Deux jeunes amoureux se rendent dans la cabane du professeur Knowby, qui a mystérieusement disparu apres avoir eu en sa possession quelques pages du livre des morts, redoutable grimoire disparu au XIVe siècle. 

« Rares sont les suites qui arrivent à exister en tant que film autonome- ne devant (presque) rien à l'original dont elles ne sont le plus souvent que la copie. EVIL DEAD 2 est de celles-la. Sam Raimi parvient à faire mieux qu'Evil Dead et offre au spectateur médusé un film hystérique, rageur, drôle, inventif, tordu?. Bref les qualificatifs viennent à manquer. » – ECRANLARGE.COM

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The second of three films in the Evil Dead series is part horror, part comedy, with Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) once again battling horrifying demons at a secluded cabin in the woods. After discovering an audiotape left by a college professor that contains voices reading from the Book of the Dead, Ash's girlfriend Linda (Denise Bixler) becomes possessed by evil spirits that are awakened by the voices on the tape. Ash soon discovers there is no escaping the woods. 

‘Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn" is a comedy disguised as a blood-soaked shock-a-rama. It looks superficially like a routine horror movie, a vomitorium designed to separate callow teenagers from their lunch. But look a little closer and you'll realize that the movie is a fairly sophisticated satire. Level One viewers will say it's in bad taste. Level Two folks like myself will perceive that it is about bad taste.’’ – ROGER EBERT