Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Cortechba Overrated

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Osmosis Iron The first of the "Evil Dead" trilogy, and the one with the lowest budget and also the only straight up horror flick of the series. The low budget forced Raimi and co to get creative and basically invent some new techniques on the way. But what they ended up creating is not "just good for low budget" it's REALLY good for horror in general! That "tree scene" alone is unforgettable!

WubsTheFadger Short and Simple ReviewThe plot is full of clichés but since this is an older movie it may seem original. The story is kind of intriguing but it is still a little weak. The pacing in the movie is very slow in the beginning but picks up towards the end.The acting is overdone. Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, Betsy Baker, and Sarah York perform on the standard of old horror films. All in all, the acting feels old in a bad way.The gore is the best part. The amount of creative uses of gore is great. From melting scenes to grotesque monsters, this film does a great job at making gore seem fresh and unique.Pros: Great use of gore, suspenseful third act, and a semi intruding storyCons: Outdated acting, slow pacing in the beginning, and a cliché storyOverall Rating: 7.1

Foreverisacastironmess When I first ever watched this, I was just left kind of bewildered and queasy-headed because the endless barrage of over the top screaming and chaotic action was a bit overwhelming, it was quite the "gruelling" experience indeed.. But on subsequent viewings years later I really grew to love this movie and appreciate its place in cinematic horror history as an important landmark of which the influence has been quite profound and it's among my favourites now. It just has a lot of what I personally tend to go for in a good fun horror movie; it's fast and doesn't stop once it really gets going, it's has loads or rich eerie little touches and is brimming with the most fantastic classically scary atmosphere, I mean being set in a secluded cabin in the desolate woods in the middle of nowhere on a dark and stormy night, it's got one of the best kinds of atmospheres that a horror fan could wish for, and that cabin and those woods were a perfect setting as well as a pitch-perfect setup for when the really crazy demonic s**t starts to go down. All of that stuff is incredibly well established and built up before it actually starts to happen. It has characters that you actually feel for a little, Eileen Sandweiss' rising hysterics as Shelly who somehow can sense that they've unleashed something terrible upon themselves by hearing the incantation is very effective until she's the first to get possessed, and Bruce Campbell was so young and wet around the ears, the Ash in this is a bit of a wimp until he starts trying to fight back after he gets put through he wringer, and boy does he ever! It also has a lot of over the top splatter gore especially at the end when everything's all crooked and he gets hosed down by the blood pipe and the projector turns red and explodes, all the gore is used really well. You can tell it's a low budget picture but it just works such wonders with the mood and camera-work that the grunginess and bare-bones aspect of it just adds to the overall feel, and like with a lot of the cult horror classics from back in the day, the quality and charm shines through the dingy cracks and it all works out so amazingly well despite itself. Again once it starts rolling and they're all completely f****d after hearing the tape recorder's forbidden words of certain doom, it becomes a real ride into madness and terror, but it also always has a good sense of fun about it too somehow, people die and get dismembered but it never comes off as too much of a sickening horror movie, with the possible exception of THAT scene! In the exuberance of its more lively moments there's a certain subtle knowing goofiness there. But it's still way more of a serious horror movie than the second and third movies, and I personally think it's better than them for that. The possessed are so cool, I love how automatically demented and vicious they are, far from being mere angry unquiet spirits, these vile entities really do seem like utterly insane toxic dead souls from some unimaginable nether-hell who's only care is spreading death and destruction! My favourite malicious corpse is Linda, her giggling and clown-like facial distortions are so creepy and in comparison to the other demon zombies which are mostly mindlessly violent she/it is more a jovial sort who is so happy to be among the corporeal once again after an eternity of ancient slumber, although when push comes to shove she's just as bloodthirsty! I love the explosive use of stop motion effects work used in the climax as the demons dissolve into green putrescence as the dreaded book burns. It does look crude and even kind of s**tty, but is still more importantly an awesome blast at the same time, not unlike the movie as a whole really! This movie is to this day such a glorious horror romp and it still has the same raw visceral and spooky macabre magic that deservedly made it into a beloved classic, one that is positively to die for! X

Tweetienator Naturally, I should wait till I write my review number 666, but it would take too long ;)Sam Raimi's Evil Dead and Evil Dead II belong like Romero's Dawn of the Dead to the great (forbidden fruits, I was too young to watch those pieces officially but I did it anyway - I dare to say that my bad VHS copy of a VHS copy of a copy made the movie even more "devilish" and precious to me) pleasures of my young life then, and still, from time to time, I rewatch these masterpieces of entertaining horrors. The Evil Dead movies combine demonic horror, splatter, gore and elements of comedy with great skill and I guess every director who ever made a horror-comedy movie after did watch those two movies. For me, the first one of the trilogy of the deadnites is the best one.Bruce Campbell played the role of his life in those movies and with the new show Ash vs. Evil Dead, he is on top as a B-movie actor again.