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AlexanderZ says...

8 years ago

The Evil Dead is what most, if not all horror movies should be, very real and powerful.

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DRNKMNKY says...

9 years ago

Hands down: one of the scariest movies I've ever seen! After watching it alone at night and with the curtains shut, you know what I'm talking about...

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manicure says...

2 years ago

Boring as hell, but quite impressive given the budget and resources they had. The camerawork and editing have a very distinguishable taste, but everything has been remade with more money and a more comedic approach in the sequel.

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Whitsbrain says...

2 years ago

I understand that the "Evil Dead" is considered a horror classic but it's not a scary film or a particularly good one. I can give high marks to some of the special effects namely the stop-motion stuff. The camera positioning and moving shots were impressive at times. The tape of the professor explaining the "Book of the Dead" was interesting and setup the potential horror to come. But once the first possession of one of the girls occurred any additional scares that could have been conjured up within the story were overwhelmed by campy "grueling" gore which is pretty much repeated for the last half of the movie. Yes I like Bruce Campbell's Ash and his character will become a horror legend in the next entry in the Evil Dead trilogy.

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baruchin says...

one year ago

Being a low budget movie with limited resources is no excuse to make it a cult movie. The movie is just bad. Bad acting, bad fx, bad audio, it's just stupid. I've watched low budget movies much better made that this crap. I really can't understand why this movie is so loved. I get that it brings good memories from old times, but even that doesn't make movie a cult movie.

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10 months ago

@baruchin Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.

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Xiofire says...

2 years ago

An absolutely unhinged fever dream of a movie that dances back and forth over the lines of torture porn, satire and comedy like it's had a few too many to drink. A descent into madness with some of the most over-the-top prosthetics and B-movie effects you'll ever see. I can see _why_ it's a cult classic, but for a new viewer like me, this was just absolutely too chaotic and silly to be truly enjoyable. Wild, too wild.

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LarZieJ says...

5 years ago

That damned book inked in human blood and bound in human flesh is just one bad motherfucker right?

Anyway this one is the horror part of the Evil Dead trilogy as the others move on to a more Horror/Comedy style. The low budget feel, the innovate camera movements, the birth of Ash, the gore, the atmosphere, those damn possessed trees, the amounts of blood being spilled and that awesome looking stop-motion near the end.

Sam Raimi started his career off good here. I love those early independent horror films. They have some kind of charm and Evil Dead is one of the best. If you haven't seen this trilogy yet, what are you waiting for! Hoop-tober is the perfect time for it.

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Leco says...

9 years ago

Well, maybe it's just me, kicking the hornet's nest and all, but it doesn't appeal that much for me. I do understand the cult status it got, though. I myself have seen it as a child and a lot of images got stuck on my head and that's my main point for checking it out again. The final 20 min or so concentrates a lot of decent camerawork, before the last moments they're more scattered through the scenes.

Being a low-budget flick and having in mind the gore it intended, I get its flare.

After this rewatching thing, gonna do it right and head to the latter movies, for everything I remember more vividly about Evil Dead, from my childhood, came from the other two.

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melma721 says...

9 years ago

Bruce Campbell is perfection. Enough said.

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Lucandore says...

9 years ago

I think this movie would be better if it were comedy like Army Of Darkness, at least I would laugh a little. But, i don't like horror movies, not because it's scary, I just don't like the pace of the movie, it's like "wait and you'll get scared" but in the mean time I get sleepy, I slept during the first Exorcist movie (the original old version) and since then i don't watch a lot of horror movies, and for me to be watching a Cult horror movie it's obvious that I would rate with a lower rate than someone who does.

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CatyAlexandre says...

11 years ago

This was my first time watching The Evil Dead. I watched the remake a few months back, it didn't impressed me and I already watched Evil Dead II, which I absolutely loved!

Sam Raimi did a fantastic work all over again! The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II have all of the requirements for a perfect horror film. Everything about them is horrible to watch, the atmosphere is so creepy so intimidating and you really can get scared! Both are amazing but I have to admit that I liked Evil Dead II a little bit more than this one. Let's see what I'll think about Army of Darkness.

Oh...and I forgot one thing, Bruce Campbell you are awesome!

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csrz says...

3 years ago

Tom Sullivan flexing for an hour and a half.

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Dylan Grears says...

3 years ago

I have recently got back into watching horror movies, I remember being terrified when watching this movie almost 20 years ago for the first time as a kid. It was the first ‘demonic’ kind of flick I’d seen, I watched pretty much all the cult horror films but the Evil Dead was the one that kept me up at night.

I have started to re-watch all the cult classics and The Evil Dead, is right at the top for me.. Sam Raimi’s imagination is something else.

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Winchesterz says...

3 years ago

Ok first time i watched this movie so funny the tree rape scene wtf :D
But was just ok some horror effects where preety cool and some more distgusting then in stuff like ash vs evil dead :D

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Whitsbrain says...

4 years ago

I understand that the "Evil Dead" is considered a horror classic, but it's not a scary film or a particularly good one. I can give high marks to some of the special effects, namely the stop-motion stuff. The camera positioning and moving shots were impressive at times. The tape of the professor explaining the "Book of the Dead" was interesting and setup the potential horror to come. But once the first possession of one of the girls occurred, any additional scares that could have been conjured up within the story were overwhelmed by campy, "grueling" gore which is pretty much repeated for the last half of the movie. Yes, I like Bruce Campbell's Ash and his character will become a horror legend in the next entry in the Evil Dead trilogy.

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AndrewBloom says...

4 years ago

[8.0/10] This one, as the kids say, still slaps. Still so impressive what Raimi and company were able to accomplish with a shoestring budget, some down home pluck, and buckets of blood.

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