Extremely brilliant horror comedy

Rating: 8/10 (1 May 2002)

Those of you who think that this is a sequal to the Evil Dead are very much mistaken. Before watching this you should discard all knowledge of the original otherwise the plot is nonsensical.
The hero once again is Ash (Bruce Campbell), the setting once again is the cabin in the woods (see what I mean? why go back somewhere your friends were killed?).
Ash takes his new girlfriend to the cabin for the weekend and as you can guess the forces of evil are summoned, just like in the original. Unlike the original, more characters are introduced later in the film, rather than have all the characters introduced at the start and picked off one by one.
This method allows for some extremely funny moments involving Ash battling not only the evil alone, but his own hand (watch the movie and you will see what I mean).
Once the new characters are introduced the comic element of the film fades away, and apart from a few brilliant and incredibly timed one-liners the film reverts to the gore-based orientation of the first.
I have to say that this film is more of a remake of the first than a sequal. But the film is funny and will satisfy horror fans. It is one of the few films that knows when to stop the comedy and resort to the horror, which many films have tried but few have pulled off successfully.
And the events of this film lead up nicely to the Evil Dead's true sequal, Medieval Dead - Army Of Darkness.