Imaginative low budget comedy horror

Rating: 5/10 (13 October 2018)

A consistently lively, ghoulish horror film with plenty of slapstick comedy and entertaining special effects. "Evil Dead" films have never been particularly scary. It's more about black humour, which naturally arises from horrific events taken to extremes, and it does it well. The film has higher production values than the previous installment and this time we get a creditable performance from Bruce Campbell, who is riveting in is over-expression and camped up characterisation. There really is not much story to tell and some sequences rest on comic value entirely. It's a rampant film, non-stop action and you'll never forget it once you've seen it.