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Summary: Rating is for DVD quality only; please read on!
Review: RELIEVE SOME TENSION!I can't think of any other film that will make you limp like this one will! Watching this movie (DVD) will take away all your problems, cares, and worries for at least a couple of hours. It might make a good bedtime story for some people, for sure. Most of the time I write about DVD quality because other folks care to discuss plot points. Please understand that's why my ratings often appear low. The picture starts out pretty flaky but improves in dark scenes, which are most of the film. It's not the best picture, especially for 1987. Maybe they filmed this in 16-mm; I don't know. Sound is the real treat here, so you'll want to blast away and maybe have your windows open on a hot summer night. Your neighbors will flee, for sure, after hearing this soundtrack! The fidelity is not deep, but there are moments of great surround treats and they are usually gore-related. However, there are not enough audio mixtures like this in the whole film to merit another star. What's better than the film is "The Gore, The Merrier" featurette. It's amazing what these men and women did. This really enhanced my appreciation of the film, although it's by no means a Dario Argento classic giallo nor like an American thriller. Like I said, if you want to relieve your tension -- plus have your senses knocked silly, this is for you.
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Summary: Groovy or not so Groovy? That is the question.
Review: Evil Dead II. To to start I will say 'Dead by Dawn' inst actually part of the films title and only accompanied the title in the original trailer. I got into these films by watching 'Army of Darkness' which is a very comedic film set in a sort of medevil/noir world. It was only after about four years that i learnt AOD was actually a sequel to the Evil Dead films. So I hired em out. Evil Dead II it stylistically different from the other films in the series but has the perfect combination of them. It has the scares of Evil Dead with the humor of Army of Darkness. There are so many jokes about jokes that youll be watching it time and time again. The film jumps around from humor to horror very often but you dont feel uncomfortable about it which is only testament to the film istelf. THX have certified the DVD which doesnt always mean it is good for anyone who bought the 10th Aniverssary of Hihglander you will know THX can be responsible for hack jobs too. But thankfully this picture is crystal clear so much so that you can now spot mistakes in the shadowy areas of the shots such as cameras and lights hanging in the trees. The color has been altered as much as I can tell to give it a grey look which makes it feel all the more like a 'House on the Haunted Hill'. whoever made that decision should get a medal as it gives more to the film, making the blood stadn out more than if all the colors were at full blast.
You can view the film in widescreen or full screen and the widescreen is the proper version not the 'full screen only cut at top and bottom' ripooff you get sometimes. Sound. Crisp and clear with very little choppy fuzz noise (thats the technical term Im sure). Extras. Now this is why I get DVD's. The menus are great I am a big fan of animated menus and these get a thumb up. Trailer nuff said. 'The Gore the Merrier' featurette showing behind the scenes of the film including your typical Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell jokes, but perhaps the highlight of the featurette is the decapitated killer zomie baby going on rampage. Nice phot galleries and filmographies. AUDIO COMMENTARY!!!!!! This is the best audio commentary I have ever heard. Normally they contain two stuffy old men talking about things that happened when my dad was still a little tadpole. This is great! Bruce Campell and Sam Raimi really give the funniest and most entertaining commentary ever, Sam makes fun of Bruce and...well Bruce makes fun of Bruce.
The only commentary I have listened too twice. So all in all probably one of the best discs I have, and I have more than a few.
If you are wondering if its a good disc dont. My word is bond, the disc is as close to perfect for a single disc realease than is possible. Anchor bay really have succeeded with this. Evil Dead II Get it before they stop making it, if you miss out you will be sorry. :)
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Summary: Evil Dead II
Review: What's it all about? Perhaps I'm just stupid, but to me it tries to fit into the category 'so bad it's good.' It's just bad. If you enjoy intelligent or well-made films avoid this one. However, if you enjoy bad acting, inane scripting, dreadful make-up and haphazard direction it's your film.
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Summary: The Detroit Maverick Strikes Again
Review: This has to be the strangest film ever made. A horror film that is not the least bit scary, it somehow remains one of my favorites of all time. Fuse "the Three Stooges" with "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and you have "Evil Dead 2," the cult classic from Sam "the Detroit Maverick" Raimi, which is nothing more than a blur of campy dialogue, blood-splatterings and whiplash steadicam shots that will have your head spinning. Don't be fooled by the title: this is not a sequel to the low-low budget "Evil Dead." It is a higher-budget remake, with all pretense of horror abandoned in favor of outrageous campiness and the most ridiculoulsy funny violence ever filmed (a demon keeps threatening to "swallow your soul"....the hero chops its head off with an axe....the demon keeps threatening him....hero produces double-barreled shotgun, quips "Swallow this" and blows the talking head to bits). Essentially, "2" is about some witless kids who take up in a cabin deep in the remote forest, and unwittingly (get it?) unleash blood-thirsty, hyperkinetic demons when they read from a cursed spellbook. Sound familiar? Of course it does. You know, for instance, the demons are going to feast on the kids at will, whittling them away with cat-and-mouse games, until just one or two are left....however, it is at this point that Evil Dead departs from every other horror flick you've ever seen. Hero Ash (Bruce Campbell, B-movie God and durable victim of physical stunts aplenty) isn't content to just sit by and be terrified. Oh, no. Instead of playing the scream-and-run role so familiar in slasher movies, Ash goes loco on the demons arses, and with axe, shotgun and chainsaw proceeds to do to them what they so rashly tried to do to him. And boy, does he ever whoop some tail. Picture if one of the victims in the "Friday the 13th" series had flipped his lid, and instead of cowering under the bed, gotten up inflicted a New York Housing Authority ...whipping on Jason halfway through the movie, beating him like a red-headed stepchild and then plunging a sharp instrument through his guts. Now picture that for 85 minutes. That's "Evil Dead 2." A classic.
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Summary: great one
Review: Little do people know that this movie is the sequal. Most think it's a redo of the first. But if you notice it takes place on the second night and not the first and might have a similar begining but the real story begins on the second night. This movie is amazing creative and filled with fun and scary plus comedy on a very dark level. This should be on everyon'e top ten list
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Summary: dead by dawn !!!! dead by dawn !!!!
Review: who would've known that this series would become a cult favorite? certainly not i of all people i am sure. everywhere i go now we see evil dead merchandise from t-shirts, lunchboxes, and stickers in virtually all shopping malls. some of the places i've seen evil dead stuff so far would be gadzook's, hot topic, and ofcourse spencer's. i've seen so much evil dead merchandise that i actually feel guilty for not buying more than the videotapes themselves. having been one of the few lucky viewers who saw mr. raimi's classic blood-splattered comedy on the big screen more than once or twice, i feel a bit ashamed to admit that i don't have more merchandise to support this widely popular film. i am hoping someday (although i'm sure i won't live to see this happen) that a local theatre will play this baby as well as the first one on the big scream. i bought this film about a week ago and i am almost shocked to see how well it looks even to this day. the sound was a bit muffled in one frame or segment possibly but everything else looked as fresh as it did back in 1987 when i first saw evil dead 2 in the theatres. while watching this film, i couldn't help but think that blair witch as well as numerous so-called horror films really do owe a humongous debt to mr. raimi which has never been paid in full. what other films in horror history are so funny they actually could go along well with pee-wee's playhouse had pee-wee and his co-starts all been tripping on acid? hmm, none. IF YOU HAVEN'T JOINED THE EVIL DEAD BANDWAGON YET, YOU HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DEVIL YOU ARE MISSING !!! am i surprised now after all these years that this film holds up so well? somewhat, but i am proud to say i still love sam raimi, bruce campbell, and all the evil dead entries after all these silly years. some things never change but i don't think change is always so necessary.
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Summary: The best horror movie ever!
Review: and I mean that. This is better than the first one. I don't consider the first one as part of the trilogy though. Not that I don't like the first one, it just doesn't flow right. The second one almost recreates the entire first film in the first ten minutes. This film just absolutely rocks. Sam Raimi is the master of creepiness, and there are tonsof scenes that will just knock the cobwebs of ya. There is a scene involving a severed head, and it drops down, and, uhh. You have to se it. Bruce Campbell is the king of the universe, but his movie to shine in is really the sequel to this, Army of Darkness (Which is a hilarious film, and Bruce plays the same character.) Bruce plays Ash, who gets stuck in the cabin over night. His girlfriend gets turned into a monster, so he slices and dices her, and his hand gets infected, causing him to need to lop it off. He then attaches a chainsaw and spews one liners at Deadite monstrosities. Classic stuff. If you haven't seen it, see it now, if you have see it again for the heck of it. the new DVD's featres rock, too. Hail to the King Baby.
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Summary: Truly the Mother of All Sequels!
Review: The movie begins with our hero, Ash (Bruce Campbell), having survived his hellish night of battling the evil dead. Ah, morning's here, time to escape. Wrong! Just as Ash is preparing to leave, the last remaining demonic spirits rocket him through the woods in a very comical scene. Crashing into a tree, Ash regains consciousness only to be possessed by the evil dead, but eventually the morning light chases these spirits away, sparing our hero. Ash then falls unconscious, only to awake as dusk is setting in. . . . ROUND 2. During the ensuing night, Ash battles his dead girlfriend, his own hand (which he lops off with a chainsaw), and more evil dead than you can shake a shotgun at. They are looking for fresh souls. Who can stop these little bastards? I won't tell-but as you can see, there is a sequel.
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Summary: dissapointing, not as good as the first
Review: After reading the reviews, I thought I was in store for a gore-fest. In reality, Evil Dead 2 offers lots of blood flying around but very little visual gore. Many times there was a good opportunity for gore, but the camera just turned away. Even in the documentary they explain how they used black blood in one scene instead of red in order to get a better movie rating []. I felt ripped off after watching this movie, and it left me wondering what everyone sees in it. People say this movie is funny but I did not see it. The best part was when Ash's dead headless girlfriend came after him with a chainsaw, but once again the scene ended with the camera turning away...
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Summary: Gut wrenchingly hilarious!!!!!!!
Review: Evil Dead 2 is by far the best of the trilogy, and its the comedy of the movie that makes it so. The first Evil Dead was a straight forward horror movie that was loaded with gore galore. Evil Dead 2 is really a remake of the original with better effects, better acting, and somewhat better story. There isn't as much gore as there is in the original, but the blood flows and flies everywhere, sometimes with hilarious results. When Ash's hand takes a mind of its' own is one of the funniest segments I've ever seen in a movie, and naturally Bruce Campbell is perfect as the hapless hero. Do yourself a favor, even if you don't like horror movies pick up the entire Evil Dead trilogy, you'll be laughing out loud while you cringe in disgust. Also highly recommended is Bad Taste.
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