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.
Bruce Campbell Ellen Sandweiss Richard DeManincor Betsy Baker Theresa Tilly Philip A. Gillis Dorothy Tapert Cheryl Guttridge Barbara Carey David Horton Wendall Thomas Don Long Stu Smith Kurt Rauf Ted Raimi Ivan Raimi Bill Vincent Mary Beth Tapert Scott Spiegel John Cameron Joanne Kruse Gwen Cochanski Debie Jarczewski Sam Raimi Josh Becker Bob Dorian Tom Sullivan Robert Tapert
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i stand by my review from 2 1/2 years ago that the tree rape scene is totally unnecessary and detracts from this near-perfect horror staple. for the sake of my sanity i will not be reading the 78 comments that it somehow garnered, thanks! :)
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
Cannot for the life of me get into this movie. Ya know what? I'm just gonna blame my disinterest for this on the debate interrupting me halfway through. Perfect. So we're all in agreement not to yell at me because this is the debate's fault. Not mine. Fuck you, Mike Pence! Great.
Yeah I don't know, I thought the blood was cool? Big fan of the blood. Some really fun things happening here and there! But ehh?? Just kinda annoying sometimes and I really didn't care about these people. But how about that fly!
The ultimate Cabin in the woods. A headstrong manic panic descent into low budget hyper terror demon crazy. Audacious, innovative, and most importantly... scary, this movie does more with less than most pictures do with piles of cash as genre hooligans Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell achieve euphoric gore drenched viscera of the highest order. A game changer, beyond influential, and one hell of a genre monolith, The Evil Dead rests buried back a bit in the trees... waiting for fresh tendril viewers to peak at the poster, get curious, and read the Latin.
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Legendary low budget directed by Sam Raimi. It is absolutely fun. A cult classic that is true camp! After seeing many times it just hit me the demons looked like disgusting clowns lol. I’m shocked it never registered before!
Bruce Campbell the iconic Ash looks so young! Shot in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee the state I was born and raised in! A must see on anyone’s October list.
For this month I am only going to watch my horror favorites! Some try to watch a new horror movie for 31 days of horror. I want to enjoy my favorites. I’ll try to watch one every other day on the even days of the month.
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There's nothing quite like the original film. Its low-budget tangibility, the dark forest, the grueling make-up and gore effects. The birth of Sam Raimi's one-of-a-kind style. No matter the success of the rest of the series, this midnight movie terror remains unmatched. So, of course, I wanted to talk about it.
While the direct sequels to this are relatively more notable in retrospect as they heavily lean further into pure absurdity, there is no denying of course that the first Evil Dead film is still an effective horror piece to this very day.
With a minimal budget at hand, director Sam Raimi would efficiently utilize this to its fullest here by creating one of the most ingenious and unforgettable horror films out there today in this genre debut which richly offers plenty of authentic scares, buckets of gore-soaked brutality, and even some dark humor on the side, too.
Delivering on its fundamental premise quite well to a near-ideal degree, The Evil Dead truly is a brilliant horror outing all around that is chock-full of undeniable thrills and inspired direction from Sam Raimi which would likewise continue on in his later works as well.
Unanimously a horror masterpiece and one of the great works of surrealism, The Evil Dead is a film of shocking gore and unabashed macabre beauty. Filmed on a meager budget around $350,000; Sam Raimi and company set out to make a simple film about a terrifying night set in a cabin in the woods. Both remarkably scary and ferociously paced, The Evil Dead is 85 minutes of splatter, foggy atmosphere, solid acting, and tremendous visual storytelling. While not as comedic or batshit insane as Evil Dead 2, It's arguably just as glorious. The raw film-making does show its age, but it isn't a huge determent on the film as a whole.
Bruce Campbell plays it straight in this one, as…
It was not as good as i thought i would be, regardless of it's good effects and makeup. Of course seeing this film in 1981 must have been terrorific, but not nowadays. The best thing about this movie is the remarkable makeup, it's so disturbing and the stop motion at the end, it's something very innovative, but the plot is neither excellent nor bad, it's just decent. 3.7
Thank god this came out in the 80’s because it’s amateur film techniques and low budget feel plays right into the campiness of that era.
Either way it was super cool to watch and I was thoroughly spooked the entire time.
This is the definition of a low budget movie. It was pretty good, and I enjoyed the style of it. I also liked the makeup and the practical effects, which fitted perfectly with said style. However, the characters weren’t too great, as I didn’t find myself caring about really any of them. The only one I was fond of was Ash, but I think that’s mainly because it’s Bruce Campbell. This film also gets pretty repetitive with both the plot and the scares, and I wish they explained the Book of the Dead a bit more just so I knew what the lore behind the story was. But overall, this was pretty fun and entertaining.
not a big fan of zombie movies this was pretty good tho. i like how the cameras move.
No puede ser considerada perfecta SÓLO por esa escena de los árboles.
La cinematografía … *cheff’s kiss*
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