Part of Midnight Movies
Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) just had the worst night of his life after a romantic getaway to a cabin in the woods turns horribly sour when he and his girlfriend Linda accidentally unleash an ancient demonic force. Stunned, bloodied and stranded, Ash returns to the cabin only to find the evil spirit more intent than ever on driving him out of his mind. Meanwhile, the daughter of the archaeologist whose initial discovery of the text that summoned this fiendish abomination is on her way to the cabin with a colleague and a group of locals.
Sam Raimi’s follow-up to his earnest, low-budget classic is a horror-comedy magnum opus which set the standard for a sadly underrepresented subgenre. Using cartoon tropes and a ludicrous amount of the red stuff, the film firmly cemented its protagonist — a chainsaw-armed, boomstick-toting supermarket teller named Ashley J. Williams — as one of the grooviest, most iconic characters ever created.
"Rampant inventiveness and manic energy have ensured that it will endure as a cult classic." —Joshua Klein, A.V. Club "The gaudily gory, virtuoso, hyper-kinetic horror sequel/remake uses every trick in the cinematic book, and confirms that Bruce Campbell and Raimi are gods." —William Thomas, Empire Magazine "A ghoulish splatter comedy that uses wildly excessive gore to provoke the kind of shock that lies between a laugh and a scream." —Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune "Just when things start getting too grisly, Raimi rushes in with a hilarious, sendup joke to remind us that all this blood and guts is meant in spooky Grand Guignol fun." —Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "A flashy good-natured display of special effects and scare tactics so extreme they can only be taken for laughs." —Variety
