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Critics Consensus: Evil Dead 2's increased special effects and slapstick-gore makes it as good -- if not better -- than the original.
Critic Consensus: Evil Dead 2's increased special effects and slapstick-gore makes it as good -- if not better -- than the original.
All Critics (56) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (1) | DVD (16)
Just when things start getting too grisly, Raimi rushes in with a hilarious, sendup joke to remind us that all this blood and guts is meant in spooky Grand Guignol fun.
Evil Dead 2 is, pardon the expression, consistently lively -- a ghoulish splatter comedy that uses wildly excessive gore to provoke the kind of shock that lies between a laugh and a scream.
Evil Dead 2's rampant inventiveness and manic energy have ensured that it will endure as a cult classic.
Good acting would not have served the material well, since it would have diluted the comedy quotient and made the campy elements seem cheap and cheesy.
A flashy good-natured display of special effects and scare tactics so extreme they can only be taken for laughs.
The pop-up humor and smirkiness suggest Raimi's aspiring to the fashionable company of the brothers Coen, though on the basis of this strained effort I'd say he's overshot the mark.
Evil Dead II is one of the strangest, funniest movies ever made-a Donald Duck cartoon set in a haunted cabin.
The film succeeds in finding the dark, twisted humor within the horror genre, and shows the audience how ridiculous some of these kills and attacks can be.
Enjoyment is the greatest of lost sensations at scary movies, and Evil Dead II endures as an obstinate token of those simpler times.
...lives up to its place as a memorably gruesome (and often very funny) splatfest.
The sequel that "The Evil Dead" needed, and in the end it manages to extend its storyline, without ruining the premise from the first film.
Campbell mugs shamelessly and clearly has a ball as scene outdoes scene in comic thrust and haphazard horror.
A very strange and gory horror, comedy. This was made quite a few years after the first but feels very similar, although the technology for the effects has greatly improved during that time, it really shows in some scenes. It has a very similar story line as well to the first, so if you liked that you should like this.
Super Reviewer
Not really a sequel but more a different remake of the first one with superior special effects and camera work, and it is definitely a lot funnier, with a more bizarre physical humor that includes a squealing possessed hand and a hysterical Bruce Campbell stealing the scene.
There are no words for how much I hate these stupid, ugly looking movies.
Pretty amazing how universally loved this film seems to be. Upon further inspection from today's point of view it's way too silly to be scary and way too gory to be taken seriously. Of course that's all intentionally so. Still, the film did not age well. It still works as a set-up for the awesome third part, but if you really measure this for coherence, character development or dialogs, there is nothing rewarding here. Instead of get a lot of plastic demons and fake blood. Entertaining, but stupid.
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