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Summary: "we are gonna get you!" in an amusing predictable way
Review: Possibly the most unscary horror film ever made Sam Raimi makes rubbish horror films an art form.The lowest of the low budget, the most obvious shocks, seriously (...) acting and unbelievably bad dialogue brings together a terrific and entertaining film.
Bruce cambell heads the lame cast as Ash, a geeky sensible college student who thinks it would be a good idea to take his girlfriend and a few mates to an isolated cabin. Huge mistake! not only is his girlfriend too fridged to have sex with him but there are crazed demons on the loose. Released by Bruce's annoying prankster friend Scotty the demons are soon raping Linda (in the form of trees!) and doing David Blane style card tricks. The kids one by one play host to the evil dead which causes for some seriously repetative play dead gags and everyones favourite "it's ok i'm back to normall now" jokes.
nobody seems too bothered when linda starts hovering around the room speaking in deranged tongues it's only when she starts jabbing a pencil into Cambells girlfriend that they finally realise somethings up.So down to the cellar she goes where she remains for most of the film occasionaly growling in an evil type way and often grabbing at Bruce cambells feet. Throughout the film Cambell takes a hilarious hiding getting smashed into walls, bookshelves repeatably falling on him and his whole body getting cut up by the evil fingernails of the dead. At one point in the film Bruce is caught under a small chair and is unable to actually lift the thing off himself.Throughout the film there are gruesome puss dripping attacks on Cambell but only does he really scream out in horror when the mirror turns to water which in my opinion would be the least of my worries. Soon everyone has turned or been cut into several pieces with an axe except for for some unknown reason Bruce Cambell who seems imune to the demonic virus. So he reaches for the shotgun and does the only sensible thing and starts shooting randomly at the windows then stands at the open windows to get grabbed and mauled by the undead parasites. After alot of pulling and ripping he pulls off a john wayne style lasoo trick and doesn't really save the day.
It's horror at it's most gruesome and predictable with Bruce Cambell's facial expressions and stupid girls falling over lots when being chased that bring together a great cult horror film that you have to love in an evil undead kind of way.
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Summary: Evil what????????
Review: When I first saw this movie I thought I was gonna get the guts scared out of me. But instead I got some of the greatest laughs. The director made a pretty good movie out of such a (bad) plot. I think army of darkness (Evil Dead 3) was much better than this one. The gallons of blood was the thing that made this movie as good as it is. So you should gather your friends at midnight and get ready for some gore!
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Summary: MUST HAVE MUST HAVE!!!
Review: There are only two words to be said about this DVD MUST and HAVE, the cover artwork is amasing and the film itself couldnt't be better, it is truly a special edition, but be quick its rumoured that there are only 1000 being made because thay are all hand made. Thats it, go for the "add to my basket button"!!
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Summary: Low Budget But Delightful!
Review: I own this movie and I watch it quite often and you should own it to.Why?Its great!If you love horror you will love this.Not only the first in the Evil Dead series but the best.It did not have the comic trappings of the others.It did have a little humour but it was in many ways really good scares and gore done in a very creative way all on a very low budget.Its amazing they made something this good so cheap.Okay we all know Bruce Campbell(Ash)goes to stay at some cabin in the woods with some friends,his girlfriend,and his sister.They find the Necronomicon(for all you Lovecraft fans.)they then read from it which we all know is not the best ideal.Soon things are happening,scary and threatening things.The thing that makes it scary is that the woods in and of themselves are truly the land of the wild and are living with evil.One of the girls goes for a walk and some trees rape her.Okay that sounds terrible and shocking but its done pretty tastefully,well as tasteful as you can make a tree raping someone scene.It was definitely original.Soon everyone is freaking out and scared.Two of the girls are sitting down trying to see if they have any psychic abillities by guessing what card the other is holding up.A third girl is staring out the window.Soon she begins naming all the cards being held up at a fast rate,something is definitely not right going on here!Then her voice changes she turns around,her eyes are rolled back hands in claws,fangs!It is a truly scary moment the first time you watch it.Yes she is possessed by one of the elder beings from beyond time.I cant give alot away and ruin it for all of you who have never seen this but suffice to say never a dull moment from here lots of gore and lots of unique and unheard of stuff done with that gore.Yes I love Evil Dead and if you appreciate good horror you will to.
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Summary: The Evil Dead
Review: I'm a total fan of this movie, though I can't seem to come up with a satisfactory explanation why. I'll admit the acting is amateurish, the plot is ridicilous and the effects' well', but there's just something about 'The Evil Dead' that makes it a 5 star movie in my world. Maybe it's that weird low-budget charm, or the fact that Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi and the rest seem like such nice guys. I dunno.One thing's for sure, the numerous people out there calling this the scariest movie ever, really should watch more movies. Unlike it's sequels, this is actually meant to be scary, but fails in just about every way a movie can fail in that respect. Where it succeeds, however, is at entertaining. The plot goes something like this: Five teens, who for some reason find themselves in a remote cabin in the woods drinking berry drinks, accidentally play back a recording containing portions of the dreaded Book of the Dead, causing all hell to break loose. That's basically it. Exept this movie somehow manages to pull it off, through the combination of a great location, sheer imagination, and at times wildly inventive camera work (foreshadowing the excellent Evil Dead II). This movie was considered quite gory for it's time (1982 or thereabout), but the low-budget effects have lost most of their impact over the years. Or maybe I'm just being insensitive... This DVD has some nifty extras, including a huge still gallery, trailer, and 20 mins of hilarious alternate footage (plenty of demon-posessed growling here). The second commentary track, by Bruce Campbell, is a textbook example of how commentary tracks should be done. Informative, witty, and in some ways more entertaining than the movie itself, it's worth the price of the disc alone.
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Summary: The greatest horror movie ever!
Review: I'm not a big fan of horror movies. Especially if they conatain a plot about zombies. But after renting a copy of "Army of Darkness", the third in the "Evil Dead" series, I decided to go out and find a copy and see where the terror started. While not big on effects, this movie does what it can on its budget and is still standing after its initial late 1970s release. While its definetly not for the weaked stomached, it is a great film in its own right, and deserves to be in any film collector's collection.
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Summary: Evil Dead - A true classic
Review: Evil Dead - truly one of the best horror films ever made. This was the first horror film I ever watched, and what an excellent movie to start me off in the genre. The ample use of sudden scares and gore, with a creepy ambience that makes it seem at first that the movie will be a lot cheesier than it is, makes Evil Dead one of the best horror movies ever. When it starts, the grainy quality of the film hints that it might just be another horrible slasher film from the 70's or 80's, but Evil Dead transcends that and comes out to be a true classic, leading up to two more great movies, and in this way the Evil Dead trilogy almost mirrors George Romero's zombie trilogy, as far as opinion of the three movies. Watch it now.
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Summary: One of the best horror of all the times!!!
Review: Lock the doors,take the videocassete and push play.You will feel fear,old good fear,which any other new horror could not bring.We love it,our sons will love it and sons of our sons will love it too!!!
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Summary: this movie rocks
Review: hey, all. this is my fav. movie in the world its scary,kind of funny and cool. I saw this movie about 7 times now and i still think its great. the star of the movie is Bruce Campbell known as "Ash" in the story. I have ment Bruce Campbell in a book store a few days ago. the movie starts out when these people go to a cabin deep in the woods. the find a book, skull dagger, and a tape player in the cabins basment. they listin to the tape player and it relesise a evil,dark spirit or i should say a deadit. I would tell the hole movie but i dont want to give every thing away to people that never saw evil dead. you should allso watch evil dead 2 and army of darkness (evil dead 3) also you should try to play the evil dead video game. (buy it for computer and dream cast i dont recomind for playstation.) i have won this game and the ending isent that good. so i say buy this movie!!!!
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Summary: Evil Dead 2 & Army of Darkness far superior
Review: Okay, it's fine and a lot of hard work made much of a low budget. BUT Evil Dead 2 is FAAAAAAAAAAR Better! Not only that, Evil Dead 2 is pretty much a re-make, so it's a waste to see Evil Dead 1. Army of Darkness is even better than Evil Dead 1 or 2. So see those movies, and then, if you really MUST have more Evil Dead, buy the original last.
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