Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn

In which the franchise abandons its pure horror roots and begins its lifelong fixation (save the 2013 soft reboot) with conjuring more laughs than scares. It’s practically a cartoon at this point; the most fearsome enemy in the film’s first half is the main character’s hand. If memory serves, Raimi’s later “Drag Me to Hell” was a much better comedy and horror film, but I’d be lying if I said I was ever bored with “Evil Dead 2”. There’s something hysterical to seeing the guy from “Burn Notice” getting covered in Kool-Aid and spouting one-liners out of a Schwarzenegger flick.

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