YAY. Finally some good films, I think Evil Dead I & II are terrific horror milestones and one of the very few films that both pass off to be hilariously funny as well as quite scary, with some fantastic sequences of squishy gore which look fantastic and have a certain physicality and is better compared to CGI monsters waving their pixels around. Bruce Campbell is a god and in the second film he really comes into his own proving he is a fantastic physical performer who really enjoys throwing himself around the set, Raimi directs with a verve and a certain style which is fresh and original compared to the other slasher horror that came out in the 80s which was rehashed and boring and failed to bring life to what was now a dying form, it took Raimi and Co. to really brighten up that period of cinema (even though it was banned and cut in cinemas). And the best thing about it, all of them are 80 minutes long and always get off the ground running and straight into the action, giving us the zombies, the effects, the crashing around of the set etc. They are exciting, disgusting, funny and beautiful all roled into one, the first two films are the best things Sam Raimi EVER did.
After he brought that wierd, quirky and interesting style to films such as Spider-Man, Darkman and The Quick and the Dead as well as A Simple Plan, he is a fantastic filmmaker who can blend themselves into any genre and do a successful job. Its funny also the only film I do not like of his is Army of Darkness and Spider-Man 3, both threequels and both over extend themselves but out of all the work he has produced which is fantastic they are just blemishes on a fantastic career.
For those who have no idea who he is, he is sort of like Terry Gilliam mixed with the Coen Brothers, which is only the highest compliment.
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