Evil Dead II

Ash returns to the cabin and the first ten minutes recap the original with a different cast because Raimi could not licence the footage.

What follows is one of the great physical comedies. Ash fights his own possessed hand, is beaten with plates, laughs along with the furniture, and eventually replaces the hand with a chainsaw.

Raimi shot it with the same techniques as the first, the shaky-cam on a plank, the aggressive Dutch angles, plus a great deal of stop motion, and the slapstick timing is Three Stooges rather than horror.

Bruce Campbell's performance is a physical achievement and made him a permanent cult figure.

It flopped and found its audience on video.

The ending sets up Army of Darkness, which is a medieval comedy and barely horror.