(Finally solving his problem with a chainsaw, Campbell imprisons the wayward hand under a trash can weighed down with a copy of "A Farewell to Arms.") The long scene in which the hand that once fed him does some terrible, terrible things to Campbell is typical of Raimi's slapstick horror. Bixler gets help - from other ugly dead folk, from mighty oaks that stalk the cabin and from Campbell's own right hand, which has become possessed. It doesn't take long for the plot to sicken: First the Dead claim Bixler, who spends the rest of the film trying to claim Campbell and the other folks who eventually show up at the cabin (including the prof's daughter, who may save the night).
Trouble appears the moment they sneak into the remote cabin of a professor who in the previous film had been translating "Necronomekon - The Book of the Dead," inadvertently unleashing the spirits of the dead, who must then inhabit living bodies in order to escape an eternity in Cleveland (or something like that).
Bruce Campbell (who also starred in the first "Evil Dead" and who looks like a bug-eyed David Byrne on steroids) is once again headed for those proverbial deep, dark woods with his girlfriend (Denise Bixler). In Raimi's world, there is no rest for the eerie. "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.
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.
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