鬼玩人2

看了Roger Ebert在上映当年写的影评，发现是这一部电影启发了一种新的类型，披着恐怖片外衣的血浆喜剧片。Sam Raimi把血腥的镜头大杂烩之后营造的黑色幽默非常天才。Roger Ebert说这是一部“about bad taste”的电影，很精妙的评论。

顺手搬一下原文。 Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn movie review (1987) | Roger Ebert

"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.

The plot: Visitors to a cottage in the Michigan woods discover a rare copy of the Book of the Dead and accidentally invoke evil spirits. The spirits run amok, disemboweling and vivisecting their victims. The hero battles manfully with the dread supernatural forces, but he is no match for the unspeakably vile creatures in the basement, in the woods and behind every door.

This story is told with wall-to-wall special effects. Skeletons dance in the moonlight. Heads spin on top of bodies. Hands go berserk and start attacking their owners. After they are chopped off, they have a life of their own. Heads are clamped into vises and squashed. Blood sprays all over everything. Guts spill. Slime spews. If nauseating images of horrific gore are not, as they say, your cup of tea, the odds are good you will not have a great time during this movie.

On the other hand, if you know it's all special effects, and if you've seen a lot of other movies and have a sense of humor, you might have a great time at "Evil Dead 2." I did - up to a point. The movie devours ideas at such a prodigious rate that it begins to repeat itself toward the end, but the first 45 minutes have a kind of manic, inspired genius to them.

Consider, for example, the scene where the hero severs his hand from his body and the hand takes on a life of its own, attacking him. Leave out the blood and the gore and a few of the details, and this entire sequence builds like a tribute to the Three Stooges. Consider the scene where the hero attaches a chain saw to what's left of his amputated arm. Disgusting, right? But the director, Sam Raimi, approaches it as a sly jab at the way Robert De Niro armed himself in "Taxi Driver."

I'm not suggesting that "Evil Dead 2" is fun merely because you can spot the references to other movies. It is because (a) the violence and gore are carried to such an extreme that they stop being disgusting and become surrealistic; (b) the movie's timing aims for comedy, not shocks, and (c) the grubby, low-budget intensity of the film gives it a lovable quality that high-tech movies wouldn't have.

There is one shot in the film that is some kind of masterpiece. There is a force out there in the woods. We never see it, but we see things from its point of view. In one long and very complex unbroken point-of-view shot, this force roars through the woods, flattens everything, crashes through the cabin door, and roars through room after room with invincible savagery, chasing the hero until.... But I wouldn't dream of giving away the joke.

1987美国恐怖片《鬼玩人2》，定级R，豆瓣评分7.3，时光网评分6.9，IMDb评分7.7。

第二部的评分是包含两部重启版在内的五部“鬼玩人”电影中最高的。第二部的特点是不搞剧情，不搞悬疑吊胃口，没有角色刻画，直截了当，单刀直入，开门见山，直接对路恐怖片粉丝口味，开篇就是恐怖，惊吓密集，恐怖血腥贯穿始终，从头吓到尾，就是为了让恐怖片观众大呼过瘾。

开篇衔接第一部结尾，给足了男主独角戏的表演空间，男主自己在鬼屋里自娱自乐了足足半小时，男主自己的半小时纯粹是为恐怖片观众投其所好，这半小时没有剧情，为了恐怖而恐怖，男主自由发挥了半小时，遭老罪了，很是不容易。

第一部中男主的表演还很稚嫩，放不开，没特色，第二部的表演成熟多了，完全放开了，表情丰富，怪不得“鬼玩人”三部曲都由他主演，连后来长达三季的同名电视剧集都由老了的他来演。

第一部是纯恐怖片，第二部则增加了喜剧元素，在男主独处鬼屋时，屋子里的很多东西活了，这个桥段采取的是喜剧手法。到了第三部《魔界英豪》，走的完全是“恐怖+喜剧”的路线。男主断手会走路，让我想到了《亚当斯一家》中的手。

第二部的特效方面上了台阶，片头用定格动画的形式让无头死尸复活跳舞，这个特效是将小尺寸定格动画叠加到了实景背景中，是定格动画特效的一大创新，比第一部特效更有含金量。

影片开篇介绍了《死亡之书》的来历，丰富了《死亡之书》这个重要线索的内涵。

第二部的剧情同样弱到爆，比第一部还弱，总时长才84分钟，开篇男主独角戏就占了半小时，男主戏纯是在占时长，除去独角戏的有效剧情才五十分钟。

第二部其实没有剧情，就是复刻了第一部的模式，外加男主独角戏，虽然如此生拼硬凑，但由于恐怖戏份密集，所以深得恐怖片观众喜欢，所以第二部的评分是最高的。

第二部确立了男主的经典造型——一手猎枪，一手电锯。

第二部在镜头运用上更为娴熟，不仅沿用了第一部的第一人称低视角运动镜头，还增加了第一人称视角闯进屋里的运动镜头，惊悚氛围非常到位。

1992年，第三部《鬼玩人3：魔界英豪》上映。

2013年，重启版《鬼玩人》上映。

2023年，新重启版《鬼玩人崛起》上映。