Celebrate Halloween at VTIFF. Costumes encouraged!
Sam Raimi has gone on to much bigger things, playing an outsized role in setting off the superhero boom in the 21st century, for better and worse, and shepherding a misbegotten entry in the Doctor Strange series. but it’s fair to say that his biggest cinematic milestone is Evil Dead II, quite possibly the greatest horror-comedy ever. This sort-of sequel to his massively influential regional splatterfest, The Evil Dead, is bigger, funnier, zanier, and scarier. With a leg up from Stephen King, Raimi hooked up with producer Dino De Laurentis to secure a sizable enough budget to really paint the town… er, the cabin in the woods… red. Bruce Campbell gives a career defining performances as Ash Williams, throwing himself into every cartoonish set piece with total conviction and unrivaled slapstick chops, and emerging as a square-jawed, chainsaw-wielding action stud for the ages. Join us for this wild ride as we crack open the Necronomicon on All Hallow’s Eve.