Ash finally gets into the TV station where all this began. This is the end of the first area. Continuing the Evil Deads, the second movie is what seems to always confuse everybody. I've read/heard, more than once or twice, people making up complete bollocks about the story in the movie. Many people think it's a straight sequel where Ash brings his girlfriend to the cabin because he was possessed or because he wants to end his nightmares and face his fears (people clearly mistaking it to the story of one of the games) or that he's just crazy like that. I've also heard different stories about who the other people are and different variations of the ending. In truth, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn is a remake/sequel/thingy that basically gives 'the next day' of the Evil Dead movie while creating a new start in the beginning due to Raimi selling the rights to the first movie and couldn't recap the events of the first, and there are several throwbacks to the first movie. I've heard Sam Raimi always wanted the original to be more like this, though I wouldn't know for sure. In Evil Dead 2, Ash takes his girlfriend Linda(?) to the desolate cabin for some romantic moments, but plays Knowby's tape and raises the evil that killed the Knowbys (or did it...? (another rhetorical question)). Linda is taken by demons and Ash is left alone to fight the evil that lurks everywhere in every form, even in his own hand (and we see some slapsticky action, too). Eventually Knowby's daughter and some other folks get to the cabin too and more horrory action ensues, with more people screaming and doing stupid things. Eventually the Knowby-girl and Ash with his chainsaw-arm and boomstick open a portal to get rid of the evil, but... well, watch the movie yourself. It's a great movie, one of my all-time favourites. I think it's the best of the three currently existing ones, and because the beginning recap is not a recap but a new beginning you can easily watch the movie and enjoy it near completely without having ever seen the first.

• published: 06 Dec 2008
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