Evil Dead II
Directed by Sam Raimi
Kiss your nerves goodbye!
| Released | March 13, 1987 |
| Global Box Office | $10.9m |
| Budget | $3.5m |
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.
Starring Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks... Show All
- Bruce Campbell - Ash
- Sarah Berry - Annie
- Dan Hicks - Jake
- Kassie DePaiva - Bobby Joe
- Ted Raimi - Possessed Henrietta
- Denise Bixler - Linda
- Richard Domeier - Ed
- John Peakes - Professor Knowby
- Lou Hancock - Henrietta
- Snowy Winters - Dancer
- Sol Abrams - Fake Shemp
- Josh Becker - Fake Shemp
- Sam Raimi - Fake Shemp / Medieval Soldier / Possessed Rocking Chair
- Scott Spiegel - Fake Shemp
- Thomas Kidd - Fake Shemp
- Mitch Cantor - Fake Shemp
- Jenny Griffith - Fake Shemp
- William Preston Robertson - The Hand / The Dark Spirit / The Deer Head / The Enchanted Objects (voice)
- Tony Elwood - Luggage Monkey (uncredited)
- David Goodman - Airport Worker (uncredited)
- Gary Jones - The Hand (uncredited)
- Greg Nicotero - The Hand / Evil Ed's Hand / Henrietta's Long Neck Pee-Wee Head (uncredited)
- Tom Sullivan - Baggage Handler (uncredited)
- Robert Tapert - Airport Worker (uncredited)
- John W. Walter - The Hand / Evil Ed's Hand (uncredited)
Reviews
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times:
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn is a comedy disguised as a blood-soaked shock-a-rama.
Owen Gleiberman, Bostom Phoenix:
Evil Dead 2 is the horror equivalent of the hardest drugs there are: it bypasses logic and heads straight for your pleasure centers.
William Thomas, Empire:
The gaudily gory, virtuoso, hyper-kinetic horror sequel/remake uses every trick in the cinematic book, and confirms that Bruce Campbell and [director Sam] Raimi are gods.
Matt Ford, BBC:
[The movie] soon forgets the confines of horror, and whirls off into a strange, almost hallucinogenic cartoon nightmare of flying eyeballs, bleeding walls, and possessed limbs.
Richard Harrington, Washington Post:
Campbell's own right hand [becomes] possessed… Finally solving his problem with a chainsaw, Campbell imprisons the wayward hand under a trash can weighed down with a copy of A Farewell to Arms.
Wilson Chapman, IndieWire:
Evil Dead II recognizes that comedy and horror are fundamentally the same, a model of storytelling concerned with excess and provoking instinctive primal reactions, and delivers one of cinema’s most visceral thrill rides in the process.