX and packed with extras. So, sit back, strap in and rev up the chainsaw: Evil Dead II has returned...like you've never seen or heard it before!
Writer-director Sam Raimi's extremely stylized, blood-soaked follow-up to his creepy Evil Dead isn't really a sequel; rather, it's a remake on a better budget. It also isn't really a horror film (though there are plenty of decapitations, zombies, supernatural demons, and gore) as much as it is a hilarious, sophisticated slapstick send-up of the terror genre. Raimi takes every horror convention that exists and exaggerates it with mind-blowing special effects, crossed with mocking Three Stooges humor. The plot alone is a genre cliché right out of any number of horror films. Several teens (including our hero, Ash, played by Bruce Campbell in a manic tour-de-force of physical comedy) visit a broken-down cottage in the woods — miles from civilization — find a copy of the Book of the Dead, and unleash supernatural powers that gut every character in sight. All, that is, except Ash, who takes this very personally and spends much of the of the film getting his head smashed while battling the unseen forces. Raimi uses this bare-bones story as a stage to showcase dazzling special effects and eye-popping visuals, including some of the most spectacular point-of-view Steadicam work ever (done by Peter Deming). Although it went unnoticed in the theaters, the film has since become an influential cult-video favorite, paving the way for over-the-top comic gross-out films like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. — Dave McCoy
Title: Evil Dead II
Sales Rank: 4953 in DVD
Actor: Sid Abrams, Josh Becker, Sarah Berry, Denise Bixler, Bruce Campbell
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay, 2000-08-29, Theatrical Release: 1987-03-13
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, THX, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.85:1
Languages: English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: Unrated
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 84 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches, 0.25 pounds
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- Groovy.....another cult gem
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- Welcome to the evil book of the month club...
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