A Rack for Sam Raimi...

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 1999)

...to put his off-beat brand of humor on sums up Evil Dead 2. Basically it's a Bruce Campbell vehicle, as his lantern-jawed hero (is it just me, or does Campbell look like Jay Leno's brother?) stumbles through incredibly gruesome and hilarious encounters with the Deadites. Actually, ED2 does tend to drag in spots while Ash is alone in the cabin, but picks up a bit once a new batch of cannon fodder...I mean, the rest of the cast show up. Overdoes itself intentionally to excess as a parody of the blood n' gore of both the original Evil Dead and horror movies in general.