A
young man maned Ash (Bruce Campbell)
takes his girlfriend Linda (Sarah Berry)
to a cabin in the deep dark woods for a
vacation hoping to have a romantic night
but the home is owned by a professor
named Raymond Knowby (John Peaks) and his
wife Henrietta (Lou Hancock) as they are
not at the cabin so basically they're
trespassing.
Ash finds a professor's tape recorded
recitation of passages from the Book of
the Dead and he plays it.
The spell calls up an evil force from the
woods which attacks Linda crashing open
her berdroom window and then turns Linda
into a monstrous Deadite.
Ash beheads Linda and buries her but the
wevil force nearly threatening Ash
himself and he also finds himself trapped
at the cabin as the bridge he crossed
with his car is torn away.
He tries to keep his sanity together but
Linda's corpse returns from the grave and
attacks him. Next, his hand becomes
posessed and he chops it off. Then his
hand is loose around the house trying to
attack him.
Later on, the professors daughter Annie
(Sarah Berry) and her friends tries to
visit the cabin hoping that her parents
will be there but after realising that
the bridge was torn open they hike to the
cabin.
After not realising that her parents
aren't there Ash is locked in a cellar as
Annie thinks that he was responsible for
all the havoc there, but after they
experience some ghouls after Annie and
her friends play the tape they all try to
survive the insanity with the evil
spirits as Annie's friends start turning
into them.
This a film that
beared no resemblance to the first one as
they
changed continuity at the beginning of
each film
It had lots of tongue in
cheek and Three Stooges
slapstick type dark comedy to make up for
the darkness of the first one as the
story went in it's own direction.
There are lots of funny moments like
Ash's cut off hand giving him the salute
it.
Made on a bigger budget, neat effects and
making the film look more mainstream but
this one bares no resemblance to the
first one and more of a remake too.
The ending was great as it introduces the
sequel to Army of Darkness.
The acting is very
well performed with better actors too.
Bruce Campbell's performance is well
done and has good timing with his comedic
performance as Ash and is extremely
energetic too.
Dan Hicks plays a great goofy
redneck and is a natural character actor
trying to battle off the ghouls in the
cabin as he's probably my favourite
character in the film. He shows great
aggression too when he is trying to find
his girlfriend in the deep dark woods.
There is a naked
stop motion corpse dancing around.
Lots of green
gooey stuff
A woman is decapitated
There's a cut off hand
Also some eyeball gags.
Sam Raimi
is great with directing the dark comedy
segments as his film gave me a few
chuckles.
He directed Campbell terrifically
with his actions around him like him
battling a corpse with a chainsaw
We get the tree molesting segment again
performed by Kassie DePaiva
as it is more high paced.
The surroundings of the woods and the
ghouls was well shot too.
But his work with Campbell and Sarah
Berry's scene when she tries to cast
a spell to get rid of the evil was
terrifically directed abnd very
enthusiastic.
The music was composed by Joseph
LoDuca and is great with the smooth
but chilling violin playing and creepy
tones. Very well done Joe.
[first
lines]
Scotty: Hey Ash, where are we?
Ash: Well we just crossed the
Tennessee border...
Linda:
Hey Ash! I guessed the card right!
Ash: Yeah... truly amazing.
Voice:
Join us...
Voice:
I know now that my wife has become host
to a Candarian demon. I fear that the
only way to stop those possessed by the
spirits of the book is through the act
of... bodily dismemberment.
[Cheryl
has become possessed]
Cheryl: Why have you disturbed our
sleep? Awakened us from our ancient
slumber? YOU WILL DIE!
Cheryl:
[possessed] Soon all of you will
be like me... And then who will lock you
up in a cellar?
[cackles]
Shelly:
[Shelly's face smoking and scarred]
I don't know what I would have done if I
had remained on those hot coals...
Burning my pretty flesh.
Linda:
[singing] We're going to get you.
We're going to get you. Not another peep.
Time to go to sleep.
Cheryl:
Kill her if you can, loverboy.
[Shelly
has been hacked into several pieces]
Ash: We can't bury Shelly. S-She's
a friend of our's.
Ash:
You bastards! Why are you torturing me
like this? Why?
[last
lines]
[an unseen force rips through the
cabin and comes up behind the
unsuspecting Ash]
Ash: Aaaaaah!
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