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Release Date: 1987

Cast: Lou Hancock, Sarah Berry, John Peakes, Kassie DePaiva, Ted Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Richard Domeier, Denise Bixler, Dan Hicks

Categories: Movies, Zombie, Cult, Horror, Splatter Film, Stop Motion, Black Comedy, Comedy

Evil Dead II (referred to in publicity materials as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn) is a 1987 horror comedy film directed by Sam Raimi. It is a retcon sequel to the 1981 film The Evil Dead. The film was written by Raimi and Scott Spiegel, produced by Rob Tapert and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams. Raimi and Spiegel wrote the script during production of Crimewave. Filming took place in Michigan and North Carolina in 1986 and the film was released in the United States on March 13, 1987. It was a minor box office success, achieving just under $6 million. As of 2006, the total US box office... MORE

Evil Dead II (referred to in publicity materials as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn) is a 1987 horror comedy film directed by Sam Raimi. It is a retcon sequel to the 1981 film The Evil Dead. The film was written by Raimi and Scott Spiegel, produced by Rob Tapert and starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams. Raimi and Spiegel wrote the script during production of Crimewave. Filming took place in Michigan and North Carolina in 1986 and the film was released in the United States on March 13, 1987. It was a minor box office success, achieving just under $6 million. As of 2006, the total US box office gross is $10.9 million. It also received critical acclaim. Observers praised Raimi for the direction and Campbell for his role in the film. Evil Dead II was eventually followed by the 1992 film Army of Darkness. Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) and his girlfriend Linda (Denise Bixler) take a romantic vacation to a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. While in the cabin, Ash plays a tape of an archeology professor (the cabin's previous inhabitant), reciting passages from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (or "Book of the Dead"), which he has discovered during an archaeological dig. The recorded LESS