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Evil Dead II (1987)

UNRATED 84 min  -  Comedy | Horror  -   13 March 1987 (USA)
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Reviews: 473 user | 189 critic | 12 from Metacritic.com

The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

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Sam Raimi
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bruce Campbell ...
Sarah Berry Sarah Berry ...
Dan Hicks ...
Kassie Wesley DePaiva ...
Bobby Joe (as Kassie Wesley)
Ted Raimi ...
Possessed Henrietta (as Theodore Raimi)
Denise Bixler Denise Bixler ...
Richard Domeier Richard Domeier ...
John Peakes John Peakes ...
Lou Hancock Lou Hancock ...
Snowy Winters Snowy Winters ...
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Sid Abrams Sid Abrams ...
Josh Becker Josh Becker ...
Scott Spiegel ...
Thomas Kidd Thomas Kidd ...
Mitch Cantor Mitch Cantor ...
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Storyline

A young man, named Ash, takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin in the woods where he plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other. Written by David Thiel <d-thiel@uiuc.edu>  

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Plot Keywords:

Cabin | Demon | Book | Book Of The Dead | Evil Dead  | See more »

Taglines:

2 Terrifying. 2 Frightening. 2 Much! See more »

Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$3,600,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$807,260 (USA) (15 March 1987) (310 Screens)

Gross:

$5,923,044 (USA) (1987)
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

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Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
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Did You Know?

Trivia

Stephen King was such a huge fan of The Evil Dead that he convinced producer Dino De Laurentiis over dinner (who was producing King's Maximum Overdrive at the time) to have his production company DEG (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group) finance Evil Dead II. See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: The rig that suspends Evil Ed in midair can be seen from the side; the overhead track that Henrietta swings from can be seen from the bottom view; when the severed hand is choking Ash, its foam thumb bends backwards. See more »

Quotes

[Ash's Hand gains a life of it's own]
Ash: Gimme back my hand... GIMME BACK MY HAND!
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Connections

Referenced in Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle (2004) See more »