The Reel Rejects - EVIL DEAD 2 (1987) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: October 10, 2024

ROOVY!! Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Now that they've seen 1981's The Evil Dead, Scream Queens Roxy Striar & Tara Erickson RETURN to the cabin in the woods to give their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Full Movie Spoiler Review for the sequel directed by Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Drag Me to Hell) and featuring the return of Fan Favorite Horror Icon, Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness, Bubba Ho-Tep, Sky High, My Name is Bruce) as Ash Williams along with Sarah Berry, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Dan Hicks, Denise Bixler, Ted Raimi, & MORE! Tara & Roxy REACT to all the Zaniest Scenes & Scariest Moments including the Laughter Scene, Groovy, Linda's Head - Jump Scare Scene, the Dancing Zombie Girlfriend Scene, the Give Me Back My Hand! Scene, Possessed Henrietta Attacks!, The Trees Attack Bobbie Joe, Ash Gets a Chainsaw Arm Scene, Ash vs. The Giant Demon Scene, & Beyond! Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My cherry-loving queen. Let's do it, Bo. Yeah, that's our best high-five yet. See you guys on the other side. Tara. Oh my goodness. Roxy. Yes.

This felt more Sam Ramey. Listen, that was wild. That was insane. That was wild. Like, I mean, we have so much to break down and talk about it because we need to look up some of the cast. We need to do some trivia. We need to get to all those places.

We need to discuss and break down the movie. how different that was from the first one. Before we do any of that, we need to remind them a couple of things. Number one, rejignation shop.com, go get your Colt of Sheeject's merch. You know you want it. Number two, go follow us on social media. When we're done with series now, we want to be doing rankings, and we're going to be doing that on our social.

So we've got a couple to catch up on. Let me see if I recognize any of these names. No, I don't recognize the names. We've got to look it up. I don't know any of them. Uh, my dude. My dude. My dude. My dude. My dude. My dude. Okay. We are so lucky that this movie was so wild because I was, I felt exhausted, but nobody in their right mind could not pay attention to this movie. Like, every single thing that happened was like, wait, what? Right. Whoa. What? I agree. Do you prefer this to the first one? No, I like the first one better, only because I just thought the first one was such like an OG thing that it just felt like, whoa, we'd never seen this before.

But this one in regards to the practical effects and like you could see they had more money, more of a budget, when it got towards the end, that was super, super rad. I liked what I saw. I mean, I definitely liked this one. But there was something more classic about the first one. And I was definitely more scared in the first one. I wasn't really that scared in this one. Not that that makes it or breaks a movie for me at all. I like both.

But I feel like I still like the first one more. I feel you in some ways. Like the first one's bawling on a budget, right? Yeah. Sometimes your creativity can really go up when you have very little money, one location, a few shoot dates, and you just have something, a simple concept. Right.

But I love that this one built on that idea and then, like, went really crazy with it. I mean, it's cool that they had strangers instead of friends because we can kind of get to know each other as they're getting to know each other, which is interesting. I liked the connection of the parents, this new, like, come morning, come dawn. Yeah, that's a new thing. Yeah, like the last one kind of alluded to that a little bit. Like, we can't go outside until the morning. Yeah.

But this, like, we finally, we saw it at the beginning take over him and then leave him as the. Yeah. That was interesting, too. Then where we wake up or where we get sucked into out of the hole as he goes into, whatever year that is, whatever location that is. I mean, like, what do you think that this franchise is due? Is that like at the end of every series, are we going to get sucked in somewhere else so he protects X, Y, Z from the Deadites?

Oh. Is this Ash versus the Deadites all throughout time? Huh. That could be kind of cool. I don't know. I was just like, oh, they're obviously setting it up. Are we going to be right back with like Crusaders in medieval times and him being in that environment?

Or because of the ending, wherever we put him, people will just assume that he's like, he's like the leader and he's the one who knows how to kill the bad things around. Maybe. I don't know. We flipped out over the eyeball. Yeah.

Like the practical effects in this were insanely great. When the eyeball goes in her mouth, I think she looked away sooner. It grows me out so much because there's still a tendon hanging out of her mouth. Stop, stop, stop, bro. Do you care about me? Do you care about me? That was wild.

Stop, bro. Stop, bro. That was insane. There was something about that flying eyeball that I was like, I can't. I know. It was gross. This movie made me nauseous the way it was shot. Shaky Cam always does that for me.

That's not a bad thing. That's what they're going for. Yeah. There was a lot of flashes that made me kind of feel dizzy and my eyes hurt. And there was a lot of audio adjustments where I was like, whoa. And it made me feel like I've lost my equilibrium. Yeah. So this is like, not to say that the movies we have watched aren't this,

but this feels like it is like real horror. Yeah. And even though it's not as scary as the first one, it's still, this is a fucking horror movie. Absolutely. I agree. And in the amount of like, whoa, like gallons of blood that they used. Like this was like blood. And then black blood, red blood, black with the green blood, too, from that other.

Yeah, wild. Really wild. Okay. Let's see what I can. tell you. Yeah, that was like, I mean, everybody in this did a great job, too, as well. And I like how much. Yeah, all the actors. And I really liked how Bruce Campbell looked as his, like, zombie counterpart or whatever. It looked really, really great. And the arm. Yeah, the arm was funny. And I didn't, I, that was a surprise to me, like, fun, cool writing when she,

get stabbed in the back with the thing that she killed the guy with, I thought that was super fun writing. And it was a twist I wasn't expecting. I'm so upset with myself right now. Okay. Who is it? I can't believe I didn't know this. So I grew up with my mom every day.

I'd come home from school. We'd watch ABC Sobes. General Hospital, One Life to Live, Port Charles, all my children. Every single day, four hours. Every day we'd put on tape and I'd come home and watch it with her. Oh, my God. So the woman that was like, she's very famous actress. Yeah.

That's not necessarily the case. She is a soap actress that I watched for my entire life. Oh, my God. She played Blair. She was on all the ABC Soaps. It's so crazy that I did not pick up on that. She did 381 episodes of days of our lives, 40 episodes of One Life, 821 episodes of One Life to Live. General Hospital, yeah, Blair's, like, she was a huge, huge character on the show.

All right, doing soap. She looks like a soap girl. I was like, I know her. She's a huge star. That's crazy that I couldn't pull that. I was like she's a mom on some show. That is Blair Starr's mom. My soap people tell me.

I think Blair stars' mom, you guys let me know. Okay. So that the girl that I thought was going to be the final girl, who was certainly not the final girl, this is, okay, this is crazy. This is one of two movies she ever did. Really? She started with this movie.

And then two years later, she did a movie called Chud 2, Bud the Chud. Never heard of it. And then she quit? Let's see. Yeah, I guess so. Okay. That's wild. She did a great job in this.

Yeah. We know that this was a Sam Ramey movie. He both wrote and directed it, which Sam Ramey would be all over the place now. Trivia-wise, what can I tell you? Stephen King was such a huge fan of the Evil Dead that he convinced producer Dino de Lorenta. over dinner who was producing King's maximum overdrive at the time to have his production company

D.E.G. DeLorenta's entertainment group finance Evil Dead 2. Okay. So that's how they... Okay. You know, De Laurentia's godfather. I went to... I was in the same sorority with his

granddaughter, with his daughter. Oh. Dina, not Dina. During the scene where the serve head of, during the scene where the severed. It's like the served head. The severed head of Linda bites Asher's

hand. Bruce Campbell says the single line, work shed. That's, yeah, that's the one. This line was later redubbed, of course it was in post-production due to the quality of the audio, giving it a strange, slightly disproportionate sound to the audio. Nine years later, while filming this cameo and escaped from

L.A., the first thing Kurt Russell said to Bruce Campbell on set jokingly was, say, Workshed. That's funny because I stopped us. I was like, that was some weird ADR. Definitely ADR, yeah. Okay. Sam Ramey credit Stephen King with making this film possible.

Ramey couldn't acquire enough money to fund the production. So that's how they ended up doing that. The large demonic head ash battles in the climax of the film, which the crew nicknamed the rotten applehead, was too large and cumbersome for the crew to carry back to California. So it was left in North Carolina and soon disappeared. It's whereabouts were unknown for a number of years until it was found in a Halloween haunted house attraction

just outside the original shooting location of Wayboro, North Carolina. That's wild. That's a great find. Oh, this says it's Bruce Campbell's favorite film of the trilogy. Okay. Because he got a while he really got to work. Him against himself with a hand.

And he had a whole movie to himself for the first 40 minutes. Asher's chainsaw appears to switch hands in one scene. This is because Sam Ramey decided Ash should walk the opposite way across the room in that scene so he flipped the negative oh yeah that's why it's that i didn't notice it either um okay there's so i mean this is such a beloved franchise there's just so much to it in the trivia producers insisted upon using different colors of blood to avoid an x rating this proved futile as the mpa gave the film an x anyway the film was ultimately released unrated i thought it said are when we started. Huh. Okay. Unrated. Wow. It's so crazy because like we just came from a franchise

where it was like all tits and ass and this is not like that. No, not at all. I don't even think they said bad words. It's just yeah, blood and the zombies of like, I'll get you. And a visual pun, one of the books on the can that traps Ashes' possessed hand is earnest Hemingway's a farewell to arms. Okay. Okay. The eyeball, shot was actually filmed in reverse. Yeah, so she spit it out. Got it. Got it. I don't love it.

Gross. At one hour, seven minutes and five seconds, Ash's first utterance of his signature comment Groovy. Does that mean we get more groovy? I hope so. I mean, that's like a line you're going to remember from this movie. Is Groovy and I guess workshed? I think Groovy is

the most out-of-pocket thing we've ever heard in any horror movie. Like, Groovy. That was crazy. I want to hear from you guys. What's your favorite bit of trivia on this? Do you, is this the best one of the trilogy? How many of these are there?

It sounds like Bruce Campbell did three, but then I know that they've been making them in recent years. So do we have a lot to look forward to? Just let us know all the things. Do you have questions for that? Let us know. No, I don't have any questions. Except I would like you to tell you to go to my Instagram link in my Instagram.

I'm doing a campaign for a film. I'd love it if you'd help me out. It's going to be bloody and you've got to have zombies. So, you know, this is my audience for it. Wish you said at the top, bro. That's all right. We'll do it next time. Yeah.

But go do that. Please thank you. All right. Later, Rejects. David Milioro. He's new. New guy. Oh, you know what that means.

We got the classic. Yes. Got the Coca-Cola classic shoutout. D. There you. stands for diglet like the Pokemon because you are digging yourself into a corner here a stands for ammonite also a Pokemon but a water type mm v stands for Voltron because you're going to explode all over us I stands for I Frankenstein because you have the power to build your own self-image

and D stands for D Dracula because you like to suck the blood out of poor innocent women. M stands for a monster because you're a monster in the bedroom, maybe. I stands for, I didn't realize we're doing

your first and last name. Oh. L stands for lascivious because you are a horn dog, you. Why stands for why do you segregate people

with your vocabulary, John? A stands for Ayres, because I like to put on airs. You know what I mean? R stands for rudimentary. I know what that word means. O stands for

otter. Because you're probably cuddly, like an otter. Like an otter. You want to cuddle with them otters. Mm-hmm. Well, let's hope that October's a good month to you, David, Meliaro. Yeah, trick-or-treat, mofo. Get some candy. Moma, Papa, my body,

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