When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
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The ultimate Cabin in the woods. A headstrong manic descent into low budget demon crazy. A game changer for sure, a genre monolith, and beyond influential. A couple years ago my 70 something year old Dad came up to me and said “hey, there’s this tv show coming out called Ash vs. Evil Dead, it’s based on that movie I’m pretty sure you love, we should watch it”
Oh, we watched it, and we loved it too. And tonight I finally sat down with my old man and we watched The Evil Dead together. We had a blast. 13 year old me would never believe that 33 year old me would ever watch this with my dad... AND that he…
My original thoughts on "The Evil Dead" were lukewarm at best when I first viewed it about a year ago for the Halloween season. Most of my major problems stemmed from the simple fact I didn't find it scary and found some of it to be fairly dated.
Revisiting it, those two issues are still there, yet what has changed is my prospective entering it. See, when I first watched it, I was expecting to be scared out of my mind to the point where I wouldn't be able to sleep at night due to how many have claimed it of doing that especially in comparison to it's two sequels that came after it.
With that mind set, I kept…
Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods, where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find a tome called the "Naturan Demanto", Book of the Dead, and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens are possessed. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.
If you haven't seen this film and you'd read that synopsis, you probably wouldn't think it is one of the greatest entries in the horror genre ever made. You'd probably rank it among the avalanche of other horror films released in the early eighties. The fact that it…
release a cut with the totally unnecessary tree rape scene edited out & then we'll talk about giving it the 4+ stars it actually deserves
A decaying body revealing more layers of pure madness underneath its regular looking skin as it goes along. Such a beautifully gross nightmare.
I can't believe my dumbass had this at a 3/5 for over a year.
Rewatch with my immediate family minus C.
A great, stylistic horror film with springy emotion and snappy immediacy. The camera work is great as always and young Bruce Campbell is a good actor.
The horror and suspense outweighs the dark comedy in this movie. However the acting isn’t the best and some of the effects are cheesy it is still my favorite horror movie
The Evil Dead is a popular cult classic horror movie released in 1981 staring Bruce Campbell and directed by Sam Raimi.
The story is a group of friends who go deep into the woods for a vacation and stay at an old cabin. After a nice hand job curtesy of a demon and a toast with paper cups the group find the necronomicon and a tap of the previous owner reading passages that wake up any resting spirits around the area. Now the kids have to survive the night while fighting of ghouls, a horny tree, and even them selves from possession.
The Evil Dead is a great movie and an outstanding introduction to Sam Raimis work as film maker.
Now one of my favourite horrors. It is a terrifying and largely suspenseful film that shows what can be done on a small budget, better than any horror film made to day. The practical effects on this film are some of the best ever I would even say that they rival films like the thing in terms of effects.
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