The Evil Dead (The Evil Dead (DVD))

Member Name: sharktrager

Product:	The Evil Dead (DVD)
Date:	01/01/02 (44 review reads)
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Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Wooden acting, Too much violence, Too much gore

Originally released almost 20 years ago, THE EVIL DEAD went through many years of being censored and banned in the UK, and has only recently been allowed to be shown (even on TV) in it's full uncut form.

Now, I don't believe in censorship. I don't believe in banning movies. But I do believe in SELF-censorship - that is, deciding NOT to do something, and I think that self-censorship is something that the makers of THE EVIL DEAD should have done before making it.

In the 1980s the film was known as the Number 1 'Video Nasty', and it IS nasty. It is violent, gory, and not at all humorous, despite it's reputation for being a comedy-horror.

All in all, it's a very unpleasant film and definately not one that I want to see again. Bruce Campbell, who plays the main character (called Ash) has become something of a star in the science-fiction/fantasy/horror genre and mainly it is due to this film (and its 2 sequels). Unfortunately he doesn't deserve this fame, at least not based on THE EVIL DEAD. His acting is very wooden, but then I guess the idea was that no-one would be watching the movie for his acting, they would be watching it for the blood and gore.

I certainly won't be watching it again.

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