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ROB TAPPERT (1)
SAM RAIMI (2)
SARAH BERRY (1)
SCOTT SPIEGEL (2)
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Dir. Sam Raimi, 1987. Starring: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Ted Raimi. Horror.
Bold as it is to say, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn is my favorite movie of all time. For me, it teeters in competition with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And to be clear, just because it happens to be my favorite movie doesn't mean that I think it's the best acted, best scripted, best directed movie ever. (Although the directing is top-notch. More on that in a bit.) Movies are entertainment; their sole purpose is to entertain us. So for me personally, in terms of sheer entertainment value, I find nothing more entertaining than Sam Raimi's sequel to his own break out independent hit, The Evil Dead.
The first Evil Dead was the culmination of years and years of Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Rob Tappert honing their filmmaking skills by cranking out numerous short films together in school. Pooling together a budget from investors primarily consisting of dentists, they managed to make a little indie movie touted as "the most grueling experience ever!" An endorsement from Stephen King early on solidified The Evil Dead's cult status. So several years later, after Raimi and the Coen Brothers had a creatively unsuccessful studio experience making the feature Crimewave, Raimi went back to the ol' cabin and decided to sequelize his big break out movie with Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn.
Rob Galluzzo
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