“The Evil Dead" (1981) | Sam Raimi
RIGOR MORTIS - wizard of gore
Beckoning victims to his horror show into the chamber of pain
Not realizing that soon they will die killed by a man who’s insane
Prisoners scream as their blood starts to flow body parts fall to the floor
Choosing the pieces that he wants to keep, he is the Wizard of Gore
Ends your life slicing with his knife Say goodbye it’s your time to die
Bone collections, tissue samples Buckets of blood, bowls of eyeballs
Find new ways to destroy Watching death is his joy
Now since the end of your life on this earth you have begun to decay
He looks upon you with a madman’s grin and watches you rot away
Time for the next helpless victims to die screaming like never before
Laughing while pulling their tongues from their heads,
he is the Wizard of Gore!
Makes you die with no reason why
Craves your blood, he will have your blood.
I just watched “The Dead 2” Sunday and it blew me away! It is as good as the original “The Dead” if not better!
The like Romero’s zombie films, this film does not carry over characters from the previous film. Although you get a little glimpse when the previous films hero Brian Murphy is picked up on radio by this film’s hero when he is trying to use his CB.
The setting has been changed from Africa (specifically Burkina Faso and Ghana) to India. Nicholas Burton (played excellently by Joseph Millson) is an American electrical engineer working on a wind far in central India when the zombie plague that is ravaging Africa spreads to the subcontinent. He is desperately trying to reach his pregnant girlfriend Ishani in Mumbai with the aid of an orphan boy named Javed. Like Romero’s zombie films, the living dead are just one of their problems as the must also contend with desperate survivors and the Indian Army’s desperate attempts to control the zombie plague; including executing potential carriers.
This film has a lot of the same elements as the first. An American engineer trying to get to his family, people of different races and cultures coming together in the face of adversity and the importance of the family.
Its just as gory and violent as the previous film with lots of gruesome gore effects and scenes of gut wrenching violence.
The cinematography and direction are spot on. It is beautifully filmed and well paced. It has a lot of good scares and action sequences that never let up on the tension. And you never really think about how big India really is until you see two figures on a motorcycle crossing one of its deserts.
I highly recommend this film and the first film, and I hope they make more. (Maybe next the will go to China or Russia or South America)
If you have not seen the first film then get both and make a double feature of it. Some critics have even gone as far to say that the first film was the best zombie film since Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” or “Dawn of the Dead”.
