“Evil Dead II” is the movie that inspired my love of horror movies. This was the first “Evil Dead” movie that I ever watched. I remember first viewing this movie with my family as a kid, and we were very entertained and amused. lol Not only did “Evil Dead II” make me a lifetime fan of the “Evil Dead” franchise, but a huge fan of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s work as well. This is easily one of my favorite horror movies of all time.

Bruce Campbell is a legend in cinema and his chin can cut through diamond

Awesome sequel of awesome movie. Evil Dead 2 is probably my favorite of all three films, it's just so much fun and over the top that it holds up great even after repeated viewings.

Stephen King was such a huge fan of The Evil Dead (1981) that he convinced producer Dino De Laurentiis over dinner (who was producing King's Maximum Overdrive (1986) at the time) to have his production company DEG (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group) finance Evil Dead II. During the scene where the severed head of Linda bites Ash's hand, Bruce Campbell says the single line "work shed". This line was later re-dubbed in post-production due to the quality of the audio, giving it a strange, slightly "disproportionate" sound to the audio. Nine years later, while filming his cameo in Escape from L.A. (1996), the first thing Kurt Russell said to Bruce Campbell on the set was, jokingly, "Say 'work shed'". Sam Raimi credits Stephen King with making this film possible. Raimi couldn't acquire enough money to fund the production, so King, a huge fan of the original, convinced financiers to give Raimi the money he needed for a second movie. Raimi later made appearances in the miniseries The Stand (1994) and The Shining (1997), both written by King. The large demonic head Ash battles in the climax of the film, which the crew nicknamed the "rotten applehead", was too large and cumbersome for the crew to carry back to California, so it was left in North Carolina and soon disappeared. Its whereabouts were unknown for a number of years until it was found in a Halloween haunted house attraction just outside the original shooting location of Wadesboro, North Carolina. Bruce Campbell's favorite film of the trilogy Ash's chainsaw appears to switch hands in one scene. This is because Sam Raimi decided Ash should walk the opposite way across the room in that scene, so he flipped the negative. Bruce Campbell completely improvised the scene where he fights his possessed hand in the kitchen of the cabin. Sam Raimi praised his performance and used the first take for the film. The smoke that comes from the chainsaw is actually tobacco smoke. Sam Raimi rigged tubing to the back of the chainsaw, hid off-camera and blew cigarette smoke through the tube to create the effect. The actors were completely blind when they had to wear opaque contact lenses when they were playing possessed versions of their characters. The only way they knew how and where to move was through rigorous rehearsals. The producers insisted upon using different colors of blood to avoid an X rating. This proved futile, as the MPAA gave the film an X anyway. The film was ultimately released unrated. The sounds of the evil travelling through the forest were a combination of Sam Raimis voice and audio samples of Orson Welles, technically making this the last film he appeared in in any capacity After watching the final cut of the film, producer Dino De Laurentiis knew for certain the film would get an X rating from the MPAA due to the high amount of violence and gore. However, Sam Raimi argued if the film would be re-cut to secure an R rating, it would only be around an hour long. Since De Laurentiis wasn't allowed to release an unrated film, he ultimately decided to pseudonymously credit his production company under the name Rosebud Releasing Corporation, allowing him to not submit the film to the MPAA and release the film without a rating. In a visual pun, one of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms". The eyeball swallowing shot was actually filmed in reverse. At 1:07:05 Ash's first utterance of his signature comment "Groovy". The failure of Crimewave (1985), Sam Raimi's follow-up to The Evil Dead (1981) prompted him to return to this film, even though the ending of that movie (the unseen "evil" attacking Ash) was originally meant as closure, not a cliffhanger. When Ash was driving away from the forest in the beginning after driving to the bridge and seeing it had been destroyed, the branches that hit Bruce in the face were controlled by Sam. After evil Ash throws Annie across the room, he sees Linda's necklace on the floor. The chain resembles a skull, as it also did in The Evil Dead (1981) when Ash used the necklace to reach the book of the dead near the end of the film. Ash (Bruce Campbell) drives the same 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 as in the original film. The car was owned by Sam Raimi at the time (originally bought by Raimi's father for the family when Sam was 14). Film debut of Kassie Wesley DePaiva A glove belonging to the A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Freddy Krueger character can be seen hanging above the door of the tool shed when Ash carves his girlfriends head with a chainsaw and when he's looking for the pages in the later cellar scenes. This was in response to the use of The Evil Dead (1981) on a television screen in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). The poster for the movie shows a close-up of a skeleton with eyes. This creature is not seen anywhere in the movie, but a similar enemy does show up in the sequel, Army of Darkness (1992). Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's original idea for the film's plot had Ash held captive in the cabin by a group of escaped convicts searching for buried treasure. Bobby Joe's death was originally planned for a man and would have been much more violent with him being split in half by a tree. The Book of the Dead (called Naturom Demonto in The Evil Dead (1981)) makes an appearance in the film's recap of previous events, but is now called Necronomicon Ex Mortis. Although the prologue doesn't show Ash destroying the book in the fire like he did in The Evil Dead, note that the book itself is never seen again in the film, suggesting that its destruction took place off-screen; all the recitations from the book are done from its missing pages that Annie Knowby (Sarah Berry brought along with her to the cabin.

My favorite movie of the franchise, and one of my favorite movies in general. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen it. In my high school drama class, we were assigned a project to do a solo scene. Every else did monologues. I did the possessed hand scene, and beat myself up. I didn’t have a chainsaw, so I used a prop axe to cut my hand off.

@Emulous79

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I love it.

My best friend and I used to watch this movie nearly every weekend from the time we were 12 until we were about 16. We must've watched it almost 200 times!

When everything in the cabin is laughing and ash laughs

i feel like with the demon that busted through the cabin door had half of ashes soul like the evil half

The chain of the necklace is shaped like a skull.....not many people ever notice this little detail.

You can splice all three movies into one. If you do it right, it's completely coherent. 9:18 'Idle Hands' was probably inspired by Evil Dead 2. 25:17 He saws off the shotgun barrels to make the gun more compact so it's "handier" (heh). You can't really do that with a chainsaw because a chainsaw is made for cutting through wood, not metal. If you actually tried to do that, it would ruin the shotgun's barrel(s) AND the chainsaw's chain. The proper way to trim a shotgun barrel is with a band saw or a hacksaw. Then you have sand the muzzle(s) because there's be one or more burs left on it which can mess up the pattern. *Note:* The reason the gun changes from a 20-gauge single-shot to a 12-gauge double-barrel is because, in Bruce's own words, "bigger budget, bigger gun." 28:10 "Rotten Apple Head" 30:42 "Prophesied." Pronounced "PROF-ess-EYED." 32:40 The only way you tell is by the jawline. No one has a jawline quite like Bruce. 33:06 It was always my fave. It's also Joe Bob Briggs's fave too also as well a go go. 33:46 The thing about Sam Raimi is he's always trying to make a Three Stooges movie.

Pure Kinetic Fun, Ash begins His Battle with Evil, This is the Definition of Cult Classic, Rosebud, Awesome Review

Watched this in preparation to get my Ash themed tattoo. I think he might be the most relatable character in horror history.

I binge watch you guys, good stuff! Thanks!

Enjoying your channel......Subbed!!! Keep up the great reviews!

8:31 I genuinely always thought the “work shed” was the thought in his head.

Fantastic review of my all time favourite movie 👊👊 OTSR

Bruce Campbell is god. The tv series is really good too.

@jason36m37

6 жыл бұрын

Sadly those dumbasses cancelled Ash vs Evil dead after only 3 season wow what a huge mistake that was.

@Sam-Lawry

5 жыл бұрын

Yes,sadly Tremors the new serie was cancelled too...a funny goofy B movies style.

@TheSlammurai

4 жыл бұрын

He's such a great dude. I loved him in Burn Notice, too.

The weird piece of music when Ash gets sucked into the vortex is an excerpt from Danse Macabre, which draws lines to the horror themes lol

I saw this movie first on VHS in 1988 then Army of darkness in 1993 on cable then the first evil dead on DVD in 2005

Behemoth is my favourite song from the soundtrack (:

One of my faves also you guys again failed to mention that the dagger and necronomicon are in Friday the 13th Jason goes to hell.

@binnybros

9 жыл бұрын

I think the less said about Jason goes to hell the better lol

Evil Dead 2 is awesome. Groovy

The first in the series I saw as a kid in the days of hiring out videos, and still the best, imo. Some truly ingenious and inventive artistry here.

@AbrasiousProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! I watched it on cable!

"You're going DOWN!" 😂😂😂

@Emulous79

3 жыл бұрын

They also used that in Darkman to hilarious effect, adding "burnhead".

How would a real estate agent sell the cabin after this? The gateway is still open

Please do Army of Darkness. I just think that movie is brilliant!!

I love this film. "I swallow your saoul I swallow your soul"

@Emulous79

3 жыл бұрын

I swallow your Seoul. If deadlites could eat places...

Awesome!!

This movie is amazing

Guys, are you not doing Army of Darkness to finish off the trilogy? It would pave the way for Ash vs The Evil which is coming up.

@OffTheShelfReviews

8 жыл бұрын

+MrLorenzovanmatterho Due to unforeseen events Army of Darkness is taking a bit to tidy as Universal are wagging their fingers at us :) Stay Tuned MrLorenzovanmatterho - Iain

@MrLorenzovanmatterho

8 жыл бұрын

+MLG SkrubLord Haven't seen it yet so I 'm not sure

@captainmartin1219

8 жыл бұрын

I think it is part of the cannon as well as the first two films,but I could be wrong.

I Love evil dead II one of my top fave movies

10:22 "And if your right hand should cause you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; for it will do you less harm to lose one part of you than to have your whole body go to hell." Matthew 5:30

@Emulous79

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Did you just rewrite some of the Bible? Cool :)

To me, the effortless switching from horror to comedy is what makes this one the best. I hated the first Evil Dead; between the gratuitous rape scene, the overabundance of bad claymation, and the StediCam abuse it still demands to be taken way too seriously. Didn't care for Army of Darkness either; it ditches the 'cabin in the woods' element out of necessity but leans too heavily on the clown act and 'homages,' watering down the horror. Ash is less a guy dealing with something beyond his ken and far too much of a smug dick, which doesn't help. (IMO Raimi should always stop with the second movie.) Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn is the ideal balance between the two extremes--the horror is genuinely shocking and creepy while the madness-humor is legitimately funny, and, most importantly, endearing.

@theitfactorjameswheezer2852

5 жыл бұрын

ScreamingScallop your opinions are bad

Groovy.

Evil Dead 2 is a retelling of Evil Dead 1.

I never understood Ash's hair turning white when he sees the final demon. I think its kinda lifted from poltergeist but I still dont get it. maybe its that ghosts&demons suck the life out of you?

@vinsta76

8 жыл бұрын

+KingFossilFER I think it's inspired by the centuries old folklore that you can be so scared that your hair can turn white over night, This is where the likes of Nightmare on Elm Street and Poltergeist got it from. Only in ED2 that demon is so evil and scary it turns his hair white instantly.

@Sam-Lawry

5 жыл бұрын

In real life,some people can have they hair turning white in few days. Mine are now blond white but soon I will be like Leslie Nielsen.

@anthonychase3752

4 жыл бұрын

Or might be too much stress ljs.

@horrorfanandy4647

Жыл бұрын

It’s the idea of too much stress causing his hair to turn white… …and then the streak immediately disappears in Army of Darkness. I guess going through the time portal re-dyed his hair.

I personally love the first & the third one way better.

@boomstickcritique902

7 жыл бұрын

most people say this is the best i think because it balances the horror an comedy it pleases both fans .

they reviewed 3.

Woah

Well the story..........

I didnt grow up with evil dead 2 , i just watched the entire series recently and i really loved evil dead 1. However i watched 1 and 2 back to back and absolutely hate the soft reboot that 2 starts with. To ignore what happened in evil dead 1 to me was disappointing and made evil dead 2 hard for me to watch. I liked that the first movie was aiming more for a horror and not comedy film and i always hear that ED2 is the best but in my opinion the first one is a much better movie than 2 or 3.

Jejejejejejejejejej gross AND cool. Poor Annie.

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The portal is still open snd it has made everything GAY

evil dead 2 become more ridiculous..the plot of the story has changed..y this happen..evil dead 1 very scary..n ash dont so serius character..

I had to turn Evil Dead 2 off after 30 minutes, it is such a bad movie.

Evil Dead 2 is only slightly [("better")] than 3...what a fucking disappointment. Was expecting an actual sequel and got a reboot trash. Cringeworthy three stooges slapstick humor that doesn't work AT ALL. And Evil Dead 3 followed as simply THE most AWFUL and TORTUROUS thing I've ever put myself to watch.

This movie is soooooo awful, I could't even get thru the whole thing. It's not a horror film (like the first) and it's not quite a comedy (like the third)... it fails at trying to be either one. The special effects are good, but the tone of the movie is all over the place. Campbell alone isn't enough to carry this one. I know this movie has its fans, I am not one of them. My suggestion, watch the original Evil Dead, if its not available then look for the second best one, Army of Darkness.