Starring: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Ted Raimi Directed By: Sam Raimi Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only) Binding: DVD Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 13, 1998 Running Time: 84 minutes Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1987
DON'T BUY!!! ^ I love the movie. Its just the blu ray that sucks.It is the same thing as the 2000 version. I suggest to keep your original copy. Don't waste your money for this!
Blu-Ray Review--So, is it eye candy? No. ^ The blu-ray transfer is average at best. On a 50 inch screen its limitations are very evident. For example, the scene in the car at the beginning is very grainy and soft. This is a recurring problem, as is edge enhancement (e.g., when the demon comes for Ash towards the end). The good news is that once the blood (of many colours) starts to fly, the film becomes much more vibrant (as you would expect) to watch. Thus, reds, blacks, greens are a lot of fun in HD. Special effects are also noticeably underdone on blu-ray. One thing I did particularly enjoy was some aspects of the sound design. It often sounds like it was recorded at the bottom of a well, but one part of the film is great. Having seen the film in the theatre when first released, the zooming sound of the demon chasing Ash in the first part of the film is important for the impact it lends to that scene. In the blu-ray, it is very well done, moving around the listening room, and with a lot of nice bass extension and dynamic range (something the DVD lacks). Evil Dead II is a funhouse ride. You either love Raimi's demented sense of humour or you don't. I am an Evil Dead fan, so this is good enough for now, especially if you can pick it up at $9.99 (it was that price on Amazon, back in December 2009). If you want a reference quality copy of the film on blu-ray, this is not it.
Even Better Then The First ^ Most of the time I like the first movie more than the follow up. But I think that this movie is even better than the first. Made in 87' Ash goes back to the same cabin he was at in the first one. His girlfriend is taken away by the evil things that are in the woods. She comes back from the dead and tries to kill him. The trees come to life, His hand goes crazy and tries to kill him, There is a zombie down in the basement. There is a bunch of other scary cool things that happpen in this movie as well. If you liked the first one I really think that you will like this one. There is more humor in this one than in the first one. Which I thought was cool. Pick it up at amazon.
Better buy these horror movies: "Resident Evil", "Feast (unrated)", "Severance", "Return of the living dead V - Rave to the grave (unrated) (available in Canada)", "Black X-Mas (unrated) (the new version)", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning (unrated)", "Wrong Turn", "Wrong Turn 2 (unrated)", "Wrong Turn 3 (unrated)", "28 weeks later", "Planet Terror", "Hostel (unrated)", Hostel 2 (unrated)", "Saw IV (unrated)", "The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated)", "Hatchet (unrated)", "Halloween (the Rob Zombie version, not the boring old version)", "The Descent (Original Unrated Cut)", "See no evil", "Dawn of the dead (unrated)", "Land of the dead (unrated)"
or vampire horror movies like the Blade Trilogy or Underworld Trilogy
or Sci-Fi horror movies like the Alien Quadrilogy or Doom (unrated)
Kind regards,
Mark
Mark-Stephan Wendt (Germany)
Great movie,lousy packaging ^ I purchased this movie, one of my all time favorites, in great anticipation of adding it to my blu Ray collection. Pretty disappointed that when I received it, the packaging looked all shriveled up and worn, as if it had sat outside overnight in a rainstorm and then someone tried to salvage it with a blow drier. Kind of lousy that anyone would even try to pass this item off to someone as a "new" purchase. Extremely disappointed.
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