hometown director makes good

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2002)

O.K. so back in 5th grade I vaguely remember a friend telling me about a movie called evil dead in which a woman is raped by trees, and was the scariest thing he had ever seen. Skip ahead three years. The guy who worked at the local 7/11 Portland MI came to our careers class to discuss his film career, which as far as I knew consisted of painting Jason and Freddy in the 7/11 window. Well he told us about getting to visit the set of a low budget horror movie on the day that they shot the scene of a flying eyeball which landed in the mouth of a (future soap opera actress)girl. Now this guy wasn't very reliable(I happen to know he told a girl he had stomach cancer to get laid)but he also showed us a short really cool short Indy Jones spoof from the same director(wouldn't you love to see that)which lent creedance to his story. Imagine my surprise when I put all these pieces together to realize that he was talking about the classic Evil Dead 2 from Sam(Xena,darkman,herc,thegift,spiderman)Raimi.I showed my son ED2 today and can't wait to show him Army of Darkness which I think he'll like even more. And he was really impressed that the wrestling announcer in spidey was Ash.