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a very scary film when you watch it the first time. the plot is original, the acting is realistic and altogether, it's really bloodthirsty.
i just have two problems with this movie:
the title: normally if there's a movie with a name like 'The Evil Dead', it's about zombies, yet this movie is about four people who get possessed by demons. so why this movie called 'The Evil Dead' when it should've been 'The Evil Little Devils', that would've been better.
strategy: if they accidentally released the demons to take on the souls of innocent people, why didn't they just go out into cities and pray on the living instead of just the friends in the cabin?
Posted By: YoungHorror at 1:11am, September 16, 2009
The best independent horror film ever made. Period. It is a B-Movie, and it shows, but in a very good way. Tons of good, gory fun, and the tree rape scene was amazing. Phenomenal movie
Posted By: SatinkMic at 8:27pm, September 10, 2009
do i really have to do a review for this one this my favorite movie of all times the whole evil dead trilogy is the best
Evil Dead (saga) is the best I've ever seen.
So I give it top rating.
Funny, mysterious, sometimes scary, sometimes odd, never ending turn-arounds, and lots of blood...
Only know FEAST (the first one and part of the 2nd) to be such a flicky, catching, and original idea.
The Evil dead is true horror at it's finest. Bruce and the team are truly wonderful. Let me start off my saying, despite it's age, this is one of the best looking and feeling horror movies to date. It makes Goerge A Romero impressed, with it's awesome creature effects and makeup, and gruesome deaths. I felt this movie was a treat, the picture is so well edited, the acting is top notch, and the plot is awesome. The scipt does not fail, the scipt feels as though it was actually thought through, not rushed like most horror movies of the time. I think why I really like this, is because it has the most fearsome looking possessed people in film history. The effects are stunning, even now. The makeup and sound of the possessed demos are cool, and the acting from the possessed is great, and makes you look away even looking at em'. Good gory action from start to finish, with brutal deaths and some amazing effects, as said before.
Overall, a worthy watch for any demon, horror gore loving fan. You will be pleased, and not dissapointed. Watch this movie as soon as possible.
despite what evrybody tells you on this site, this movie is not a zombie movie!!! it is a possession movie and nothing else!!! i dont get why people liked this movie so much, but i guess everybody is different in thier own way...
A definite classic! every fan of the genre must have this in their collection.
Posted By: horrorbuff28 at 11:31am, August 1, 2009
sam raimis "The Evil Dead" is absolutely amazing.
i enjoyed every single second of this horror classic.
it was scary, it was extremely bloody(maybe not as much blood as Dead Alive but basically on par)
this movie had it all.
dont even rent it, go and just buy it.
so many creative ideas in this horror movie that you just dont see anymore in any horror film.
I like the original Evil Dead but I don't feel it holds anything against it's nearly perfect sequel. it's a different film in tone and execution. And it's definitely a classic. It's chaotic and scary and Bruce Campbell is uber hot.
If you're looking for grotesqueness, scares, chills, thrills, mega loads of outrageous gore, and a brisk pacing you came to the right place. Not only is Evil Dead one of the scariest movies I've encountered on but it ranks as one of the best horror movies I've seen. Don't be fooled by the NC-17 rating, this is as grotesque and scary as grotesque and scary can get. I decided to check out this film, hence the positivity and I agree with everyone, that Sam is the man.
The film has a very brisk pacing. The frightening level comes abruptly without ruining the pace or flow of the film. The Deadites are hideous and are amazing horrific. The dialogue is certainly a treat and a breath of fresh air for public audiences and critics. I loved every line that blurted out of the character's mouths. The film was so insanely gruesome that it was mind boggling how even the new generation films don't match up to the brutality and intensity that is concealed within Evil Dead.
We are talking about gouged eyeballs, flying limbs, bodily dismemberment, disembowelment, and the list goes on. This is easily the scariest entry in the trilogy and the most enthralling. Shoot, even the film has originality which horrors lack today. The tree scene is the most obvious scene of originality. Don't be fooled by envisioning just another zombie movie because this is not it. It's original, intense, gritty, and brutal.
Overall, I loved everything about the Evil Dead. Everything from its brutality to its scares. It has everything you could possibly want from a horror movie and even surpasses your expectations. Definitely worth five skulls. Amazing. Just simply Amazing.
This is one of the films that really got me into Horror, it's definitely a great gateway film for people new to the genre.
It's also my favorite of the trilogy. The others were much more comedic, and this one does has some quirkiness in there, but it's mostly straight up Horror.
Great gore, atmosphere, and some genuinely creepy scenes...SEE IT!
quite possible my favorite movie of all time. it's definitely up there! i love the whole trilogy but this is my absolute favorite. has its fair share of blood and gore :)
What a great flick, your watching it and the whole time you laughing. It starts out really creepy and then descends into pure madness, this was probably one of the great stepping stones for the modern horror movie> Bruce Campbell is an under rated actor whop brings so much to the table in terms of performances. This was the begging of the Evil Dead Legacy.
Not quite perfect but it's still a classic held near and dear to my heart. More of an Evil Dead II fan, but who could ever turn down the film that started it all?
This is where horror took a new and bold direction. After watching this masterpiece of unrelenting terror and claustrophobia, you will be surprised to find that many modern directors have borrowed heavily from Sam Raimi's bag of visual tricks.
Arguably one of the best horror films of all time, Evil Dead stands head and shoulders above many of its peers (and even many modern horror attempts for that matter) in pacing, scares, and let's not forget the all too important gore quotient, which this movie has in spades.
Another treat within the film are Sam Raimi's numerous homages to the legendary comedy team The Three Stooges (basement scene near the end of the film). The subsequent sequels are dynamite entertainment, but they were played more for laughs than sheer terror.
But I leave you with this: If you've never seen this movie, I highly recommend that you do. This is one of the very best.
Posted By: TheOutcast05 at 11:02pm, March 21, 2009
"we need to bury her" "but she's our friend"
How is it, that a movie filmed almost 30 years ago, with a a budget that even todays b-movies would laugh at, is still one of the best horror flicks ever made? Great suspense, acting, story, effects, keeps you uneasy the entire time.. I jumped at one time, I never jump in horror movies! Even the legendary tree-rape scene was great (and like most scenes called disturbing at the time, its pretty tame nowadays).. This foreshadowed Raimi's directing ability, and Cambell's soon to be status as THE B-Movie king..
Shockingly one of the best horror movies ever made, nothing in this day and age can compare to this display of madness of gore and demons. This is one movie that will have a tendency to be talked about 50 years from now, its that good, Damn Good!
Sam Raimi will NEVER top this masterpiece. It took me a little while to see it, I always heard people talking about Evil Dead and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Sure enough it was great, I wish i would have watched it sooner. A classic that deserves 5 skulls.
Posted By: Necronatalusz at 12:51am, February 23, 2009
Evil Dead is one of my top 5 favorite horror movies and all time favorite movies ever,
it was scary, creepy, and got under your skin.
it made you wonder how they were able to get the shots they did going through the words and how someone could be transformed into a deadite like that.
and bruce campbell is amazing.
I Love Evil Dead!!!
Posted By: AshWilliams95 at 8:27am, December 23, 2008
I thought that evil dead is the best horror movie ever made.
Storyline: 5 friends go into a cabin and discover a tape in the basement they play it unknowingly awakening evil spirits that soon posses a few of the group. Ash is the only sane one left and has to fight his way through all this madness. 10/10
Acting: Fan-fucking-tastic. 10/10
Special Effects: Even though this movie had a low budget I thought the effects were very wonderful and I still do to this day. I just love the low budget effects for some strange reason. 10/10
Best Scene: TREE RAPING SCENE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10/10
Ending: AWESOME like the rest of the movie.
Overall evil dead is my favourite horror movie of all time and will never be defeated. Hail to the king baby. :P
When I was a kid this film was the most talked about in the playground with everyone saying "have you seen Evil Dead ? woman gets raped by a tree". I remember first seeing the cover of this movie with the woman being dragged under and pictures of the undead on the back and thinking it looked nasty as hell and I wasn't wrong. This film had soared to legendary status so when the parents were away I watched it and yes, A WOMAN GETS RAPED BY A TREE !!!! One of the most craziest , bloodiest and out of control horrors i've ever seen. Besides the now infamous tree scene the one with 'the pencil' will linger in your head too. This is a movie not for the squeamish at all. Love the low budget-ness of this frantic movie. A classic for sure alongside TCM and Halloween. Too bad Sam Raimi sold out to make stoopid Spiderman movies.
Posted By: GOREGRINDwp13 at 8:34pm, December 3, 2008
A great blood soaked film with some humor.
buy it now if u dont have it
Wonderful... I can't believe it took me so fucking long to see this. I remember staring at this on the wall in the video rental stores back when I was a tot and never once did I try it until 20 some years later. What a masterpiece, gory, terrifying imagery, and a great concept. This is a classic and a must for the collection.
Posted By: kaicooper at 10:57pm, November 23, 2008
so Classic .. So Scary .. So Gore .. So Gri8 ..keep it up..nobody can gives u low rating .. cus simply u r the best
Posted By: draculaghost at 9:43pm, November 2, 2008
Amazing film. I did think that the acting was surprisingly good, for Sam and Bruce's first feature film. The whole idea of the Book of the Dead was fantastic. Gore was great, and the film itself was fucking fantastic. This will remain one of my favorite horror films of all time. Strongly recommended for anyone who hasn't already seen it. Hell, if you've seen it before, Watch It Again!!
Posted By: bIGdADDIEhENRY at 12:35pm, September 20, 2008
I was like ten or 11 the first time I saw evil dead. It freaked me out back then and confused me. I didn't understand why a woman got attacked by a fucking tree or why Ash said, "we can't burry Shelly....she's a friend of ours." But when I rewatched it in high school, then in college, and after college, it just keeps getting more awesome-er (yes I did say awesome=er). The trilogy is the only flawless trilogy out there in cinema as far as I am concerned.
RH
Posted By: Darkened Soul at 12:50pm, September 14, 2008
I remember the first time I watched The Evil Dead. And I must say it was one of the moments when I was utterly speechless and amazed at what I had just witnessed. The entire movie was frightening from beginning to end. It also had a few moments that might be considered comical. But overall it was a spectacular gore fest that any true horror fan would love. I also found myself watching it again and again. Maybe it's because of the fact that I live in East Tennessee not too far from where the movie was filmed. Or maybe, it's just because it was an amazing film that will stand the test of time for generations to come.
My favourite and the best horror film ever made. If you haven't already seen it watch the original *uncut* version. Think *pencil* and you will know what I mean!
Let me be blunt: I ignored this movie with my life for years because I assumed it was just another cheesy zombie movie that would amount to nothing more than yet another night of boredom that I’d end up falling asleep to. I LOVE zombie video games, but I have never once seen a zombie movie that could fulfill that awesomeness and utter zombie carnage that games like Dead Rising and Resident Evil did. Until I saw The Evil Dead, I assumed it was simply impossible to put that much awesomeness that zombie games have on film. Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead both bored me, were pathetic, and couldn’t come close to filling that hole that zombie games put in my heart. So, why would I want to watch something like The Evil Dead?
I only watched it because one of my favorite critics, Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation, suggested it. To my shock, The Evil Dead is the first and only zombie movie I have ever enjoyed. Ever.
Unlike boring George A. Romero films—
The amount of punk carnage was not toned down, much like the games I love. The characters actually have some personality and had something to say other than: “Oh, God, zombies!” over and over again. They didn’t bother to ask what is going on, giving them a sense of self-aware realism. This movie was also purely for ENTERTAINMENT. Let me repeat myself: ENTERTAINMENT. Do half the directors/writers out there even know what that world means? There was no brainless social commentary we’ve heard since we were old enough to pee on our own, as seems to be included in every movie ever made by law or something. I think that is why I like Sam Raimbi so much, because he clearly states that his movies are for ENTERTAINMENT (I’m going to put that in all caps from now on in hopes some random director who stumbles on this will remember what it means) and not for retarded critical acclaim or some pointless social commentary.
As for the violence, for an 80’s movie, it was freaking childishly amazing! This is the kind of stuff I’d dream about as a little boy. Some of the gore effects were hard to look at because they were insanely outdated, but they were few and far between. At times, they even added to the cheese atmosphere. This is just as violent as modern horror movies like 30 Days of Night and The Hills Have Eyes remake, if you can look past the armature blood effects. (I’m mainly referring to the lack of decent blood on the severed limbs/heads.)
Also, the cheesy disturbing factor added to it. But unlike modern horror movies—like Mirrors—there was no cheap cliché scares. The clichés that were there this movie created, which I can ignore. The idea of being raped by trees was pretty original and laughably disturbing, in a good way, as well. Also, the idea of zombies that . . . umm, shape-shifted—is that what they did?—was both original and just awesome. I’m not even sure I’d call them zombies as much as vampire-evil-doll-clown-zombie-demon . . . things.
Overall, this gave me a new hope that zombie movies could be truly amazing and gory. This really is THE best zombie movie EVER. Why? Because it remembers ENTERTAINMENT.
What more can I say?
Posted By: thedescent08 at 7:12pm, August 26, 2008
There is no need for me to give a detailed review of this movie because if you're on this web site you've likely seen it. If you haven't, just go out and buy it. The Evil Dead is hands down among the best horror ever made, it makes my personal top five list easy. Though it starts off slow, and lacks the comedic value of its sequels it just has something special about it. Whatever that something is I love it. Save for ED2 everything else Raimi has produced is crap, Spiderman included. At least we got this gem out of him first.
"What more can be said of Raimi's legendary cult-classic that hasn't already been beaten to death like a puss-oozing zombie that crosses paths with Ash? Possibly nothing, but I'll try.
Before Spiderman and before the countless spin-offs of this movie were made or even conceived, Raimi and friends decided to make a low budget zombie flick mainly for fun, and surprisingly it has become a masterpiece of shock and horror. Possibly a perfect example of how to make an entertaining film on a shoe-string budget, The Evil Dead delivers what it promises, the ultimate in grueling horror. Even with it's mild budget and sometimes shaky acting, TED shocks and spooks the audience through chilling atmosphere and some of the most violent effects ever put on film. Those who are squeamish need not apply. As a matter of fact, just run for your girly life.
There are several reasons this film succeeds. First, Raimi's camera work is truly masterful. By using fast camera work and aggressive shots, Raimi has created an eerie world that is sometimes hard to look at but too entertaining to turn away from. His style from behind the camera is absolutely unmistakable. This is perfectly exemplified in the beginning of the film, where the camera alone creates enough atmosphere to leave you biting your nails in suspense of what's to come. You feel at any moment someone is going to get their neck chomped on by some zombie hiding just out of view. One of the most impressive openings I can think of, perfection in pacing and atmosphere. It gets even better once the action starts. Some shots hold for a seeming eternity, and part of you wishes for it to stop for it's unrestrained gore and violence...but the other part of you is getting a sick kick out of it. One of the most impressive shots is where the darkness from the trees begins to chase people, knocking any tree or obstacle down that happens to be in it's way. Truly magnificent technique, however they did it.
TED also succeeds because it's self-aware of the fact that it's a simple zombie movie and never takes itself too seriously, and doesn't expect the audience to do so either. It's meant to be campy, cheesy, revolting and chilling at the same time. There are moments in the film where it seems to be making fun of itself and the genre in general. For this fact alone, one cannot hold certain things against it such as sometimes questionable acting from the supporting cast and sometimes the downright implausibility of certain situations. If you can accept this and you're not put off by mannequin ultra-violence, then you should find yourself on the supporter's side of the fence. I think some don't like it because it can be ridiculous and cheesy in parts, although it was meant to be. Even with the fact that it's sometimes cheesy, there are some downright chilling moments in this film that most horror films nowadays cannot begin to muster. Case in point, the zombie screaming from the cellar door. The zombie growls and howls themselves are enough to send shivers up one's spine. And let's not forget the unforgettable tree love scene, ridiculous and hilarious simultaneously.
Last but certainly not least: Bruce Campbell as Ash, the badass of all zombie films. Campbell is Ash, period, and always will be.
In my opinion, this is by far the best of the trilogy, and although there could have been more of the chainsaw, this is the definitive zombie film and probably always will be. I feel it succeeds over it's sequels due to it's increased violence and lack of humor in comparison. It's blood, gore, camera work, and shock factor are still formidable even today and are what make this such a cult classic. If you've ever liked any horror film, this is an absolute must-see.
Love or hate it, there it is." -- Manthorpe, imdb.com
Tied with 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' as being the best horror film of the eighties, and is certainly among the most definitive horror classics of all time that accomplishes so incredibly much with so little.
