This movie, made by director Sam Raimi in 1982, is surprisingly good. Raimi managed to put together a fine and at time frightening film despite a very low budget and minimel experience. The film involves five teenagers who go to have a lovely time in a spooky old cabin in the middle of nowhere. During their stay an ancient evil is released and attacks them causing mayhem to ensue in the popular and typical horror movie fashion. The evil dead are given life and license to possess the living when passages from "The Book Of The Dead" are spoken aloud. Of course, those wacky teenagers play a recording of the passages (which leads to the question of who is more stupid: the guy who recorded to phrases, or the people playing the tape), and the evil is released.
This film has fairly decent acting with cult favorite Bruce Campbell as the stand out. The whole cast gives this film a lot of edge and originality. Of all the scenes in the movie, I felt the "tree rape" sequence was the most intriguing. (You'll just have to watch the film to know what I mean.) Sam Raimi's camera work is incredible as always, and the moviedelivers high on the quality gore scale. By quality I mean it's not the useless blood and guts everywhere... somehow, the gore adds to how scary and evil the evil dead really are. Despite all of this, the film isn't the best I've ever seen, but it is just good clean scary fun. |
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