September 8, 2009
King of the video nasties, Evil Dead is horror at its finest!
Betsy Baker, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss
In the fall of 1979, Sam Raimi and his merry band headed into the woods of rural Tennessee to make a movie. They emerged with a roller coaster of a film packed with shocks, gore, and wild humor, a fil...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 19, 1999
Stats: 8,655 reviews
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September 6, 2009Sam Raimi is currently getting a lot of attention and acclaim for directing the over-hyped blockbuster 'Spider-Man'. That movie has introduced him to mainstream filmgoers, no bad thing in itself, but to many of us Raimi is already a legend, because he created 'The Evil Dead', wit...( read more)
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March 17, 2009Sam Raimi makes his debut with this disgusting, gory gory gory GORY GORY (wow I love repeating words and then using ALL CAPS a lot lately) movie.
Acting sucked (except Bruce Campbell - he rules) and the script wasn't anything special, but Raimi does a great job with cinematograp...( read more) -
March 2, 2009i wondered how this film had aged but it's still highly inventive considering the budget limitations. the cheese fits the mood and bruce keeps you interested. join us!!!!!
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November 11, 2008''I know now that my wife has become host to a Candarian demon. I fear that the only way to stop those possessed by the spirits of the book is through the act of... bodily dismemberment.''
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-p...( read more) -
November 18, 2009A perfect example of how you don't need a lot of money to make a great horror movie. Yes it's campy and ridiculous, but that's what makes you fall in love with it. The kooky camera angles and over-the-top gore make it such an original and landmark piece in the genre.
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November 16, 2009One of the greatest low budget horror movies (only losing out to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Halloween) Evil Dead is relentless after its first half an hour. Gore galore as the malevolent dead are dismembered piece by piece. I'll take this low grade schlock over Raimi's Spide...( read more)
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November 10, 2009pelicula de culto, a mi parecer muy buena, sobre todo para las fechas en ke se realizó.
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November 8, 2009Hay muchas cintas en el subgenero de la cabaña en el bosque, donde un grupo de adolescentes se enfrenta a terribles males; pero ninguna se compara a "The Evil Dead" de Sam Raimi, una cinta de horror de muy bajo presupuesto que cuenta con algunas de las secuencias mas perturbadora...( read more)
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November 3, 2007You should try and get a copy of Bruce's book 'If Chins Could Kill' - it's got a lot of great behind-the-scenes and general making-of chapters of Evil Dead. Most of the cameras were nailed onto small planks of wood and ran with to achieve the 'chased-by-spirits' scenes but really does make the film even more interesting to watch after you notice everything.
Oh, if you buy the special version in the form of the 'Book of the Dead' (cost me £7 in a sale), you get a free copy of his bank robbery film 'Running Time' inside. The cover is spongey and the inside is paper with an introduction, art from the actual films' Necronomicon, a booklet and the two movie. Was well worth it. -
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August 18, 2007Ash gets taken over (as you said) in the second one. But he cuts part of his arm off to stop from being totally possesed. Wich explains why he has a chainsaw for an arm!
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July 29, 2007
Does ash get taken over at the end of the first one? Cause if he does how does he come back in the sequels?
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April 1, 2007ok thanks 4 telling me now i get why he gets hit from the thing in the woods again
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March 20, 2007He didn't go back, it's a sequel set directly after this happens. Okay, so the first ten minutes are partly a remake - they suggest that Ash only came with his girlfriend. But do you *really* think he'd be dumb enough to come back?
Having said that, he is quite dim...
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