• Director: Sam Raimi, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Grove, Timothy Patrick Quill, Ted Raimi
• With: Bruce Campbell,
• Music by: Joseph LoDuca
• Duration: 1h20
• Studio: Universal Pictures
• Rating: 7,5/10

Synopsis:

As the unfathomable tentacles of evil spread across time and space, Ash finds himself whisked off to another dimension, right after the supernatural events of Evil Dead II (1987). Now, trapped in the distant Middle Ages, circa 1300 AD, battle-scarred Ash must fight tooth and nail against the same old adversary he confronted in The Evil Dead (1981). However, this time, he is neck-deep in trouble: not one, not two demons, but the entire army of darkness is after Ash, thirsting for his soul. And what’s more, there is no turning back. Can the guy with the chainsaw and the 12-gauge double-barrelled shotgun blast evil to smithereens and save both worlds from the curse of the mystical Necronomicon?

Review:

Ash is being pulled into the vortex he and Annie opened in the previous movie (again, the backstory has been changed a little bit from Evil Dead II) with his shotgun, chainsaw and the precious Oldsmobile! He arrives in a Medieval community and has to survive a deadite attack (I think this is the first time the word ‘Deadite’ is used in the franchise). His only way back is getting the Necronomicon but by attempting to do that he unleashes a grave evil!

Bruce is just great as Ash, growing even more in his role as the ‘groovy’ dude that messes up and then has to look for a solution. He has to fight himself, in a mini-version as well as a full grown version. The cemetery scene is my second favourite scene in the entire franchise! Ash, why the long face?

Remember the words: Klaatu, Verada, Nicto! 😆