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Evil Dead II is not a movie. Evil Dead II is an experience. The most unpredictable 84 minutes in movie history.
Evil Dead II is the story of a man named Ashley J. Williams. A guy with a girl's name who replaces his own hand with a chainsaw (which he can somehow start with his teeth) and fights "Deadites" who have the power to kill, possess, and tree rape.
While the first is undoubtedly a Quez Classic on its own, the sequel/remake is on another level. Never has a film series directed by the same person strayed so far from the original that it actually needs a recap of the last movie so events and characters can be changed so drastically. Three characters from the first are completely erased. A rickety wooden bridge barely hanging over a river is now a five lane highway over a cliff. Ash has somehow changed from a quiet soft hero to a chainsaw wielding bad ass with a sawed off shotgun.
With all this in mind, Evil Dead II somehow managed to become the greatest movie ever made. It's scary, hilarious, ridiculous, unpredictable, and just plain fucking awesome. If you haven't seen this movie you need to run to Best Buy, buy all 3 (Evil dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness), and get all your friends together. Because as I said before, Evil Dead II is not a movie. It's an experience.
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