Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)

Courtesy of Netflicks, this gem arrived in the mail today

"the movie with the guy that has a chainsaw for an arm"

This sequel/pseudo-remake of Evil Dead, re-imagines and expands on the story told in the 1981 Cult Classic Evil Dead.

Staying at a remote cabin in the woods, an evil force is unleashed into the world, when a tape is played, that reads from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, or Book of the Dead.

Now, for those that loved the first movie, this movie re-tells an abridged version of that story, in about 7 mins. However, it does not capture some of the beauty in the original. (i.e. the burying of his girlfriend, is not as cinematically pleasing. Some of the force shots, are not as impressive)

Also I loved Evil Dead for some of the cheese-E effects and other little things, such as the moons you can see blatantly cut in, or the make-up that changes from second to second.

Well, have no fear, this movie has plenty of its own cheese-E-ness. The make-up did get a lot better, so if you were hoping for bad make-up again, you will be disappointed. However, cheese-E cartoon effects are all over the place, plus you get cheese-E miniature model sets, which are very easy to recognize for what they are.

One Big Difference From Original
Sadly, there is no rape by the woods/branches/twigs/vines scene, but instead we get a headless naked corpse dance.


Re-Watch-ah-Bill-ah-tee
Hell Yeah!!! As soon as the credits stopped rolling, I was at the scene selection screen, skipping right to Ash beating the crap out of himself, then to the scene where he attaches the chainsaw to his arm. OMG! That is probably one of the greatest things i've ever seen.



but you want more reasons? here you go short and sweet:
-Time Travel
-Bruce Campbell

The Cast
No longer being trapped under bookshelves, Bruce Campbell is now the epitomy of Badass.


If you have yet to witness the amazing-ness-a-nin-tiss-a-tee that is Bruce Campbell, you need to watch this movie, but first watch Evil Dead,
so that you can see how cheese-E he can be, and see how many bookshelves he can manage to get trapped under.

But, honestly, he is amazing in this.....now, you do get some cheese, like his delivery when talking to his girlfriend, but that is exactly what I wanted. Now, with having noted his cheese-E-ness, I must say how amazing he was phyiscally in this. When his hand was trying to grab the butcher knife, OMG I fell in love with him. How anyone could not respect this man, is beyond me.



I wonder if Jim Carrey used this scene for inspiration in Liar, Liar

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