Evil Dead II

I took a couple of weeks off from posting or, rather, from watching movies because I was preoccupied with working my way through all nine seasons of The Office.

My return to the blog is part 2 of the Evil Dead series.

Following this is a re-telling of part 1 in which our hero Ash only takes his girlfriend to the deserted cabin of the first installment. The find the book, girl loses her head, Ash is left to face the evil spirits all alone. He does lose a body part, as well. To save himself from alien hand syndrome he cuts the affected limb off with a chainsaw. And he goes slightly mad.

Soon he is joined by a group of four people, one of them the daughter of the owner of the cabin. Her scientist father found and translated the evil book and it was his voice on tape that called on the evil spirits. The daughter now brings with her the means to undo all that - missing pages.

But before they are saved of anything more blood will flow.

Basically the same as part one with different cast (except for the wonderful Bruce Campbell). The main difference is that this one does not take itself too seriously.

7/10

The Evil Dead

Poor timid Ash. Here he thought he was going on a nice road trip with his girl, his sister and a couple of friends. And then it turns into this horror trip.

First, they hear weird sounds and the basement door flies open. When they investigate they find a nasty looking book and an audio tape. Feeling adventurous, the friends listen to the tape that unfortunately releases demons onto the little cabin they are in.

Then the sister investigates noises in the woods (like you do) and gets attacked by same woods (so far, so normal). The group soon realizes that all is not well and they will be stuck at least for the night.

But soon sis starts turning into this...thing that attacks and after she injures the girlfriend, she turns as well. So the demons take one after the other with only Ash remaining to fend for himself. And boy does he give it his all. He makes a full transformation from scream queen to bad ass in the course of this one night. He lives to tell the tale.

Cult horror that pulls out all the stops and sometimes, interestingly, slows down to show, say, bodies decaying before delivering another blow.

Quite awesome, this.

8/10