If you go down to the woods today...
31 Days of Halloween exhumes some of our favourite horror films, giving all you film-hungry ghouls a brief run-down of some of the most frightful film classics to shamble into cinemas. So grab some treats, fire up your cauldron, and join us as we celebrate some of the best fright flicks of all-time this Halloween.
Our first pick is a film that embodies everything we love about Halloween, Evil Dead II. Shocking and silly in equal measure, Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's splatterpunk odyssey is one of the most gruesome, yet out-and-out enjoyable horror movies ever stitched together. Gore-hounds will relish the stomach-churning set-pieces, including a sequence in which our tortured hero Ash does battle with his own demoniacally-driven arm, and comedy fans will get a kick out of many instances of Stooges-style slapstick littered throughout the film.
Sam Raimi's second stab at the franchise also has this rare energy, a kind of mad-cap intensity, that's completely electrifying - his camera whips around like it is itself possessed, and you get the sense the whole film could shake apart at any moment. Luckily, Bruce Campbell, the chin that launched a thousand ships, is there to hold the whole together, his smarmy-store-clerk-turned-monster-slayer, Ash, the perfect foil for Raimi's increasingly lurid bouts of lunacy.
The end result is a nigh-perfect blend of hair-raising horror and knee-slapping hijinks; a film that's just a likely to raise a few laughs as it is your gorge. In short, the perfect movie to kick off this most horrible of holiday seasons.
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