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Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

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Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)

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Reviews Counted: 42 Fresh: 41  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.9/10
 
Consensus: Evil Dead 2's increased special effects and slapstick-gore makes it as good -- if not better -- than the original.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Synopsis: In this sequel-remake of the original EVIL DEAD, a group of people are trapped in a cabin while ancient evil lurks outside and threatens a fate worse than death. Can brawny wiseguy Ash save the day, or will his dead girlfriend come back to cause more trouble? An influential comic horror movie... In this sequel-remake of the original EVIL DEAD, a group of people are trapped in a cabin while ancient evil lurks outside and threatens a fate worse than death. Can brawny wiseguy Ash save the day, or will his dead girlfriend come back to cause more trouble? An influential comic horror movie from director Raimi. [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley, Richard Domeier

Director: Sam Raimi
Composer: Joseph LoDuca
Screenwriter: Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel
Producer: Rob Tapert

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 10, 2007

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Disc Features:

  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Sam Raimi - Writer/Director; Bruce Campbell - Actor; Scott Spiegel - Co-writer; Greg Nicotera - Special Make-up Effects Artist.
  • Featurette - 1. EVIL DEAD II: Behind The Screams Featurette
  • 2. THE GORE THE MERRIER
  • Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

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5/5

The gaudily gory, virtuoso, hyper-kinetic horror sequel/remake uses every trick in the cinematic book, and confirms that Bruce Campbell and Raimi are gods.

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09/21/07
Empire Magazine
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The best in the series and one of the top horror movies of the 1980s.

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09/21/07
Channel 4 Film
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Delirious, demented and diabolically funny.

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01/26/06
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4/5

One of the most visually inventive, relentless, and truly original films ever made

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04/17/01
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The Evil Dead II is the sort of film which it is really impossible to describe or summarise. You simply have to come along and experience it for yourself.

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Keith H. Brown
Edinburgh U Film Society
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The Evil Dead remains the stronger film... but this sequel/remake is something of a masterpiece unto itself.

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10/28/07
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth
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3/4

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.

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09/21/07
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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3.5/4

Maximum visceral impact is what this film is all about -- and it delivers.

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09/21/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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A flashy good-natured display of special effects and scare tactics so extreme they can only be taken for laughs.

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09/21/07
Variety Staff
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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.

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09/21/07
Pat Graham
Chicago Reader
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9/10

Best slapstick seen in a horror flick. If Charlie Chaplin were alive today and into terror, he'd be directing this movie. Okay, maybe not -- but at least he wouldn't be dead.

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10/14/05
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum
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Evil Dead 2 is a grade-A masterpiece of morbid mayhem. Find me a horror geek who doesn't agree and I'll take a chainsaw to a body part of your choice.

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10/04/05
Scott Weinberg
DVD Clinic
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3/4

Full-on gore slapstick, more Tex Avery than Dario Argento.

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09/27/05
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine
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4/4

A marvel for its invention and fury.

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09/19/05
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
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3/5

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08/15/05
Emanuel Levy
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4/5

Horror sequels don't come any bigger or better!

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04/25/05
Clint Morris
Moviehole
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4/5

More a rethinking than a sequel and the best of the series.

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09/27/04
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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3/5

No review available.

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08/04/04
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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5/5

It will change your life in deep and meaningful ways.

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04/23/04
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium
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4/5

No review available.

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04/09/04
Ryan Cracknell
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