Movieposting: Evil Dead 2

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 I watched this movie in the ideal circumstances- a few drinks in at a Halloween party, with a group of people cheering every time something completely batshit happened.

 

This movie completely runs on vibes, not logic. The events of the plot and the characters' motivations do not coherently follow from one scene to the next. Still, I didn't feel lost. I had a fun time watching this movie. It has what I think of as the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure approach to storytelling. The characters' emotions are what drives the action forward, in absence of logical plot progression. What needs to happen for the characters to go on their entire emotional journey, with the greatest amount of grandiose spectacle along the way, is what happens. 

 

Camp. Pressure-washer volumes of gore. Inadequately explained supernatural bullshit. Yeah, this movie is exactly what I expected and wanted from it. There are a few brief quiet moments which invoke a sense of dread and disorientation in the spaces between the over-the-top violence and manic energy that stand out in this film... They are just little breathers that keep the viewer from getting burnt out on it. Well-placed punctuation in a movie that is not at any point about subtlety.