While The Evil Dead managed to charm audiences with it's simple yet entertaining production, Evil Dead 2 was Raimi's shot at showing what he could do with some real money. As in, what he could do that people might watch. A lot of the points of the first movie are gone over again, but this time the direction is more in line with horror comedy. Or

In 1992, Hell would come.. to EARTH! Which gives two options. Los Angeles, or New York? More importantly.. how would it come together, as Miramax now held the rights to the franchise? Clive Barker had the least influence (blog post) of any Hellraiser movie yet, and almost horror movie none of the previous characters are even mentioned in this one

A few weeks back, behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Prey sparked up debate online on CGI vs Practical Effects. Before CGI was a thing, it was all practical all the time due to necessity. However, in the years since Jurassic Park showed us that CGI can be more impressive in many ways, Hollywood has gone CGI for most everything.