Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987)

In this second instalment of the Evil Dead franchise, dear ol' Ash gets splashed on with EVEN more blood than in the previous movie, plus some in a few different colors.

The beginning is a recap of sorts, with Ash going to the cabin in the woods with his girlfriend, sans the three other people from the first movie. Girlfriend gets taken out, Ash leaves, and the thing bounds through the forest and attacks a screaming Ash...
From then on, the movie proper starts.

*spoilers*

Turns out, the demons are only effective at night. Ash gets possessed, but the breaking dawn kicks the demon out of Ash, and Ash is alright again. He tries to drive out to the bridge, but it's been destroyed, both opposite ends twisted inwards towards land.

Elsewhere, this girl, Annie and her boyfriend are also heading towards possessed cabin. Turns out that she's the daughter of the Professor who had lived in that cabin, the one that translated the Book and read out the incantations that brought the demons back. As of then, she doesn't know that her parents are already dead. Since the bridge is down, two hillbillies take them on an alternative trail to the cabin, which means, an extension down the buffet line for the demons.

Ash's hand gets possessed, so he chops it off with the chainsaw in the woodshed. (Later on we get to see how he fashions the thing so he can fit it over his stump of a hand.). After a misunderstanding between the new batch of people and Ash, Ash gets locked in the basement with Annie's (un–)dead mother, played by Raimi-movie staple, Ted Raimi.

After the usual demon-possession, chopping of limbs, and dying of peoples, the Professor's ghostly shade comes and tells of a few other passages that, when read together, will lead to a physical manifestation of the demonic thingies, and they'd get sucked into a time rift.

All things go as planned, with the exception of everyone BUT Ash dying, but the time rift also sucks Ash in as well, and he lands in the Middle Ages, circa 1300AD.

What happens then? That's the basis for the next movie: Army Of Darkness.

Unlike the first movie, which focused solely on horror, Evil Dead 2 has a few subtly-funny moments, one of which is the bit where Ash's possessed hand is running around (since Ash chopped it off), gets caught in a mousetrap nearby, and when Ash laughs at it, the hand flips him off.

As usual, the blood, may it be from person, demon, or orifice (teehee!), spews out from what is referred to as paip bocor (kudos to Wee Nee for coming up with that phrase ages ago).

Like that bit when the guy gets dragged into the trapdoor by Annie's zombie mom. You wouldn't have thought that a human body could hold that much blood.

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