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…

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…

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…