Podcast 7: Evil Dead 2

April 22, 2021 Jon S Movies, Podcasting 0 Comments
Evil Dead 2

Recorded on 4/8/2021

In this episode we review Evil Dead 2 (1987) starring Bruce Campbell. Warning: There will be SPOILERS.

The 3 Guys Podcast

Notes From The Show

  • Quick Synopsis

  • Released: March 13, 1987

    Directors: Sam Raimi

    Writers: Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel

    Stars:  Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley, Richard Domeie

    Plot: Ash Williams and his girlfriend decide to take a romantic vacation at a seemly abandoned cabin the woods. While in the cabin, Ash plays a tape of archaeologist Raymond Knowby, the cabin’s previous inhabitant, reciting passages from the Book of the Dead, Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. The recorded incantation unleashes an evil force that kills and later possesses Linda, turning her into a “deadite”. Ash is then forced to decapitate his girlfriend, fight his own hand and deal with the thing in the basement in order to defeat the evil unleashed.

    How did this movie do:
    Budget: $3.5 million
    Box office: $10.9 million

  • Notes

  • Remake + Sequel = Requel

    • Why did they have to “remake” the movie?
      • They didn’t have the rights to original footage, so they had to reshoot it.

    Thank you Steven King

    • Without King there would be no Evil Dead 2

    • King was a big fan on the original movie

    • He convinced Dino De Laurentiis to back the movie

    • He also helped raise money to make the film

  • Trivia

    • The zombified Henrietta was actually played by Sam Raimi’s little brother, Ted Raimi.

    • In a visual pun, one of the books on the can that traps Ash’s possessed hand is Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms”.

    • Bruce Campbell completely improvised the scene where he fights his possessed hand in the kitchen of the cabin. Sam Raimi praised his performance and used the first take for the film.

    • Shot in the small North Carolina town of Wadesboro which had seen a much larger film unit two years earlier when Steven Spielberg shot The Color Purple (1985) there.

    • Ash’s car is a 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale. Also dubbed the “Classic”, the car was originally bought brand new by Sam Raimi’s father in 1973. The Delta 88 has become Sam’s trademark and has appeared in almost every film of Sam Raimi’s professional career.

    • The Plot for the 2nd movie was original the same as Army of Darkness.

    • Production tried different colors of blood to avoid an X rating. It didn’t work so they went with no rating (unrated).

    • Raimi and Campbell have been close friends since high school, and they used to make super-8 movies together. The only reason that Campbell ever appeared on-camera — leading up to his starring role in The Evil Dead franchise — is that he was appointed the actor of the group in high school, simply because he was the one who attracted the girls’ attention. He had the “it” factor.

    • In the last scene, after Ash has traveled back in time, a knight lifts his visor and shouts, “Hail he who has come from the skies to deliver us from the terrors of the Deadites.” This knight is Sam Raimi, the director. The knight to his left is his brother Ted Raimi.

Released: March 13, 1987

Directors: Sam Raimi

Writers: Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel

Stars:  Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley, Richard Domeie

Plot: Ash Williams and his girlfriend decide to take a romantic vacation at a seemly abandoned cabin the woods. While in the cabin, Ash plays a tape of archaeologist Raymond Knowby, the cabin’s previous inhabitant, reciting passages from the Book of the Dead, Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. The recorded incantation unleashes an evil force that kills and later possesses Linda, turning her into a “deadite”. Ash is then forced to decapitate his girlfriend, fight his own hand and deal with the thing in the basement in order to defeat the evil unleashed.

How did this movie do:
Budget: $3.5 million
Box office: $10.9 million

Remake + Sequel = Requel

  • Why did they have to “remake” the movie?
    • They didn’t have the rights to original footage, so they had to reshoot it.

Thank you Steven King

  • Without King there would be no Evil Dead 2

  • King was a big fan on the original movie

  • He convinced Dino De Laurentiis to back the movie

  • He also helped raise money to make the film
  • The zombified Henrietta was actually played by Sam Raimi’s little brother, Ted Raimi.

  • In a visual pun, one of the books on the can that traps Ash’s possessed hand is Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms”.

  • Bruce Campbell completely improvised the scene where he fights his possessed hand in the kitchen of the cabin. Sam Raimi praised his performance and used the first take for the film.

  • Shot in the small North Carolina town of Wadesboro which had seen a much larger film unit two years earlier when Steven Spielberg shot The Color Purple (1985) there.

  • Ash’s car is a 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale. Also dubbed the “Classic”, the car was originally bought brand new by Sam Raimi’s father in 1973. The Delta 88 has become Sam’s trademark and has appeared in almost every film of Sam Raimi’s professional career.

  • The Plot for the 2nd movie was original the same as Army of Darkness.

  • Production tried different colors of blood to avoid an X rating. It didn’t work so they went with no rating (unrated).

  • Raimi and Campbell have been close friends since high school, and they used to make super-8 movies together. The only reason that Campbell ever appeared on-camera — leading up to his starring role in The Evil Dead franchise — is that he was appointed the actor of the group in high school, simply because he was the one who attracted the girls’ attention. He had the “it” factor.

  • In the last scene, after Ash has traveled back in time, a knight lifts his visor and shouts, “Hail he who has come from the skies to deliver us from the terrors of the Deadites.” This knight is Sam Raimi, the director. The knight to his left is his brother Ted Raimi.

The 3 Guys Rating

1.8/5

About The Movie From IMDB

Evil Dead II (1987) Comedy, Horror | 84min | 13 March 1987 (USA) 7.8
Director: Sam RaimiWriter: Sam Raimi, Scott SpiegelStars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan HicksSummary: Ashley Williams travels to a secluded cabin in the woods with his girlfriend Linda where they find a tape recording of a professor and a book of evil. This unleashes a bunch of evil spirits that constantly terrorize Ash. Meanwhile a journalist comes to the area to study the book of evil. Ash and her end up having to survive this swarm of evil until morning comes.

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Cast

Bruce Campbell
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Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams
Sarah Berry
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Annie Knowby
Dan Hicks
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Jake
Kassie Wesley DePaiva
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Bobby Joe (as Kassie Wesley)
Ted Raimi
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Possessed Henrietta (as Theodore Raimi)
Denise Bixler
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Linda
Richard Domeier
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Ed Getley
John Peakes
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Professor Raymond Knowby
Lou Hancock
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Henrietta Knowby
Snowy Winters
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Dancer
Sol Abrams
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Fake Shemp (as Sid Abrams)
Josh Becker
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Fake Shemp
Scott Spiegel
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Fake Shemp
Thomas Kidd
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Fake Shemp
Mitch Cantor
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Fake Shemp

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Countries: USALanguages: English, LatinBudget: $3,600,000 (estimated)
Source: imdb.com

Quotes From The Movie

7.8
Evil Dead II (1987) 84min | Comedy, Horror | 13 March 1987 (USA)
Director: Sam RaimiWriter: Sam Raimi, Scott SpiegelStars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Summary: The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Countries: USALanguages: English, Latin
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Quotes

Henrietta: I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul!

Ash: [aims shotgun at Henrietta's face] Swallow this.

Ash: Workshed.

Ash: [for no apparent reason] ... Groovy.

[upon gaining the chainsaw in place of his lost right hand]

Ash: Groovy.

Ash: [talking to mirror] I'm fine... I'm fine...

[Mirror Ash jumps out of the mirror and grabs Ash]

Mirror Ash: I don't think so. We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound "fine"?

Ash: Hey, what do you say we have some champagne, huh, baby?

Linda: Sure.

Ash: After all, I'm a man and you're a woman... at least last time I checked. Huh huh.

Annie: [Looking at a picture in the Necronomicon of Ash himself] In 1300 AD they called this man the uh, 'hero from the sky'. He was prophesied to have destroyed the evil.

Ash: He didn't do a very good job...

Ash: [to his freshly sawn-off possessed hand] Here's your new home.

[Ash places a bucket and a bunch of books on it to trap the hand, the top book reads "A Farewell to Arms"]

[Ash grabs a chainsaw]

Ash: That's right... who's laughing now... who's laughing *now*?

Bobbie Joe: You're holding my hand too tight.

Jake: Baby, I ain't holding your hand!

Annie: The first passage will allow the demon to manifest itself in the flesh.

Ash: Why the hell would we want to do that?

Henrietta: Someone's in my fruit cellar! Someone with a fresh soooul!

Ash: [after his hand is cut off] You bastards... you dirty bastards!

Ash: You're goin' down. Chainsaw.

[Ash's hand gains a life of its own]

Ash: Gimme back my hand... GIMME BACK MY HAND!

Ash: [being sucked in a vortex] For God's sake! How do you stop it?

Ash: [having just gotten hit in the face with a gusher of blood that turns to black goo] Old double-barrel here, blow your butts to Kingdom Come!

[staggers backward, voice drops]

Ash: See if we don't!

Ash: [as all the knights start hailing him] No. Nooo, Noooo... noooo! NOOOOOO!

Ash: Got you, didn't I, you little sucker!

Linda: Even now we have your darling Linda's soul, as she suffers in torment!

Ash: You're going DOWN!

Ed Getley: We are the things that were and shall be again! Ahahahaha! Spirits of the book! We want what is yours! LIFE! Dead by dawn! Dead by dawn!

Possessed Henrietta: Dead by dawn! Dead by dawn!

Ash: Then let's head on down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch.

Ash: You did it kid...

Bobbie Joe: [pointing to an *empty* room] It's in there...

Ash: We'll all go in together.

Jake: Hell no! You're the curious one!

Linda: [the demon has possessed Linda] Yes! Your love was a lie! And now she burns in hell!

Narrator: Legend has it it was written by the dark ones. Necronomicon Ex Mortis. Roughly translated - Book of the dead. The book served as a passageway to the evil worlds beyond. It was written long ago, when the seas ran red of blood. It was this blood that was used to ink the book. In the year 1300 AD, the book dissapeared.

Ash: [as his evil sawn-off hand gives him the finger] Son of a...!

Ash: [to Henrietta] Let's go.

Ash: There's something out there. That... that witch in the cellar is only part of it. It lives... out in those woods, in the dark... something... something that's come back from the dead.

Bobbie Joe: I hope you rot down there!

[Ash is trapped in the cellar with Henrietta walking towards him]

Ash: Open the door. There's something down here!

Annie: Open it. Quickly!

Jake: It's a trick!

Professor Raymond Knowby: Recite the passages... dispel the evil... save my soul... and your own minds!

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