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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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MCT:May 8, 2008
Great horror flick. I never found this movie funny but most did. I think the director realized this and made the sequels(if you want to call them that) Horror/comidies.
The picture shown here kinda reminds me of Slayer's Live Undead album. Dunno why. -
MCT:May 8, 2008It really is creepy. Make sure you watch this film during daylight hours. Those with a nervous disposition should avoid.
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MCT:May 7, 2008Instead of being dark or creepy, I was laughing at the horrible special effects. I mean these are bad. The tree rape was hilariously awful, the demons looked like make-up caked clowns, and the setting isn't creepy at all. Watch for laughs only.
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MCT:May 6, 2008For a film that was made on a budget that would make Steven Spielberg die laughing, "Evil Dead" was one for the most interesting pieces of horror cinema I've ever seen. I watched the series backwards, so "Army of Darkness" was the film I saw first, then "Evil Dead II." While "Evil Dead II" is probably still my favorite, it was interesting to see where it all started.
The camera work is incredibly good, and the fast motion sequences showing the demon's approach was pretty well done, if not completely original. Though also interesting, and kinda funny to note is that we see the characters running away, but when the camera switches away from the demon's view, we don't see the demon, and that seems like a touch of genius...we know it's there, but we can't see it, and while it probably was a limitation of the budget, it actually proved to be a great method of suspense.
The special effects are as laughable as they were in the rest of the series, but there's something to be said for a film that takes its chances and goes to the extreme in lieu of lacking resources. People complain about this a lot, but I have to say to them "get a sense of humor." The whole point of the "Evil Dead" series was to mock horror films and show how campy they were and that they could get even worse. It's humor is in that the film tries to take itself seriously, but the lack of a big budget makes this not only impossible, but even funny in spite of the fact that it could conceivable be a serious film.
The acting is also terrible, but again in that way that it's so obviously bad that it's hard to tell were the actors just plain bad or were they doing that deliberately to serve the purpose of mocking the genre. Bruce Campbell's introduction into the world of abused heroes is interesting since his character is actually less of a chauvinist in this one than he ultimately became famous for. But it works, and the horror on his face when his friend has no reservations about chopping up his possessed girlfriend is actually believable.
Overall, this movie is a great piece of cinema. It's humorous, but serious as well, and its greatest strength is its ability to draw the line between being part of the genre and mocking it. There are plenty of moments of original horror (I don't think anybody could keep their composure during the "Tree Rape" scene, which they repeated to lesser effect in "Evil Dead II," but let's face it that movie was supposed to be a rehash and extension). Give the film a chance and don't take it too seriously. Otherwise you're missing the point. -
MCT:May 5, 2008
possibly the only scary movie i enjoy watching over and over again
if you havent watched it - you are missing out
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TheDemonHunterposted 191 days ago -
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Ash 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!
posted 267 days ago -
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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ok thanks 4 telling me now i get why he gets hit from the thing in the woods again
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He 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...posted 419 days ago -
i dont get how ash goes back their in number 2 with someone else and i think that ending should have been done better besides that is was just as good as the sequel
posted 426 days ago
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