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Ananimated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, \u201CSmallfoot\u201D turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti (Channing Tatum) finds something he thought didn\u2019t exist\u2014a human. News of this \u201Csmallfoot\u201D (James Corden) brings him fame and a chance with the girl of his dreams. It also throws the simple Yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in a rollicking story about friendship, courage and the joy of discovery.

With the higher-budgeted Evil Dead II, Raimi had more money to play with. Consequently, he was able to use latex applications, specially designed suits, and even some stop-motion animation in his quest to make the appearance of the "Deadites" more outlandish. Indeed, they are more convincing in Evil Dead II, but they never lose the demonic, comedic appearance that is in keeping with the overall tone of the film. Raimi's goal is to frighten us a little, not to scare us out of our wits. He wants us to be freaked out only to laugh seconds later. Similar to when Ash ends up laughing directly into the camera when many inanimate objects in the room begin to laugh and sneer at him too.

Raimi famously employed the "Shaky Cam" to depict the POV of a demonic entity moving rapidly through the woods in "The Evil Dead." Not long after, Joel Coen lifted this technique directly for his and his brother Ethan Coen's feature directorial debut on 1984's "Blood Simple" in scenes like the one above, where the wrathful Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) tries and fails to kidnap his wife Abby (Frances McDormand) from her lover's home. Yet, much like Raimi, the Coens made the "Shaky Cam" their own, using it to capture Julian and Abby's volatile emotions while heightening the intensity of their struggle - Sandy Schaffer

There\u2019s often a conundrum when writing about favorite movies especially when they're likely on a lot of lists and a lot has already been written. What else can be said about Citizen Kane or Evil Dead II? We\u2019ll start here: The fact is that when I rented this from Citizens Video in Griffith, Indiana in the summer of 1990, I had just turned 12 years old and recently attempted suicide. Anxiety and depression were far too overwhelming.

Not too long after this, a mere couple of months later, I saw another film that was a game changer that I\u2019ll write about soon as well (I\u2019ve certainly podcasted about it enough to where I even told the director that watching it saved my life). But maybe this came first for a reason. I had obviously seen several horror films by this point but nothing prepared me for what I was about to experience.

There were two movies within the early 90s that I vividly remember watching twice in a row, one was Evil Dead II, the other was Reservoir Dogs a few years later. My first viewing of Evil Dead II was late at night in the basement while my parents were restfully asleep upstairs. I couldn\u2019t believe what I was seeing. As much as I loved Bruce Campbell\u2019s performance, the effects, the gore, the comedy, the cartoonish absurdity of it all, this was the first time I stood up and said, \u201Chey how did a camera actually move like that? how did he get that kind of angle? how did the sound design get manipulated so intensely at times?\u201D

It was the first time I was questioning how a movie was put together. There\u2019s a lot to say about Raimi\u2019s influence on how I looked at film and another title of his will come up later on as well. Sure I had seen Halloween and became aware of a gliding camera\u2019s POV through the eyes of a killer but this was the first time I had seen a camera smash through doors, graze against its victims, forcefully charge at poor Ash running through the woods and so much more. I even thought to myself, \u201Cwow you can really do anything. maybe I could too.\u201D

A few years later I recruited friends for a serial killer slasher series called Blood Moon which was just an excuse to go balls-out weird. I didn\u2019t care about telling a coherent story, I just wanted to make my friends laugh and do weird things with the camera. I had friends wear a silly skeleton mask I bought at Walgreens and found different ways of killing them off. There were strange detours and montages and even my friend Denny playing his own father at one point.

That home movie wouldn\u2019t have existed if it weren\u2019t for having experienced Evil Dead II a few years ago. I have rewatched it once a year since 1990. But of course, the second viewing that happened the day after my first viewing, my mom came down and saw what I was watching. When she saw Ash being carried along by the evil force only to emerge from a puddle as a deadite, she turned it off and took it back to the video store. She had assumed I hadn\u2019t watched the whole thing yet and wanted to prevent me from seeing it all. Little did she know I watched it the night before, secretly, discreetly, with the images already implanted. I was a changed person from that point on.

\u201CSam Raimi's masterpiece never forgets to settle down and observe the silence between the sustained flourishes of exuberant chaos. Reflection is the name of the game, and its mirror visualizations begin with an odd recap of the first installment and continue until the final image of destiny being awoken through the fabrics of space and time. Sam Raimi takes the entire form of his original film and flips it until everything is upside down and spewing some kind of substance. It's a glorious subversion of the horror genre and its typical usage of tension. Most horror uses silence as a way to build suspense, but Sam Raimi uses that absence of demonic noise as a time for the audience to catch their breath.\u201D - SilentDawn

Evil Dead II is not a sequel, but a comic reinterpretation of the original story. This time it\u2019s a balls-out zombie demon movie on cocaine even if it\u2019s not reinventing the wheel with the setup. Same structure, different details: Ash (Bruce Campbell) and his girlfriend Linda (Denise Bixler, replacing actress Betsy Baker) travel to a remote cabin to spend their vacations. Ash found the Necronomicon and a tape recorder in the living room of the old cabin. Verbal enchantments occur. The POV of the Evil Dead running through the forest is activated. All hell breaks loose to where yes, Ash has to not only cut his possessed girlfriend with a chainsaw but he has to amputate his own possessed hand.

We are pummeled with swallowed eyeballs, snickering lamps, undead girlfriends, psychotic appendages, wisecracking doppelgangers, well-meaning archeologists, revenge-fueled hillbillies, a gigantic rotten apple-head demon, and geysers of red, green, yellow, and black blood. Bruce Campbell as the reluctant hero is being tortured to death like Wily Coyote or one of the Stooges but there\u2019s also a lot of terror in the midst of the laughs. Mainly due to some frightening deadite imagery but even the sense of claustrophobia is felt.

With the higher-budgeted Evil Dead II, Raimi had more money to play with. Consequently, he was able to use latex applications, specially designed suits, and even some stop-motion animation in his quest to make the appearance of the \\\"Deadites\\\" more outlandish. Indeed, they are more convincing in Evil Dead II, but they never lose the demonic, comedic appearance that is in keeping with the overall tone of the film. Raimi's goal is to frighten us a little, not to scare us out of our wits. He wants us to be freaked out only to laugh seconds later. Similar to when Ash ends up laughing directly into the camera when many inanimate objects in the room begin to laugh and sneer at him too.

When Ash cuts off his own hand after having killed his girlfriend Linda (twice) we see the reality of the desperation Ash is operating from in order to save his life. But we\u2019re also laughing at what he has to endure. This was my first realization that sometimes we need to laugh at how horrible things can be, almost as a way to cope. At the same time, this ingenious film essentially created its own genre combining horror elements with comedy in such a way that it becomes new, going to inspire so many. Not to mention the innovative, go-for-broke, let\u2019s DIY-style try anything with the handheld shaky camera even if it\u2019s dangerous. Of course, Raimi was friends with a certain pair of brothers and they learned a lot from one another.

Raimi famously employed the \\\"Shaky Cam\\\" to depict the POV of a demonic entity moving rapidly through the woods in \\\"The Evil Dead.\\\" Not long after, Joel Coen lifted this technique directly for his and his brother Ethan Coen's feature directorial debut on 1984's \\\"Blood Simple\\\" in scenes like the one above, where the wrathful Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) tries and fails to kidnap his wife Abby (Frances McDormand) from her lover's home. Yet, much like Raimi, the Coens made the \\\"Shaky Cam\\\" their own, using it to capture Julian and Abby's volatile emotions while heightening the intensity of their struggle - Sandy Schaffer

Raimi's film is quite clearly showing that it is the foolishness of man that brings forth such evil. The book of the dead is a piece of material that should be destroyed as its findings simply cause bloodshed and bring no life. Our curiosity about what\u2019s inside the book not only kills cats, but ourselves. So the professor knowing what he was reading perpetuates evil upon Ash and Linda by making a recording of the book of the dead. In this he has essentially damned anyone who accidentally listens to it and takes away the choice to read from the book or not.

In a way, we have to endure what Ash endures to get to the end of this nightmare. My mom simply didn\u2019t want me to be exposed to such vile imagery but she also had no idea that this was an over-the-top gory comedy on top of it being about the possession of demons. We\u2019ll get to The Gate at some point, but that was another gateway into horror that has similar vibes and themes only with less inventive camerawork. It\u2019s possible my mom wouldn\u2019t object to that film only because there were teenagers dealing with the madness. But one of the few times she ever said, \u201CNO you can\u2019t watch this\u201D was for Evil Dead II.

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