Evil Dead II
The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
25 February 1924, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
15 March 1963, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
19 July 1951, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
14 December 1965, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1960
24 December 1957, Walnut Lake, Michigan, USA
23 October 1959, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
October 26, 2016
Enjoyment is the greatest of lost sensations at scary movies, and Evil Dead II endures as an obstinate token of those simpler times.August 30, 2014
The sequel that "The Evil Dead" needed, and in the end it manages to extend its storyline, without ruining the premise from the first film.October 01, 2013
Evil Dead 2's rampant inventiveness and manic energy have ensured that it will endure as a cult classic.April 28, 2013
The best horror-comedy ever made.September 21, 2007
A flashy good-natured display of special effects and scare tactics so extreme they can only be taken for laughs.October 01, 2013
Evil Dead 2 is, pardon the expression, consistently lively -- a ghoulish splatter comedy that uses wildly excessive gore to provoke the kind of shock that lies between a laugh and a scream.September 21, 2007
The pop-up humor and smirkiness suggest Raimi's aspiring to the fashionable company of the brothers Coen, though on the basis of this strained effort I'd say he's overshot the mark.September 21, 2007
Good acting would not have served the material well, since it would have diluted the comedy quotient and made the campy elements seem cheap and cheesy.August 11, 2016
...lives up to its place as a memorably gruesome (and often very funny) splatfest.April 25, 2013
Everything a sequel should be in terms of better but distractingly a reboot that means its predecessor should be wiped away. Two versions of the same thing by the same people is too many.October 01, 2013
Just when things start getting too grisly, Raimi rushes in with a hilarious, sendup joke to remind us that all this blood and guts is meant in spooky Grand Guignol fun.October 07, 2013
Campbell mugs shamelessly and clearly has a ball as scene outdoes scene in comic thrust and haphazard horror.