Sam Raimi, an amazing movie considering on the low budget it was made. The effects Raimi creates are amazing like in the first scene when the 5 teenagers arrive at the cabin and the porch swing is hitting rhymically against the cabin and stops when Tom puts his hand on the door, really creepy and effective, but now with the "Scream" movies, I doubt it would scare anyone.
For those who are Ash fans (myself included), you will be dissapointed, the "Ash attitude" as I like to call it (one-liners, guns, chainsaws for hands, and always getting the girl), doesn't really gel till the end of the movie and into "Evil Dead 2". Ash's real name is Ashely and he is pretty much Ashely till the end of the movie where his character becomes Ash. Not to down play on Bruce Campbell who does a great job, this is how it is in this movie. An example of this is when some zombie girls attack Tom and Ashely is standing in the background looking horrified, and those who have seen "Evil Dead 2" or "Army of Darkness" will be standing up and screaming at Ash to do something.
I would say it is unfair to compare "Evil Dead" to "Army of Darkness" because the movies get better as they go along and, of course, have higher budgets... "Evil Dead 2" is not as strong plot wise and "Evil Dead" because basically it's a remake of "Evil Dead"...
"Evil Dead" could also be considered to have a weak plot that a 5-year old can follow, but horror films are much more subtle and create more suspence now so that screenwriters don't have to hit the plot over the audience's head to get it across. If this movie was shown today, it would get bad reviews as a horror movie, but "Evil Dead" is more of a cult classic and if you can step back and realize that "Evil Dead" even though it's a low-budget movie, it's a satire on low-budget movies and does a lot of sterotypical things on purpose. This humour is carried on in "Evil Dead 2" and "Army of Darkness" | 
11-17-05, 03:05
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