Reviewed and Dead by Dawn

Rating: 7/10 (12 May 2019)

As a big fan of the original Evil Dead movie I watched it's sequel Evil Dead 2 not long after its release and while it surpassed my expectations it did so in a very different way.
While the first movie was heavy on the gore and horror with lots of blood and screams Evil Dead 2 takes a different approach toning down the Violence in favour of dark humour and story which works very well and started a trend of horror movies being funny as well as scary.
The first 20 minutes of the movie are essentially a remake of the original with Ash going to the cabin in the woods with his girlfriend Linda who then becomes possesed by a demon and Ash dismembers her after that the movie becomes more of a sequel to the first.
The Dark humour is very funny with Bruce Campbell using his own style of physical comedy performing all his own stunts as he slowly starts to lose his mind he goes from dancing and laughing with the furniture to strangling himself.
The gore is toned down more in this movie and in the most violent scene in the movie the blood is made green instead of red as an attempt to avoid getting an R rating which didn't work the demon possession transformations are also toned down and less graphically shown with less blood and gore effects on the body the only demon that is Scary has stopmotion animation added to it making it look more cartoonish than scary.
The sounds effects are excellent and give the movie an atmosphereic tone and when it gets to the action the effects are loud and clear like the chainsaw and the shotgun sounds.
I would recommend this movie to fans of the original Evil Dead and people who enjoy dark humour combined with horror if you have seen the original Evil Dead just remember to keep an open mind and don't go in expecting hardcore gore like the first movie.