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Evil Dead II (also known as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn and Evil Dead II, the Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror) is a sequel to the movie The Evil Dead
by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell. The story is largely similar to the first film but more humorous, displaying a Three Stooges influence.

Plot

Ash and his girlfiend Linda take a romantic vacation to a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. While in the cabin, Ash plays a tape of a professor, the previous inhabitant, reciting passages from the Necronomicon, or "Book of the Dead", which he has discovered during an archaeological dig. The replaying of this incantation unleashes an evil force, which kills and later possesses the body of Linda. While Ash is dealing with this force, the professor's daughter and her boyfriend/research partner return from the dig with more pages of the necronomicon in tow, only to find the bridge leading to the part of the woods where the cabin resides destroyed. They enlist the help of a local man and woman to guide them to the cabin, where the four of them find an embattered Ash, who is slowly being driven insane due to his encounter with the evil force. Over the course of his battle, he has dismembered his girlfriend's corpse, severed his possessed hand (which he later is forced to battle with using a shotgun to comic effect), and witnessed various household appliances laughing at him. He eventually attaches a chainsaw to the stump of his arm to help fight the "evil dead," a fight joined by the other four (one of whom Ash has accidentally shot). Eventually, as his allies die off one by one, Ash is forced to find the scattered pages of the Necronomicon in the basement (thrown down there by the local man in a failed attempt to take control of the group) where he battles the possessed dead body of the professor's wife. With these pages, the professor's daughter is able to chant an incantation that will send the evil back to where it came from, and dies in the process. The incantation, however, opens up a portal to the 13th century and send Ash, the sole survivor, back with it.

Reception

In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Evil Dead II the 34th greatest comedy film of all time.

Sequel/Remake

There is some question as to whether the film is a sequel or a remake, since The Evil Dead ends with Ash (Campbell) apparently being run down by the invisible demon which killed all the other characters. However, after the recap of the events of The Evil Dead at the beginning of Evil Dead II (which condenses the Evil Dead story to include only Ash and Linda, the only two characters from the first film important to the story of Evil Dead II) Ash is hit by the same invisible force and the story continues from there.

Differences between the recap and the actual events of the first movie are mainly attributed to Raimi's inability to obtain footage from the first movie due to the rights being owned by several different companies in different worldwide territories. Following that, he decided to take a few creative licences with the story to help the flow of the plot. This is the film which introduces the famous chainsaw attached to Ash's arm.

The film was followed by Army of Darkness
, which continues with Ash's adventures in the medieval fantasy world into which he was transported at the end of Evil Dead II.

Quotes

Ash, after building his chainsaw arm: "Groovy."

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