The Evil Dead (DVD)

The Evil dead is the movie that got me into horror. The storyline seems pretty simple but it is deep and interesting, especially for a horror movie. The acting is good and my favourite thing about the movie is how the effects are done. There is no CGI crap. Everything looks very realistic and that is what makes this one of the best horror movies ever made.( I rate it above The Omen movies and The Exorcist) The DVD version has lots of extra features but the video version has nothing wrong with it. The film does not really seem too dated and it has a great overall feel to it that i can not describe. It mixes horror, suspsense and a little gore to make it what it is. My ...  Read the complete review

What would you class The Evil Dead as? Its not a straight horror film, sure there are scares but in between are nodding references to how silly horror films can be. So its probably best to say that it is a comedy horror, whichever it is closest to, comedy or horror, it does well on both counts. The Evil Dead has had a colourful past. Originally entitled ‘The Book of the Dead’ the distributors wanted something a bit more meaty and so Evil Dead was born. Written and directed by Sam Raimi his full-scale debut is considered by many to be his best piece of work. He made an early film ‘Within The Woods’ to help fund The Evil Dead. You ...  Read the complete review

The Evil Dead was Sam Raimi's first commercial movie, and was based on a Super-8 movie that he and college friend Bruce Campbell created named Within the Woods. The movie was hugely successful, despite being shot by virtual amateurs on a miniscule budget, and soon became highly regarded as one of the finest horror movies ever made. Steven King reportedly loved it to bits. In the UK, it became one of the very first 'video nasties' and was only ever released in a heavily censored form to rent or buy. The movie tells the story of 5 college kids who travel to stay in a deserted cabin in the woods somewhere in Michigan - Ash, his sister Cheryl, his ...  Read the complete review

Five friends, Ash, Cheryl, Scott, Linda and Shelly, go on a trip to a deserted cabin in the woods. Within hours of having arrived, Cheryl is visited by an evil spirit who takes control of her hands while she is drawing. Cheryl later decides that someone is watching them from the woods and goes outside to investigate - while there, she is attacked by tree roots and branches, but manages to get away, returning sobbing to the cabin. The others all think she is making things up, but eventually Ash agrees to drive her to the nearest town. Before long, however, it is clear that Cheryl is right and something is definitely after them - and at least one of those somethings is in ...  Read the complete review

Filmed on a super-8 nearly 30 years ago, eight college students made this cheap horror film hoping to show it around campus and make a few extra bucks on the side. What they didnt know is that they were going to make and produce one of the best horror films of the last 50 years. Two of those students were Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, they evetually decide to drop out of college and they dound the amazing talented Bruce Campbell and showed him the script to the then titled 'The Book of the Dead'. After the film was made the rest is histroy. The film revolves around a group of five college students who are going to stay in a remote cabin in the forest. When ...  Read the complete review