King of Horror
Horror movies have never particularly interested me but when Evil Dead II was first introduced to me, I immediately fell in love with it. Although it is supposed to be a horror movie, the director, Sam Raimi, added his own twisted sense of humor into it to get a scare and laugh out of his audience. He does this with flying colors with his cheesy use of blood, the stupidity of the supporting characters, the masculinity of the main character Ash, and the Three Stooge's humor placed sporadically throughout the movie. The basic plot this horror movie is that a scientist found The Book of the Dead, which he had been looking for his entire life. After finding this book, he travels to a remote cabin somewhere in the United States and summons demons that possess any human beings in the area. Our brave hero Ash is unaware of this in the first Evil Dead and plays a tape recording that summons the spirits from the woods. All hell breaks loose and Ash is the only survivor at the end. Ash's girlfriend, his best friend, and his best friend's girlfriend all become possessed and ultimately hacked to pieces. After going through an ordeal like this, one would think that it would be highly unlikely for Ash ever to set foot within one hundre
But Ash proves he is the good guy when a possessed creature comes by and Ash whips out his sawed off shotgun and blows its head off. The director, Sam Raimi, explained how certain scenes were taken straight from The Three Stooges and replaced with repulsive humor. It was just so unexpected that it amazed me. Lastly, after the removal of his possessed hand, Ash finds some way of attaching the chainsaw to his right stub on his arm. And once again, possessed creatures are hewn and mangled and Ash is once again the only survivor. So right of the bat, Ash's new girlfriend is killed the exact way his last girlfriend was killed, Ash chops her head off with a shovel. The hand becomes another possessed creature and gives Ash the middle finger. However, our unpredictable hero manages to find the courage to bring a new girlfriend of his to the cabin once again. This piece of the movie struck me as the most ingenious thing I have ever seen. For example, there is one scene where a zombie's head is being squashed in a trap door. He retreats back to the safety of the cabin when he finds night falling again. This is where his strange hallucinations (or are they?) take place. The actor that plays Ash in the movie, Bruce Cambell, also does his own stunt work when the possessed hand is beating him with bowls and plates. This is the point in which Ash goes laughably insane.
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