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Evil Dead II holds a 98 % approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, slightly less than The Evil Dead, which holds a 100 % rating.

On a similar website Metacritic, it holds a score of 69 / 100 ( generally favorable ) with a user rating of 9. 2 / 10.

Empire magazine praised the film saying " the gaudily gory, virtuoso, hyper-kinetic horror sequel / remake uses every trick in the cinematic book " and confirms that " Bruce Campbell and Raimi are gods " and Caryn James of The New York Times called it " genuine, if bizarre, proof of Sam Raimi's talent and developing skill.

" Leonard Maltin originally rated the film with two stars, but later increased the rating to three stars.