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.
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…
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.
The Evil Dead is fucking gross!!
Sam Raimi knows exactly what he wants to do here. He creates quite a raw, gross-out horror flick with the sole intention of startling you with grotesque scenes. This is a very fast-paced movie about five teenagers who take a vacation in a cabin in the woods and are soon, one by one, possessed by demons after one of them plays a recording of ancient incantations. It’s not scary by today’s standards, but it’s quite an entertaining horror.
The movie gets its engine revved up from the get-go, unsettling you with the ominous demonic presence in the first scene. Raimi employs a range of horror film techniques to shock the audience. From the effective…
I watched Evil Dead for the first time in my early teens and I remember being both scared and in awe. It wasn't like anything I had ever seen before and I'm overcome with that same awe every time I watch it. While I enjoy Evil Dead 2 it doesn't have the same effect on me (and I find Army of Darkness a little annoying). This is by far THE movie to watch in the trilogy.
Most of you have seen this so I won't feel bad for including some spoilers (if you haven't seen it, stop reading now). I love that there's a "final guy" as opposed to the typical "final girl" but I've always wondered how Ash avoided…
Awesome to see it in 35mm at a drive in.
Not awesome that I was not prepared for the cold, late night, or drunk inbreds in front of us.
Saturday night of Zombiefest III kicked off with the original and still the best. Sam Raimi and company showed how to do low budget horror with some most impressive practical gore and makeup effects. And the thing that I picked up on this viewing was the creepily effective sound design. The mocking laughs of those Kandarian demons gives me the willies! 35mm
We're going to get you. We're going to get you. Not another peep. Time to go to sleep.
Thank you. I don't know what I would have done if I had remained on those hot coals, burning my pretty flesh. You have pretty skin.
The Evil Dead has got to be one of the most 80s movies ever made. The dialogue, the camera circles and zooms and chops, the sounds and score. Only in the 80s could people have sick hair and stay semi-relaxed while the nature around them mysteriously and terrifyingly converts their best friends into ravenous undead creatures. Only in the 80s could this film be made this well and remain so marvelous today.
Gory and greatly grotesque, The Evil Dead drowns itself in blood, stabs its characters with devastating death, and claws its way into…
This movie is absolutely bonkers. It's great. Sam Raimi created what he wanted to create. It is very impressive that this was made as well as it was, considering the low budget. The novelty of it all is whays so popular about it. I've never seen anything like this before. I can't wait to check out its two sequels!
I enjoy watching this film so much! It's creepy, gory and all on a budget.
Although I really don't get the tree raping scene which is like tentacle porn but non-consensual..so yea.
But it is a cult classic and a masterpiece of film making on a 350,000 USD budget. The return being over 2.6 million USD at the box office, so well worth the investment. And of course Bruce Campbell is amazing..
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