Evil Dead II  DVD Horror-Thriller Written by Bill Warren   
Tuesday, 29 August 2000  When Rob Tapert met Sam Raimi, younger
brother of Tapert's college roommate Ivan, they immediately
started making short films together, which Sam had already been
doing while in high school with his friends Bruce Campbell,
Scott Spiegel and others. Eventually, their ambitions increased,
they managed to scrape together money from investors, and went
off to the woods of Tennessee one shivering winter to make THE
EVIL DEAD. None of them had even been on a movie set before, but
they turned out a film that dazzled hardened horror-movie mavens
such as Stephen King, who loudly and frequently endorsed the
wildly creative movie.  A few years later, King enthusiastically
suggested to Dino De Laurentiis that he back a sequel to THE
EVIL DEAD, and so EVIL DEAD II was born. (Note: that is the
correct title, although the advertising and DVD box all use
"Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn.") The result is one of the most
astonishingly inventive horr