Re: Best Evil Dead?
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ED2 just goes to new levels. It is self-conscious and campy without being completely over the top. It's scary but not preoccupied with making the viewer afraid. ED1 is an Ok movie, but ED2 takes all kinds of chances. And all of them pay off. Regardless of AoD, Raimi's direction is +EV for any movie.
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Very much agree, well said. That's what I wasn't articulate enough to say.
Any fans of Bruce Campbell, check out Bubba Ho-Tep if you have the chance. It's interesting to say the least.
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If there was ever any movie you couldn't possibly call NOT over the top, Evil Dead 2 was certainly it.
That was a big part of the fun. Don't tell me the extended sequences of Bruce fighting his own hand while it smashes plates against his head wasn't completely over the top. I thought I was going to die laughing, but hell, if that's not over the top, then Michael Jackson is both quite ordinary and obviously heterosexual. And I bet O.J. is going to catch that killer any time now!
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