Just because it's Denser and Wackier than its predecessor doesn't mean it's any less scary of a movie.
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- The famous scene where all of the various items in the room start laughing uproariously at Ash, who starts madly laughing along with them (laugh along here
). It seems less like demonic possession and more like a delusional breakdown after everything that happened at that point. Plus, the face Ash makes as he laughs maniacally is downright unnerving. Ash's life may have been on a downward spiral since the Necronomicon was translated, but this was where Ashy's sanity has hit the Point of No Return. - The scene where a decapitated deadite gets up and performs its grotesquely erotic dance.
- It may seem silly, but the dance can be pretty unnerving when you recall it's the same dance Linda was doing at the start of the movie while Ash played the piano. As a result, it seems like it was meant to further torment Ash.
- She disappears into the woods, only to appear right in front of the window and attack Ash. He starts screaming—only to find himself sitting in the rocking chair. At the exact moment he calms down, the deadite's severed head lands on his lap.
- The scene where Ash's reflection reaches through the mirror, grabs the real Ash by the throat, and points out that he/they just chopped up their girlfriend, in response to Ash's attempts to calm down by assuring himself he's okay. Then the camera angle changes to show Ash's own hands around his neck, which freaks him out even more.
- Henrietta, especially when her neck stretches and turns into a snake skull demon.
- For subtler creepiness, there's her singing "Hush Little Baby."
- "Come to me. Come to sweet Henrietta."
- On that note, it's alarming how quickly Annie and Bobby Joe went from baying for Ash's blood to begging Jake to let him out of the cellar when they hear how terrified he is:"LEMME OUT! LET ME OUT!! THERE'S SOMETHING DOWN HERE!!"
- "Even now, we have your darling Linda's soul! She suffers in torment!" That's the severed head of Linda talking. She later starts crying. On another note, we never learn whether or not "Linda" was lying.Linda: [normal voice, crying] Please, Ash, please don't hurt me! You swore— you swore we'd always be together!Ash: [also crying] ...NO!Linda: [demonic] YES! Your lover's mine, and now she burns in Hell!!
- The "thing in the woods" crashing through the wall at the climax.
- Or crashing through the car window and into the cabin, in previous pursuit of an Ash who knew it would possess him again if it caught him.
- Bobby Joe's death. After running out into the woods in a panic, she encounters demonically possessed trees as she's attacked by branches and vines wrap themselves around her, dragging her off at high speeds deeper into the woods as she screams in terror before slamming her into a large tree. We never see the moment of impact, but it's clear it wasn't pretty.
- In the original script, the result is shown from a distance. It's...bloody.
- As Bobby Joe is being dragged, you can see the branches are stabbing into her skin.
- Deadite Ash! Yes, The Hero gets possessed (he gets better, but the first time it's nightmarish).
- Even better, it happens twice, once early on and again in the climax.
- "JOIN US!"
- We don't see what the Henrietta Deadite does to Jake, but based on the sheer volume of blood that douses Annie, it's definitely not a pleasant death.
- The thing that makes the reveal of the Kandarian demon in the flesh so frightening is not so much the demon itself, but rather the extremely jarring and off-putting camera angle used in the scene.
- There's also the fact that it has the faces of everyone it has killed or possessed that night under it's eye, including Ash's implying it stole at least part of his soul when it possessed him.
