Too Scary; Didn't Watch - EVIL DEAD 2 (Vault Episode)

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

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This is a HeadGum Podcast. This episode was originally recorded and released in June of 2022 on our Patreon. If you would like access to additional bonus episodes, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com slash TSDW podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, horror movie recap podcast bonus episode for june for the birth of our queen and no i'm not talking about tony collette i'm talking about sam smart the true queen the first queen queen a necessary clarification we do have two queens we have we can have as many queens as we want to excuse you for limiting our royalty um wow here we are here we are oh my god

you guys we're recording at a different time than usual and i gotta say hard to tell i'm being exactly the same there's a bit of a different vibe it's uh it's an evening recording henley and i are drinking some alcoholic beverages if you can believe it. Yes, you guys. I need to warn everyone. I haven't had dinner and I have had two drinks. So it's that evening energy, baby. We'll see what happens.

It's going to be hereditary all over again. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. And that just makes me want to add that like, I'm only not because I had too much this weekend. And so it's not that I'm like not fun in case any, not the people who don't drink are fun.

They are. But I just want people to know that it's like, I wish I was, you know what I mean? It's important. It's important to take some time off every now and again. I'm taking some time. I'm taking some time off right now. I'm taking time

off tonight is time off for me. That's very good for your body. Also, when you have been hungover recently, the last thing you want to do is drink. Yeah, truly. It doesn't even know. It does sound good to me, but it doesn't. But I couldn't bring it to my lips. You know what I mean? Like the thought is good, but I know if I went to do it,

I'd be like, no, no, no. But sometimes it takes even less than like 12 hours like you wake up hungoverover and then by 6 p.m be like i guess a drink could be good i don't think that's good wait you know what that reminds me of sometimes anytime i've been hungover you've been like have a michelada and i do not want to have a michelada when i'm hungover but i saw on instagram they fucking targeted me with a Michelada t-shirt and they meant it for me. Spoiler alert. I'm definitely going to buy it for you next

year for your birthday. I can't wait. You gotta wait another year. A full calendar year for your Michelada t-shirt. Start out the planning. It's actually really cute. I bet. Honestly honestly though as soon as you said that i was like my mitchellada though like that oh my god emily do you want to pause you want to go

make yourself a mitchellada i don't i don't the combo of beer and tomato juice would would just absolutely be yeah that's terrible for someone that's been struggling with some heartburn it can't really get much worse than a mada, I guess, or a Bloody Mary. Either way, anything spicy and alcohol. Spicy, tomato juice. Briny. Those are all the things I love. Oh, yeah.

Everything you said just made my mouth water. It's also very hot in Los Angeles right now. So I've got a couple of fans on. I hope the noise is OK. It is. I can't hear it at all. Is it hot in New York right now. So I've got a couple of fans on. I hope the noise is okay. It is. I can't hear it at all. Is it hot in New York, Henley? It's not too hot, but it's hot in this room because I closed all my windows for noise reasons. But it is hot in this room currently. New York City noise. Emily, did you know I just looked at the weather app and there is a 50% chance of rain tomorrow and the

next day. Oh my God. Absolutely stunned. I did not know that. And you know, it's crazy. I love to check weather apps. And you know what I love? I love the hour by hour. And sometimes they'll give you like a 15 minute by 15 minute just to tempt you. They're like, if you pay for premium, you can get this all the time. and it almost works on me because i love i love knowing what the weather's gonna be i love knowing i i i love knowing it and so i almost always know when it's going when it's forecasted to maybe rain and you know what sammy i have not even checked it today because i keep being like well it's just gonna be hot that would be sensational if it rains tomorrow i I know. I would love it because I also have to go into work tomorrow.

And I like when it rains when I'm at work because it makes everything feel kind of chill. Cozy. Yeah. And it's like, well, I'd be inside anyway, you know? Well, you need to move to New York because on the weather app, that's just like the standard weather app that you have on all iPhones. You have a thing where you can check where it will notify you if it's going to rain or currently raining. So it will pop up and it'll be like rain sometime between 913 and 917 p.m.

And it'll tell you like very specific time windows when it's going to rain. I love that. I love pulling up that radar and watching it move and seeing like when is the rain going to be over? Where are my houses? I love pulling up that radar and watching it move and seeing like, when is the rain going to be over? Where are my houses? I love that. Is it? And especially when it's like when you get that dark one and you're like, well, that's stormy. Predicting the weather is so crazy. It's so crazy that humans have been able to do so much.

Can you imagine being like early days, just mapping the stars, too? That's one that always blows my mind. How did anybody ever become an astronomer? Like early days, just mapping the stars, too. That's one that always blows my mind. That's really wild, yeah. How did anybody ever become an astronomer? This is sort of different, but a thing I think about, too, is like when the moon used to provide light. Yeah. Wow. Because if you go somewhere really dark.

Pre-electricity days. Yes, if you go somewhere dark and there's a full moon, it is actually quite bright. Like in Joshua Tree, one time I went for a meteor shower and there was like an a full moon it is actually quite bright like in joshua tree one time i went for a meteor shower and there was like an almost full moon you couldn't see shit because the moon was too bright and they're like shadows full shadows everywhere it like casts light yeah it's amazing fucking crazy man crazy man crazy man you know what else is crazy like truly thank you this is a bonus episode which means that it's going out to our patrons who i i am so grateful for and i love so much and it's like they want i just sat here and said the stupidest shit that just came into my brain

and people want to listen to it and that's that's really nice it's just nice people are just being nice they're just being nice they're just being nice to me and sometimes i catch myself just being like what are you saying on this podcast what are you saying why are you saying these why do you like how rude of you to expect other people to have to sit through these things that you're saying how presumptuous that's of hype felt just now talking about the moon here's the thing though emily is that it's me and sammy more than anyone else that is sitting through this gorgeous summary of the moon casting light thank you it was sort of like poetry um not more than anyone else i didn't mean it like we're more important more that like we're you're here every second you're here in real time we're here live

every second of it maybe other people do too that's really nice that's really and you're like you can't turn me off the only way to do that would be like shut up and that would be so crazy that'd be so mean it would be be mean. Can you imagine? No. Should I've, you know, I feel like we've talked about it before, but, you know, we should revisit like a public feud. It could be fun. Just having one, just creating one. Can it be passive aggressive through like Instagram stories? Like I'm not speaking to Henley right now and I'll tag you in it.

Well, that's too aggressive. Like every bachelor, bachelorette breakup where they post mutual statements, typed text in their Instagram stories. Are you referring to Katie and John? Today I am referring to Katie and John. But as of a few days ago, I also could be referring

to Michelle and Nate. That's very true. And at any time you could be referring to any of them, to be completely honest. It's true. Like 99% of them haven't stayed together, right? Correct. That's probably a very high percentage. It's not very high a way to meet a

life partner. It's not a way to meet a life partner. But it's a good way to get really famous. Yes. It's a great way to get sponsorships. God, it's a good way to get sponsorships. But this is a delayed birthday episode for me. We were going to record

something for the first half of this month and we were all together in person and a recording that we did got ruined. It did. First one we've lost in a while. In a long time, yeah. I just forgot how to do it. And also it was a fluke.

It was a fluke. It was technical difficulties. Sammy, it had nothing to do with you. It had nothing to do with you. You did everything right. It was a real IT crowd, have you tried turning it off and on again situation. I just had to restart my computer and then everything worked again fine, but it was too late at that point.

Well, it's one of those things with the with the recordings they don't it doesn't always tell you as it's happening when it's not when it's being glitchy and then you finish and then it goes oh by the way by the way this didn't work and it's like yeah i've been sitting here for an hour why didn't you tell me yeah let's call them out audacity audacity that's on you that's on you how dare you you need to fix that problem because it is really the it is really the reason of all of our lost episodes that's true it's also the reason of all of our used episodes that's true it's it's got a pretty good batting average i feel like 99 just in case audacity like comes after us i you know i don't i don't want them to

just in case audacity like comes after us i you know i don't i don't want them to come after us audacity that just made me think about like whoever's running audacity who is that listens to every podcast for anybody saying something they take it away take it off your computer and you can't use it i do want them to fix that problem though the dropouts need to be notified we need to be notified of the dropouts earlier Anyways this is another part Where it's like people are listening And it's crazy Honestly

It's the sort of thing that we simply must stop Thinking about because I will say this After every sentence I speak for the next However long this takes if I start to think about it Too much but Sort of a fun sort of a fun sort of a fun episode in that um we all watched the movie because it's sammy's birthday episode and she said here's what i want you guys to do and you cannot say no to a birthday girl this is

the one where we all know to be true so we all three of us independently watched this movie. I lulled. I was laughing out loud. I'm very excited to hear. Okay. Yeah. This week's bonus episode movie is Evil Dead 2. Directed by Sam Raimi.

Written by Sam Rabian. Scott Spiegel. Starring Bruce Campbell, Sarah Barry, Dan Hicks, Cassie Wesley, and Richard Daumier. dead 2 directed by sam ramey written by sam rabian scott spiegel starring bruce campbell sarah berry dan hicks cassie wesley and richard domier uh and yeah tell me your guys's initial thoughts i'm i it was all i could think about while i was watching it was like what are emily and henley thinking about at every every scene every moment i was just thinking about you guys okay at first i was initially extremely confused because i didn't understand what the concept of the movie was which later i after doing a little digging i was able to

grasp i paused it and looked it up because i was certain i was i had somehow accidentally started evil dead which i haven't heard about in a while but it was one of our first episodes but i was like this wait what he's not he already was he what yeah he already did all the same reactions i okay for the record i've never seen evil dead too so i also like had no idea and yeah had the exact same experience where i was like wait what the fuck are they just pretending evil dead one didn't happen yeah i was like I was like, is Ash just like an idiot or what? No, it is. So it's like a remake slash sequel slash reimagining. A requel, a requel.

A requel, the original requel. So I read that they weren't able to get the rights somehow for the original film. It's so crazy. They just like redid it in order to explain why Ash is there. But also changed it enough for it to feel very confusing. Like they cut most of the characters out. So it's just Ash and Linda.

Yep. Well, it's just weird because it's like just start the movie where Evil Dead ends. Like you don't need to remind us, like, why they're in the cabin. Yeah, I think it's basically like Sam Raimi wanted to make Army of Darkness, Evil Dead 3, and Evil Dead 1 did not end in a way that made that possible. And so this movie is a bridge between the two that is just incredibly confusing but also if you let all of that go very fun i think if maybe we hadn't if we hadn't talked about evil dead we would have probably all been fine you know like i think you can start here and it's

probably less confusing yes i think that almost made it more interesting to me, though, because I was just like, what is happening? Why are they making this choice? And that kind of made it more engaging in a way. And then honestly, I mean, we'll get into the recap, but it just made me laugh. Like it was so funny, silly, wild, so many places. And that was something that Stephen, So many places. And that was something that Stephen, our guest who did Evil Dead One and one of our first episodes talked about. And, you know, I didn't believe him, of course. But now that I have spent three years listening to horror movies, I am in a place where I was able to appreciate how absurd it was and completely get it. I mean, I don't necessarily get it completely, but I was laughing. And that was a big step for me. Okay, good.

That makes me very happy. This is a big one. A big one in terms... Like, we've had movies described to us before where people doing the recaps, you included, Sandy, have said, like, it's worse to hear this than to see it. Sometimes that's not true.

There are some things... Yes, this is a perfect one for that. There are some things that, like, I absolutely don't ever want to lay eyes on. Like I'm certain for me at least I'm certain that watching Hereditary would be worse than hearing about it even though hearing about it was pretty bad. But this I remember that being said about Evil Dead

one is like it's not actually like you could watch this and not believing it because it sounded horrifying because you describe things like you know chopping like decapitating somebody with an axe that sounds awful and i could picture it in my head as very awful but then the way they do it in this movie is actually so incredibly light yeah so that was interesting to see good okay i'm glad because I, you know, it is, it's basically wall-to-wall gore in a way, but it is just done in such, it's, the tone is comedic. I would say like there are jokes throughout and it just, you know, made in the 80s has, it's not hyper-realistic. realistic that's the thing too is that like i i feel like there's and they i know there's been remakes like more modern remakes of evil dead or there's a show or something or both yeah there's a uh yeah both i think the the remake is with jane levy directed by freddie alvarez who did

oh don't breathe which we which we just did um well i because i feel like there's a universe where there is a version of this movie that even though it is still silly and campy, I would not want to see. Because I think this one, you know, I the chainsaw. I hate who I hate a chainsaw. You guys know I hate a chainsaw. They never show the chainsaw actually entering a body in a way that is like upsetting to see. And I could imagine a remake having a lot of fun with showing that kind of stuff and so that was also a big relief for me is like all the moments where i was like

oh no i can't watch this they didn't make me they would cut away to shadow or like only show the other side of it or yeah yeah do something that would make it manageable for me. And we'll get to this, but one of the trivia is that the producers insisted upon using different colors of blood to avoid an X rating. I had a feeling that was, yeah, avoiding a rating situation. So

that's part of it, I think, is that there's one point where it's all green blood. Yeah, one's blue, one's... Even the red blood looks fake. It looks really bright red. Okay, so it has a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. This is widely regarded

as one of the best sequels of all time. This movie is basically The Godfather 2. Just saying. I dare you to find a list that doesn't include Evil Dead 2 on best sequels of all times it's in there uh 72 on metacritic 7.7 on imdb and i ate a weed gummy before i watched it which was my first time dabbling back this is sort of a real party episode my first time eating an edible since accidentally eating 25 milligrams.

That was too many. That was too many milligrams. That was really too many. This time I went 2.5, a tenth. A tenth. And I actually really didn't even feel it. Yeah, 2.5 is light, baby, light. You know, I just didn't want to make the same mistake twice.

God, if you had made the same mistake again, I thought it had 25 milligrams. Okay, okay. Don't do 25. Don't do 25. Whatever you do, don't do 25. How did that even happen again? You misread the packaging? Yeah.

So the packaging had nutritional information that was based on serving size that I thought, I think I thought was based like on the whole cookie. And it was like serving size 50 milligrams. And I thought that meant the whole cookie is 50 milligrams. But I didn't see that the serving size is like a quarter cookie. And so I was like, I don't want to eat. It was something like that where I was like, I don't eat the whole thing. So I halved.

You were trying to do less. I was trying to doing way more a lot more yeah terrifying but it's like that's on them because a cookie is a one serving situation right but i guess with weed it's maybe they just have different ways of any cookies experienced you make smaller cookies. Don't make me. I bet on the front of that packaging, it said like 100 milligrams or however many milligrams the cookie was. It probably said on the front. Yeah, it probably did.

But you're just being too smart for your own goddamn good. You're trying to do math. I was like doing math on the back. How do I protect myself? Yeah, it backfired.ired okay should we do trivia now or do we watch the trailer now i always forget what what we do first yeah let's see let's hear some trivia okay okay i was tasked with doing the trivia this week it's a lot of pressure but i'll try to follow through i believe in you okay so first up bruce Bruce Campbell's favorite film of the trilogy, after everything we've said, makes a lot of sense.

Yep. Okay, this next trivia I'm going to tell you guys feels like it can't be real. Oh, I love woes. Nonetheless, it was in the early 80s along with joel cohen and francis mcdormand yes i wrote that down as house i wrote that down as well because i was just looking at the wikipedia if it says it on imdb and wikipedia it's gotta be true then it's true two user sourced things um but yeah it said that uh spiegel and ramey the uh i mean scott spiegel's the other writer wrote it in the house in silver lake los angeles where they were living with the coen brothers as well as francis mcdormand

kathy bates and holly hunter kathy Bates? Like, what? Also, that's just too many people in a house. That's too many people in a house. It's better to have been in a fucking big house. Oh, I wish I could just list off the top of my head all the other weird combos that have existed because this has happened in moments in time. I know that Robert Pattinson

had one. What was Robert Pattinson's? Didn't, or no, Harry Styles. Harry Styles has James Corden, yeah. Wait, what? I think Robert Pattinson had one't or no Harry Styles James Corden yeah wait what I think Robert Pattinson had one too I think he lived with Sam Clayton and some other people yeah that is true I am I am interested

in to know all of the celebrity roommates that have ever been well obviously a big one is Matt Damon and Ben Affleck I mean we all know that combo but it is weird to think that they were like best friends for so long and then George Clooney lived with fuck I can never remember that guy's name he was on Broadway

dark hair kind of like funny was in Mousetrap Broadway is not a way to get me to know anything I'm sorry and then so many people in the Hollywood Hills who are artists in like the 70s. Anyway, that's not helpful. Very fun.

Very fun. Crazy to think about. OK, so then this is relevant to us. Sam Raimi credits Stephen King for making this sequel happen. He was responsible for acquiring the money. Raimi wasn't able to drum it up himself. Stephen King was a huge, huge, huge fan. And apparently he made a few calls and convinced financiers.

How do you say that word? Financiers. Financiers. Financiers. I get nervous every time because it's also a little. Financiers Financiers I get nervous every time because it's also a little Financiers A little Danish like little treat Financiers

And every time I order one I'm like Anytime I have to order anything In an accent It's a very stressful time I really get stressed about the The like pronunciations that you know have been bastardized But saying it right makes you Seem like such you say do you guys say gyro or hero i say euro i think euro are we talking gyro yeah i think i say euro like like there is a g there but it's

like really soft you're a hero i think i say i think I say it because I don't want them to laugh at me for trying to say something else. There's no winning. There's no winning. I don't know that I've ever ordered one out loud. Yeah, I don't think I have either. Just write it down. But you know what I can't get myself to do? I can't bring myself to say bruschetta. I can't do it.

Oh. I can't. I simply can't. I know that it is wrong to say bruschetta. I know that it's wrong. Oh, I always say bruschetta. But it doesn that it is wrong to say bruschetta I know that it's wrong oh I always say but it doesn't feel as wrong as saying bruschetta you know what I mean that one feels wrong yeah like wrong like like on a human level you know not incorrect but like wrong yeah I agree um okay Bruce Campbell completely improvised the scene where he fights his possessed hand in the kitchen of the cabin that's a great scene sam ramey praised his performance it was apparently the first take of the scene he does a great job in this movie he's really like he's so caring this

whole movie on his shoulders and and the tone of the movie is like all on him and he i know we we gave him a lot of shit in Evil Dead 1. I think that was probably on me, but I felt he redeemed himself. But then we universally agreed he was hot, though, I think. Oh, he is hot. I had that question. I had that written down in my notes here. Do we

all agree he's hot? I think he's hot. I think he's, yeah. Great. Unfortunately, yeah. Great, great, great. Unfortunately. It would be more fun if I didn't. But I just I simply do. And there's no unanimous. It's unanimous. OK, just a couple more.

Most of the film was shot on a set built inside the gymnasium of the Junior Falson Junior High School in Wadesboro, North Carolina. And I just think it's really funny. Can you imagine being in junior high and knowing that like one of the more popular horror movies yeah that was filmed there has been filmed in your gym that would be crazy that would be that'd be fun i'd be into that i'd be into that okay the last one evil dead 2 was very popular in turkey and istanbul and though it was played in two cinemas on the same street simultaneously it was still shown for over two months its success led to the

re-release of its predecessor The Evil Dead in 1990 oh no just the regular release because that had been denied a release until then that's cool I want to go to Istanbul I've heard it's really good. I do, too.

I've heard it's really cool. And Istanbul's supposed to be really cool. And also, there's a lot of street cats. Ooh. Yeah. I love street cats. Oh, no. This was Morocco, not Istanbul.

But I'm going to tell the story because it's a great story, which is that when they were filming John Wick Chapter 3, and there's that scene with the dog fight with... Halle Berry. Halle Berry. Oh, my God. I was like, Heidi. That's not right. That's not right. Heidi uh Halle Berry Halle Berry oh my god I was like Heidi that's not right that's not right Heidi Berry um Heidi Berry Heidi Berry um with the dogs they have dogs she has dogs yep anyway uh it was really hard for them to film that sequence because there were so many street cats and the like well very well trained show dogs kept getting distracted by all these street cats and like chasing the street cats, which I just love that all these cats were just like fucking everywhere. They couldn't film because of all the cats.

That's so funny. I would just die to be on that set that day for many reasons, for a lot of reasons. OK, should we should we watch this trailer yes four years ago in this quiet forest, in this cozy cabin, something happened. Something so frightening. Something so deadly. Something so evil. We prayed it wouldn never happen again.

Now, from the fear of evil dead, comes Evil Dead 2. Oh, my God! Swallow your soul! Evil Dead 2 Dead by Dawn I didn't know this had a subtitle Oh yeah yeah Dead by Dawn This would be such a fun one to see

At like a midnight screening or something Or like a drive-in Or like Cinespia This would be a fun one. It would. I would even, I would even go to that. Wait,

I just want to tell you guys how I watched it. I watched it. Sorry, I just have to say, tell us Henley. I watched it in the shower. The movie? You always have your phone in the shower, which makes me nervous.

You watched the whole movie from the shower? No, no, no. A 90-minute shower. Not the whole thing. No, I was visiting my parents in Maryland, so I put my laptop on the toilet and then Classic. Took like a 25-minute shower, which is really not environmentally friendly. Um,

obviously I didn't watch the whole thing in the shower, but I took a nice long, I doubt it was even 25 minutes, 15 minutes. Probably a little better in Maryland. It's California that we're struggling. We have Maryland also having a shortage. We have our own,

I don't know whether that makes a difference, but my parents have their own well. I think it does make a difference. Yeah. So 25 minutes. Easy. Anyway, I did watch it in the shower, which also kind of like made it fun, too, in a way. Yeah. I mean, that was brave.

Honestly, I don't like to be spooked in the shower. I don't like to be spooked in the shower. Personally, I find it to be somewhat spooked in the shower. I don't like to be spooked in the shower. Personally. I find it to be somewhat of a scary place sometimes. And also, as you know, it's my favorite place on Earth. But like, the second I get a little scared, it's like, oh, this would be a bad time for someone to come. This would be a bad time. It would be a bad time.

It's a vulnerable time. It's a vulnerable, vulnerable place. Okay. Should we get into talking about this movie? Yes. We should. Let's do it. Hmm. Let's get into talking about this movie yes should let's do it let's get into it sorry i like really commandeered that but i needed to tell you guys that i was in the past few years i have hit a point where i only want to be wearing clothes that are comfortable it happened it happened to me but you know what I still also want to look cute. And these are two desires that are often extremely opposing. And I don't want to have to sacrifice. I want both. I

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There's not a ton of plot in this film. It's not dense. It's not dense. It's kind of just hijinks after hijinks or like scene after scene of silliness. Yep. And okay, we start with like a, it feels like a history lesson. It does. Of the Necronomicon, a voiceover, someone reminding us about the Necronomicon.

Already, I'm incredibly confused. Same. Well, this is also, I feel like this is very similar to how so many horror movies were at this time with like the omen and the exorcist like don't they both are they all like do like kind of like a history lesson of like something archaeological that exorcist opens on like an archaeological dig yeah yeah um yeah yeah for sure and i mean again my memory is not i i don't remember exactly but i think they do destroy the necronomicon in the first one as well and so there's just a few things that just get rewritten that we just gotta forget happened yeah yeah but yeah this the the voiceover We just got to forget what happened. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah,

this, the, the voiceover is just telling us again about the Necronomicon. The book of the dead has some nasty spells in there that can do some bad things and it went missing in whatever year. And, uh, and then do we come like straight up to Ash and Linda?

Ash and Linda go into the cabin. Linda also, by the way, a new actress. Not that I would have remembered her either way, but... That is interesting.

It was played by... She was played by Betsy Baker, now Denise Bixler. So just switching everything up. Just really trying to confuse us.

Yeah. Yeah, he's taking her to this cabin. But it seems like it's not his cabin and he hasn't, like, rented it. Because she's like, what if the people who own it come home? And it's not his cabin and he hasn't like rented it because she's like what if the people who own it come home and he's like no they won't. How did they

find out about it? How did they get into this cabin? They're trying to have their romantic time in this cabin. He gives her an hour or a little spyglass necklace. Which I remember we talked about a lot. Which again I was like what the fuck is happening? That I think is when I actually looked it up. So I was like, I have heard about this one.

It's a little bit different. The necklace is like the only symbol of anything. It's like all of the emotional moments revolve around this necklace in the first one. It's just like so symbolic of a life that he's fighting for. And so the necklace becomes his whole motivation in various scenes. This beautiful necklace. The writing is so funny

because I think when he gives her the necklace and then he asks if she wants to have champagne and she's like, sure. And then he says, after all, I'm a man and you're a woman. They're really having fun. They're gonna fuck. She does some ballet dancing,

which I found very interesting. Very interesting choice on her. In mine, it was like everything was also out of sync. Was that the case for you guys? Because it was only in this scene and then it synced up. But I was like, I don't know if I noticed.

So maybe not. I was really transfixed by the ballet. I was transfixed by the ballet. And she's dancing to Ash playing the piano. I mean, we shouldn't spend too much time in this opening, but it was outrageous. Ash is playing a very dramatic waltz on the piano. How do you start your weekend trips? I was going to say, you guys have never ballet danced while your boyfriend plays a dramatic waltz we walk in i say joel get on those keys and i just start

tickle those ivories it's really funny to think about emily especially because you are good at dancing you are good at dancing and joel can play those keys um he can't, but I will make him. He should learn just this song and this song only. Yeah, not dancing together. She's just dancing for him while he does his own thing. Pretty fun. And then pretty soon they find the tape recorder, right?

That's the next thing I've written down. Yeah, and he starts playing it on speaker. Which is, like a lesson we learned from again the first i'm going to stop referencing back to the first film sure yeah but it is something that we all know don't play something that sounds like ominous and maybe there's some latin words in it and it seems like it's reciting a spell type of thing probably best to just not partake i think the thing that was funniest about this scene to me is that he's listening to this recording right and it's so dramatic and he's shocked and it's about this very intense discovery this person has made that's very serious and then the thing that he's talking about is right there on the table. He's like, I've discovered the Book of the Dead.

It's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then he looks over and it's right there on the table. He just picks it up and he flips through it like it's like a casual paperback. Like he's in the line at a grocery store. Like it's like, what's this fucking sacred, very important item doing just casually on the desk? Why is it here? Anyway, that just made me laugh. That's the mystery.

What the heck is going on in this cabin? And also, like, given what we know about the previous inhabitants, like, why the fuck did Ash and Linda think it was just vacant? Yeah. Who? How do they know them? What's the connection? Where did they get this address?

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of the ground right comes out of the dirt um no she comes up to him and looks crazy and evil. Okay, you guys tell it because I don't have it written down. I think I don't have it written down either. What I remember happening is he's like looking for her in the woods. Like, Linda, Linda. And it's getting dark and he's running through the woods and he sees her and she's like, and it looks like freaky and her teeth are weird and she's like, and I think he gets

knocked out. Then when he wakes up, there's a very dramatic 360. That's a slow 360. He wakes up and he looks around and it's like slow all the way around. And then he says to himself, it's gone. The sun drove it away.

Oh, because when he wakes up and he starts turning into gross creepy but the sun shines on him and then yeah the sun oh he realizes he's normal the sun drove it away and then he tries to leave and then he realizes there's a massive cavern now or the bridge that was connecting him oh it's like wrecked in a ridiculous way. It looks like as if it was torn up from the gods. Yeah. So he can't leave. And there

was a shot in here where he flies through the woods, right? The like spirit flings him through the woods. Yeah, he definitely flies through the woods. Which was like one of my favorite shots. It's like a, almost a, like a requiem for a dream I feel like does the same thing Where the camera is mounted to the person

And it's sped up So it looks like he's flying through these trees But then he does like full loops And turns all around It's such a fun I think we're having a lot of fun With camera stuff Yeah

And the spirit too is like When the sun comes out It looks like it's the smoke There's like all this smoke and fog, it looks like it's the smoke. There's like all this smoke and fog. And it looks like it just like sucks back into the earth. And it's fun to imagine that they just like reversed footage of like smoke coming. I don't know.

It's cool. It's fun. A lot of fun. Clever cinematography. They're having a good time. And I'm having a good time. I'm also having a great time. And so then I think like darkness falls well so we get a little shot of um the professor's daughter arriving or his scientist or whoever it was

on the recording her his daughter arrives via plane and god i love the 80s where being like preppy was so in and it's's so funny. She has blonde hair, polo shirt. She has a very blonde polo donned boyfriend. And they're giving great exposition where she's hopping off of this plane. And he's like, Welcome home. Like, what'd you find? And she's like, It's great. great like i found pages from the book of the dead i can't wait to show you and it's so casual and so like affected it's so weird and just nobody behaves this way no no it was so crazy and so we get a little we get an intro for those two characters they are coming to the cabin their names are annie and ed meanwhile is this when the girlfriend comes back

i think so this is a really delightful scene we get i think like her hand comes out of the out of the dirt maybe i'm imagining. Had he already chopped her head off? I think he had. Oh, yes. He chopped her head off. That's part of the initial fight. The night before when she gets evil, he chops her head off with a shovel. One clean little swipe right off. Oh, and then he buries her.

And he buries her in the ground. And he cries. He's very sad. That's when I think the forest whips him around and knocks him out. And then he's saved by daylight very sad. And cries. That's when I think the forest whips him around and knocks him out. And then he's saved by daylight. Yep. And so now she reanimates, comes out of the dirt and finds her head and like roughly reattaches it. She does like a little dance with her head and she's like fully decomposed. Oh yeah, like rolling it around.

Even though it's been one night. But yeah, she's doing ballet. She's ballet dancing again. And she's like using herosed even though it's been one night but yeah she's doing ballet she's ballet dancing again and she's like using her head as sort of a prop it looks like weird claymation like claymation yeah and the music is um it was it's the waltz that he was playing on the piano but it's like a whistly version

so it's like a reprise incredible whistling I was I wrote it my notes it was like i'm a pretty good i'm very bad at whistling i'm pretty good whistler yeah but i don't remember the wall but it was slow it was it was really outrageous so imagine a claymation figurine with a fake head doing this jaunty dance to a whistling tune. It's very funny.

It looks a little like Nightmare Before Christmas-y. It really does. Yeah. And he's like sort of mesmerized by it. How could you not be? How could you not be? But then she pretty quickly like reaches her hands through some... He had boarded up the windows and starts...

She grabs his head, starts slamming his head over and over again into the wooden boards, trying to beat the shit out of him and kill him. And I just know eventually she gets her hands on a freaking chainsaw. And then she gets her hands on a freaking chainsaw. then she gets her hands on a freaking chainsaw at some point he like grabs her head and puts it in like a clamp oh that's what happens her head comes flying in she's she throw i think she throws her own head inside and it bites down on his hand and so with her little evil mouth she's like clamped down on his hand really hard and he can't get her head off his hand and so he's like running around and he's like clamped down on his hand really hard and he can't get her head off his hand and

so he's like running around and he's like screaming and he's trying she's just like slamming her head into things like it's a jar stuck on his hand and like bashing it around and then he remembers there's a shed with tools and so he takes her head on his hand into the tool shed and puts her head inside one of those like clamps that holds things in place and clamps it so that her head is stuck there so he's able to get his hand out and then yes he finds a chainsaw

her body gets a chainsaw her body gets a chainsaw that's right and attacks him with it and they do a little dance he's trying to get the upper hand and eventually I guess maybe because she can't see. Probably because she can't see. She eventually chainsaws herself in half.

A hot dog style, baby. Hot dog style slice. You know it's hot dog style. And takes care of herself for him. Takes care of herself. But then Ash has to take care of the head. Ash picks up the chainsaw goes to her face which turns back into normal girlfriend for a minute she's trying to plead with him and it's not working and so she gets mad she gets evil again and she goes like and like screams at him and then he goes to chainsaw her head but i was pleased we

cut away we don't we just see like shadow we don't actually see her head being chainsawed. So I was okay with it. I did write down that he wrote, he said, you're going down. So that was one line he said right before he chainsawed her head in half. You're going down. Pretty badass Ash.

And then I guess he goes back inside. And to compose himself yeah he's like pretty fucked up from what just happened understandably he's like sitting in a rocking chair and rocking back and forth and is like really not doing well does he get up and look in the mirror yeah i think he gets up the mirror the mirror he's like you're fine you're fine and then his mirror self comes out as like you just chainsawed your girlfriend like you're not fine and this part is clearly another

actor with prosthetics on his face yes for some of this like when they're actually face to face I thought it was him I didn't catch that I don't know I didn't notice I want to find out because it was definitely I mean it has to be at some point yeah I don't think they had the technology to like not make it another physical person at

some point there's a moment where i was like is this person wearing like a fake chin it just looks like really bizarre to me um that's funny in a way that was fun yeah but yeah he starts like fighting with his own mirror self and wins i guess i guess wins yeah and then something happens with the rocking chair or maybe that's later i don't remember there's all sorts of moments where they're like you know the items in the cabin sort of get possessed for a minute but then go back to not being possessed like the rocking chair is like swaying but but then it stops or like the little there's a deer head mounted on the wall that every now and again will like look at him and be creepy but then it goes back to being not creepy there's a part where all of the objects in the house at once

start like laughing laughing oh it's so fun and then he starts laughing as if he's also maybe getting possessed i feel like this is like the image that I have seen a lot from this movie of him just like unhinged, like looking into camera, basically laughing like a crazy person. It's all very fun. Well, I can't remember why this happens, but his hand, his hand somehow gets possessed. She bit him. What's the word I'm looking for infected infected she infected him no disease she passed i don't know what i was trying to say she passed along the the demon through bite bite this is the excellent hand acting that we have mentioned before where his hand now is possessed it's been infected and

is no longer acting in accordance with the rest of his body so he has a full on physical fight with the hand that is trying to murder him there's a part where the hand is smashing plates over his head and it reminded me of the invisible man

yes it starts trying to strangle him and then he like runs into the kitchen and then it, yeah, it starts smashing plates over his head and then it knocks him out. His hand like knocks him out. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he lies lying on the ground.

And so he's unconscious, but his hand, the hand is still alive and he's fallen like near a knife. And so the hand like grips the ground and pulls him forward and grips the ground and pulls him forward which is very fun trying to get to a knife he wakes up just in time gets another oh it's going for like a butcher's knife he gets a regular kitchen knife stabs his own hand which I was like

stabs his own hand to keep it in place and it's like also the hand is like making little noises on its own and like screaming and stuff. Sort of like the little alien that comes out of the stomach in Alien, the first one.

Where he goes... And it scoots across the ground. So he stabs it in place. He grabs a butcher knife. And he goes to chop his own freaking hand off. But again, we don't see it and i'm very happy about this also a pretty bold move i feel like i mean i guess i mean your hand's trying to kill you i guess what else are you gonna do but also like how do you know that it hasn't

spread further than your hand that's true i guess so you're sort of like things are bad all over the place you might as well just see to're flying by the seat of your pants. You're flying by the seat of your pants. But yeah, I mean, pretty huge move. He's not doing great mentally in this moment, I would say. So I think somewhere in here we meet,

we cut to the daughter. Wait, first, before we cut away, I just gotta say that once he gets his hand off, he traps it like underneath a suit or like a bucket or something and puts books. A bucket and some books. And puts two books on top of it. And the book on top of it is a farewell to arms, which I really appreciated that joke. It's a very funny joke.

But it scoots away. It gets, he hears like, and like looks over and the hand has managed to get away from him. So this hand is still alive. It's just no longer attached to his body. But yes, then Henley, I believe we cut away. Well, yeah, I think so. The daughter is trying to get to the cabin, though. The preppy daughter is trying to get to the cabin of Annie.

And the cavern is obviously in the way. And they stumble upon Bobby, joe and ed who are locals who are bobby joe and bobby joe and jake ed is her boyfriend oh oh whoops okay and yeah i don't know i have no idea who they are they are the most mismatched pair i have ever seen on screen. It's crazy. Not just age seems like there's a big weird age thing happening. Vibe wise incredibly different. Completely different. Style. Aesthetic.

His vibe is like house of wax like creepy truck man who's like avoid this man at all. She's like Heather's. She's like the most popular Heather. It's so weird. It's just weird but i completely agree it really threw me too and i kept thinking like is this just the 80s and how things were like why do i feel this way why am i so confused almost like they were in two different

movies yeah well but they were both in this bobby joe Jake are a pair. And I guess they're dating. I don't know. We have no backstory for them. They're definitely dating or something. Yeah. Bobby Joe! And they say that they will lead Annie and Ed to the house because they know of a trail that goes to the house. If they pay him a hundred bucks. So now they're all going to the cabin. So everyone's headed to the house. If they pay him a hundred bucks. So now they're all going to the cabin.

So everyone's headed to the cabin. And one little piece of trivia as it cuts back to Bruce Campbell, Ash now. And apparently, I didn't really notice this, honestly, when I was watching. But apparently when he's like wrapping up his stump of a hand, you can see his other hand through the stump.

Apparently it's very obvious i mean i just kept noticing how obvious it is that it's like the exact same length at the end of the stump as his other which is just his hand inside a thing so it's like it's the exact size and shape of a hand inside of a it's almost like he was flexing his hand though in the stump apparently it's really obvious like you can see his fingers like moving around it's very funny well this is i feel like a very rewatchable film so next time i see it i'll keep an eye out for that but yeah they arrive right and see ash basically looking like he's at a crime scene And Annie assumes That he has killed Her parents because this cabin

Belonged to her parents who are the who's the Whatever professor and his wife That recorded the tape recording And you know Oh well yeah when they go to come In the cabin and Ash has the place Totally like boarded up because now He's freaking out he's gotten a shotgun

From the Same place that he got the uh chainsaw and so he hears them coming someone trying to get in the house which this whole time has been an evil spirit so he shoots his shotgun at the door yep catches bobby joe in the shoulder so then they all come in mad they think he's a lunatic he get. They attack him. Jake? Jake is his name? Punches him and knocks him out. And so then they all come in. They think that Ash is a murderer and they're like...

So they just shove him in the basement? They literally just drop his body down the basement stairs in a way that I really feel like he would have died. He really tumbles down those stairs sort of headfirst onto some hard floor. Yeah. It looks bad.

It looks bad. But he doesn't die. They shove him down into the cellar and they lock the cellar door. But it's like that chain with some give. Like I feel like in the first Evil Dead 2 where they can push it up enough so you can see a little face being like hehehe evil spirit down here um but uh then

I guess they do some like research that or like look at the tapes and realize that they start playing the tape recorder and they hear her dad literally saying on it my wife is dead she got possessed by a demon I will be dead soon um and he says my wife is dead she got possessed by a demon i will be dead soon um and he says my wife is um uh like has been possessed by a demon and i buried her in the basement and he said i couldn't bring

myself to dismember the body so i put her in the yeah and down in the cell and ash is literally in the basement like are you serious like come on down here and like right on time she like reanimates i feel like and comes to life and attacks him and they won't let him out because they still don't know whether or not to trust him so there's a fight going on in the in the basement and he's begging them to let him out. And I don't know what make they eventually do change their mind. And they do let I think they see her. And they're like, oh, yeah. OK.

And they do let him out and manage to still lock her back in there. And then she turns she does kind of what Linda did before where she like turns back into normal mom and then she starts doing some real gratuitous emotional shit she's trying to get her daughter to be like I'm not a demon

remember I used to sing this song to you would a demon sing this song to you they all demon sing this what a demon sing this song to you they all give up on that act so fast though they like don't even wait to see if it's gonna work before they go like just kidding i'm like come on try but you're right she really does lay into it thick she's also like you were six months old when you took your first step so like she like recites facts from her life which i do think is quite um that's intense yeah it's really impressive for a demon um i don't know how it happens but then ed gets possessed that's the next thing i have in my notes i think she

gets yeah he i don't he just gets possessed i don't sometimes it just happens sometimes it just happens so he gets he starts to get possessed his head turns around his body all crazy the mom gets possessed again and they're trying to shut she's like crawling out of the cellar door and then so they're shutting it on her head and like trying to push the door on her head which makes one of her eyeballs pop out and it goes straight into Bobby Joe's mouth oh yes that was so crazy that was so crazy

so everybody's pretty upset we managed to shut mom back down in the cellar Ed is dunzo bunzo and everybody else is okay I think bobby joe like runs out right she leaves and she's like i'm out of here yep i think she does run into the woods and then wait okay so then i think that he kills they kill the mom and they kill ed and this is when the greens the green

blood is everywhere i'm pretty sure there's like a big massacre green blood is everywhere and then bobby joe or and jake say like reveal the trail's gone they like try to leave and then they're like the trail's gone it's not there anymore right and yeah i think bobby joe yeah that is then like i don't care she's just she's so freaked out she's like i'm getting the hell out of here and she runs out and we follow her and we see that pretty much immediately that evil forest spirit gets her and is this in the first one was Was someone? Yeah. Yeah. Penetrated by a tree.

But that didn't happen in this one. It didn't happen here. But she does get a bunch of vines come out from trees and like wrap themselves around her and strangle her and pull on her legs. And she gets yanked into the woods. And I think we're just, you know, assuming. Yeah. I was happy to be spared another tree rape. Some vines do go into her mouth in a way that I did not like. I did think that's where we were.

Yeah. Leaving. We don't go all the way there this time. And then back at the cabin, we see Ash and Annie looking through. Is it maybe the Necronomicon or like papers or something? And she, she brought some pages with her. Right,

right, right. And somewhere there's a drawing of a man in the 1300s. That is, she's like, this is the, the man that they called. I can't remember.

Oh, he who, he who has come from the skies and like, he can defeat this evil spirit or something like that. And because I've seen Army of Darkness I know who it is I know who it is which is very fun

it's Ash don't tell don't tell then is this when Jake is like we gotta go after Bobby Joe and they don't want to because they're he's like these pages mean nothing

and he grabs them from her and rather than he like his hand holding them like goes right past the fireplace like he could have very much thrown it into the fireplace if he wanted to make a statement but he instead keeps moving and then tosses them in the cellar which I thought was funny

it was very funny we want to make it a struggle to get them but still have them not impossible not impossible still have them exist uh yes he tosses the he tosses the pages in the basement and then holds the shotgun up to them and says we're gonna go go after Bobby Joe. And then Ash gets possessed again. Ash gets possessed again when he's outside. And he attacks Jake. Does he kill Jake? I can't remember. No, Jake is killed by the mom who pulls him into the basement.

But I don't really remember that. So, yeah, I don't really remember any of this either. But so they go outside. Ash gets possessed again. So Jake and Annie go back in the cabin. Craziness ensues. Craziness. Annie and Jake go back in the cabin.

And Annie stabs Jake, thinking that he's Ash. Oh, yes. Okay, okay, okay. Yes. Oh, my God. She pulls. It's like this, like, like death weapon that i don't know that gets like revealed that she had or her father had whatever which is like looks like a spine it's

like a big stabby thing that looks like a spine with little head on top but when she stabs it so she so someone is trying to come in the door and she thinks it's ash and so the person comes she's hiding behind a corner the person comes in she just stabs him in the chest but it's actually jake she stabbed him but it's this thing that when she's holding it looks like this like super scary like made of bone black crazy weapon and it then when it is stabbed in his chest it moves around like a piece of rubber it is so funny even when she then goes to like pull it rubber. It is so funny. Even when she then goes to like pull it back out. It is so clearly just like a prop.

A full, like a rubber chicken tear prop. It's so funny. I love it. I mean, that's the charm of this movie. That's the charm of this movie. But so yeah, she stabs Jake in the chest. Pulls, has to drag him through the house because he can't. He's been stabbed in the chest.

He can't walk. And so he's laying on the ground where, yeah, then the mom is able to grab him through the house because He can't he's been stabbed in the chest he can't walk And so he's laying on the ground Where yeah then the mom is able To grab him I guess and just Grabs him by the head with her like thumbs In his eyeballs I saw because I feel like Just starts yanking him and Pulls him down into the cellar with her and He is unable to

To keep him out of there and then That's when blood just starts like Shooting out of the cellar door. When he goes down, that's like a waterfall. It's like that elevator scene in the shining where it's just like, well, cascade of blood pouring out of the cellar.

Just so, so bright red, so bright red, so much. And I think that's when Ash comes back in no longer possessed. I feel like he's maybe still possessed for a second. There's a moment where he sees that magnifying glass necklace. Yes.

And it brings him back. He fights against that demon inside of him. And he's able to return to his natural self but but annie doesn't believe that it's him and is still like trying to kill him and going after him with an axe yeah they just totally fair on annie's part but so what he does is he just grabs her face and goes i'm okay now he does the craziest like i think he like grabs her basically by the throat yeah and is like shaking her like it's me it's me it's really me

well I guess but you know he is he is himself again but she does even after that still one once more try to stab him I think and then eventually is like okay it seems like it actually is seems like it is him so then I think this when they start sort of just suiting up

to take on whatever. There's a montage. There's a montage and this is where we get the classic chainsaw arm contraption thing. You've seen the Halloween costumes. You've seen it. You've seen it. And he saws off the shotgun, which, what does that

do? I know I've heard the phrase sawed off shotgun. What does that make it? More of a painful shot? Maybe it goes faster. Like, you can do it faster. Or, like, you could do it, like, when someone's closer to you, obviously, right? Yeah.

Shotgun's far. It's long. Oh, yeah. Maybe it's, like, easier to aim. Yeah. Ugh. I hate thinking about that. Yeah, it would be bad. The thing that's funny about this montage, it's like full of heroic music.

It's like all the little details in this movie are what make it so funny. And just the fact that it's like, do do do do do do. I mean, that's not the music, but it might as well be. Might as well be. Might as well be. And then there's a slow motion pan to Ash's face when the montage is over. I mean, that's not the music. It might as well be. Might as well be. Might as well be. And then there's a slow motion pan to Ash's face when the montage is over. And he just says, groovy.

Groovy. Groovy. Okay. I looked up. Why would you saw off a shotgun? One answer is to make it easier and faster to handle. Okay. Ease of storage. That feels like a crazy answer.

Just do you know, you guys know what makes things easier to store? Cut them in half. If you're looking to store a couch, just cut it in half. That'll make it easier. It seems like the actual most reasonable answer, which is that the shorter barrel allows the shot to spread,

making it easier to hit your target. Oh, that makes sense. I don't like knowing that. I don't like knowing that i don't like knowing that uh well that on i'm on quora q-u-o-r-a that website honestly it's fucking certified and i fuck with quora matthew stevens who's a former former criminal judge retired says oh for no good reason a sawn- off shotgun is not only illegal without a specific permit but it is absolutely useless useless

god I do not want to get into gun talk right now because it's going to make me upset let's just say he does it he has one Ash has one I think it's good to know if you're ever fighting some evil spirits yeah fine and

only then literally that's it i wish that there were no guns annie gets no weapons she's armed with her intellect yeah i wish there were no guns as well for the record um she just has her big rubber mallet knife oh right And then needs nothing else She has the pages She's the only one who can read the pages So she at some point will realize She's like there are some pages down there in the cellar Where if I read

So I have to read one page And that will open up a black hole And then Oh no no I read one page and it turns the spirit into something Like gives it a physical form And then if I read this next page, it creates a black hole and we can push the evil

spirit through that black hole and send it somewhere else in space and time. Which I like. It's not like we're not getting rid of it entirely. We're just making it somebody else's problem. Also a two-step spell is kind of funny to me for some reason. It's kind of like if we're going to deal with it with magic. Yeah.

Why do we just do the one? Why is it going to be a two part thing? So Ash has to go down in that cellar and get those freaking pages. But the mom is still down there. And she gets nasty as hell. She's nasty. She grows a long snake neck. Is this where she says, I'll swallow your soul.

Yep. Yes. Yep. Yes. And then he says,, I'll swallow your soul. Yep. Yes. And then he says, swallow this. Oh, hell yeah. And then he shoves the shotgun in her. I have wrote in my notes they have sexual tension for a moment.

Oh, he didn't mean that. I don't mean that about the mom. I would have loved it if in this scene he was like, wait a second. And it seems like for a second he's into it. Okay, okay. You'll swallow me whole. What about you? Ew.

That really did confuse me. That note confused me. No, no, no. Says in my notes there's sexual attention in this scene. I don't mean about the demon. I mean about Ash and Annie. They have sexual

attention where they seem like they're going to make out and it's like, I love it when movies do this. It's like, the last thing I would be thinking about is making out with someone right now. It's also his girlfriend died less than 24 hours ago. Her boyfriend died less than one hour ago. That's true.

That's true. It's just, uh, well, I mean, it's like we talked about with Dan Lippert. You'd be feeling alive. You'd be horny.

You need to be feeling that your body still works and is tied to this plane. Um, feeling that your body still works and is tied to this plane um but he does manage to defeat the old lady snake yep neck monster in the basement gets the pages and she starts spell casting and when she does that it makes the spirit really mad yeah the i know the like forest kind of comes alive and trees are attacking the cabin. Oh, we missed at one point. Sorry. I don't know when this was.

It's a fun little moment where the hand is still alive and he's trying to shoot it through the wall. He tries to shoot it. He any any thinks he gets it. The little hand demon, which is still out there somewhere. It's like trapped in the walls like a little rat it's funny they do like a repeated gag in this where the noise of the

hand is coming from different areas and all of the actors will turn in unison and look in different directions and it just it's a good it made me laugh every single time I loved it yeah it was very good but so yeah Annie starts reading the spell also sorry one more thing

about the hand there's a part where it flips him off and just is important to say it's important to say that part made me laugh so much because it's really funny the hand is my favorite part he looks like offended by it he's like that's the best part that's the best part it's because he doesn't get angrier there's no point when he gets really angrier than when the hand flips him off. He's so mad. And it's like, there's so much crazy shit happening to you, dude. The audacity of my own hand showing me that disrespect. How dare you?

You're mine. You're my hand. How? Wait. Wait. That? Wait. What? How dare you? That is a step too far. Yeah, the hand is great. Hand's my favorite part, too. Love the hand. Hand is fabulous. So Annie starts reading the spell, which turns the forest against the house.

And then the monster comes out. And it was reminding me of, it, like, comes through and it starts, like, grabs Ash, trying to kill Ash. But she has to keep reading the spell. But the aesthetic of that monster reminded me of um oh i forget what his name is but that game show and i think you should leave uh where junkie uh that's a junkie that's a junkie it just he had like a big wise like a round face and like a big wide smile and it just reminded me of of figure out what you're gonna do oh my god

perfect show I'm gonna rewatch that again as soon as we're done with this I don't know and but then she does the second spell which creates the black hole and it's working and it's pulling the monster

but she's ever so close to completing the spell you know ash comes over to her and he's like you're doing it you're doing it and then then there's definitely tension and they're like maybe gonna make out and she is unable to speak. And we see that the hand got her own mallet thing, rubber ducky and stabbed her in the back. Mm hmm. And so she's dying on the floor, but she somehow manages to say the last word of the spell in depth. And so everything starts flying through this big

black hole, except also uh-oh, Ash, because it's so powerful. And he says, he starts to get, everything's being sucked into the hole. He finally gets sucked into the vortex and he says, for God's

sake. I mean, it would suck. And that really made me laugh, too. For God's sake. And then he lands wherever this black hole sucked him. And we see that he is in the Middle Ages. And the monster, the demon is still there. And he has to...

Yes, this is a time travel movie, and everyone needs to know that this isn't fucking time travel trilogy. Yep. And he just has another final battle with the evil spirit, and is able to... He shoots it with his sawed-off shotgun. He kills it. He shoots it with his sawed-off shotgun. And he kills it. And all of the knights around him start chanting and cheering.

And they're saying, Hail he who comes from the skies! He who comes from the skies! Hail! Hail! And I think the portal has closed up now. And he's basically looking around and seeing he's in a different time. And doesn't he just go like, oh, no. Yeah.

And he like looks up at the sky and goes, no. He just screams no. Everyone is cheering him on. I mean, honestly, for such a silly movie, that's a very, I mean, that's a very dark ending. Can you imagine? You went through all that shit and then you're stuck in the fucking middle ages and there's still a demon there and you still have to kill the demon i'd be like are you it better better to be dead that's what's so funny about his reaction though his reaction is so like are you serious like

it's very realistic but also very like kind of network television-y at the same time. Yeah. Like the Looney Tunes like vignette should be circling around his face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So what do you guys think? Are you going to watch Army of Darkness? Of course. I could watch Army of Darkness.

Honestly. I'm curious. I wasn't planning on it, but if anyone forced me to, I would do it in a heartbeat. I think Army of Darkness is probably even less scary i wouldn't say that this movie is particularly scary but it's it's even leaning further into comedy and like action and hell yeah i saw army of darkness first that was the first one I saw and so I didn't actually even know that it was part of the Evil Dead trilogy at first because it feels tonally different.

But I want to rewatch it now having recently seen these other two and I feel like it'll be much more satisfying. Yeah, I would totally watch it. Wow, thank you guys so much for being brave and watching this film with me.

It was so fun. It was so fun. I'm glad that you liked it. I thought I had a feeling that it would probably be one that we could all handle and enjoy. It really was an hour and 25 minutes, which I was so thrilled by. Absolutely love to see it. So that was great news for me. For all of us, really. What a great treat. Sammy, thank you so much for choosing this one. I'm so happy that I get to say that I've seen this movie.

Yeah. That's the most important thing. It's a good staple of the horror genre, I think. Slowly but surely. You guys are just becoming horror experts. Should we do the little hand voice as the goodbye?

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