Evil Dead 2 was released five years after the original Evil Dead movie. This time around instead of making a true sequel director Sam Raimi remade the first film although this just isn't your average remake. While it doesn't continue exactly on from the first film it sets up the same story.

The first ten minutes are like a flash back of the first movie only this time it ignores all Ash's friends. This time it's just Ash and Linda who go to the cabin in the woods. When they arrive Ash finds a tape recorder and a book. After listening to the tape Linda disappears. Soon she reappears only this time she's a zombie. After a quick decapitation Ash must find a way to escape only now bridge out of the forest has been knocked down. From here it takes on from where the first film left off. Ash is trapped and must once again survive a night in the cabin and once again face the evil dead that lurks in the darkness of the woods all around him but not before been joined by a group of people who one by one fall victim to the evil.

Here Raimi went for a more comic approach to the first movie and he does it in style. The gore is really pumped on here but in a way when it doesn't fall victim to the usual cheesy gory guts, instead relying just on blood and smoke which is part of the reason it managed to escape censors which so many other movies fall victim to. Flowing from bodies, hands and even the walls Evil Dead 2 is the ultimate bloodbath.

This is the film where Ash gets his trademark chainsaw hand and double barreled shotgun for dispatching the evil deadites. This film is like a super gory, super sick version of the Three Stooges. It has all Raimi's trademark work including the wheelbarrow camera and super fast camera movements and put together with the over the top gore and his sick sense of humor it makes for any horror movie fans dream.

The Cabin
The cabin used in Evil Dead 2 isn't the same one used in the first film. The cabin used in Evil Dead 2 can also be seen in the movie The Color Purple.

Linking from The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2 doesn't take off exactly where the first film left off. The first five or ten minutes are a quick run down of the first film up until Ash is knocked up through the trees by the wind type demon. From here Ash must survive a second night in the cabin. The reason for this is that Raimi couldn't get the rights to use footage from the first movie so he had to redo the flashback of the last movie. This time around all the actors from the first film had gone off to do other things so they ignored all that and just did Ash and Linda going up to the cabin.

The Budget
Evil Dead 2 cost $3,000,000 to make.

DVD
Evil Dead 2 is available on DVD from Anchor Bay. No extra's except the theatrical trailer. [my review]