The Evil Dead
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Actor: Barbara Carey, Betsy Baker, Bruce Campbell, Philip A. Gillis, Richard DeManincorPrimary Contributor: Bruce Campbell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), DTS 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of The Evil Dead
DVD Review: Simply perfect
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the greatest horror films of all time just gets better as you watch it. This movie is loved by all. It is a classic.DVD Review: The Greatest Horror Movie since the Exorcist
Summary: 5 Stars
The Evil Dead by Far is the 2nd most scariest Movie ever made portraying
Human's being possesed by Demon's. Of course We all know the Exorcist
is #1. I seen the Movie for the first time when I was 10 at a Drive-In.!!!
It was a double bill, Texas Chainsaw Masacre, and then the Evil Dead, the
cost of admission: $2.00
So if You want your Girlfriend or Wife to be Clinging to You like Super Glue, Lower the Light's, Blaze Up some Candles and put The Evil Dead in
the DVD player. It's just a Great Horror Movie.
DVD Review: Raimi gets reel
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie felt more like an excuse for Sam Raimi to try out film and makeup techniques, rather that try and make a cohesive horror film. There were some pretty impressive effects and camera moves for such a low budget film, and it clearly demonstrated Raimi has a future in the industry, but the film isn't very good otherwise. It was thin on plot and not the least bit frightening, just gore and effects. This has evidently made alot of horror fans happy considering the 5 star ratings, but not even Sam Raimi himself would give this 5 stars. He is surprised that the film has been so well received. Based on the reviews, I was expecting alot more. Despite flashes of brilliance, it is substandard. Raimi did get to show off his range of skills with reverse film, stop motion claymation, frame rate changes and practical effects, but that took center stage over the actual story. I would give the film 2 stars with a bonus star for the creativity and skill shown in a low budget first feature.DVD Review: Splatter Classic that set a standard for the genre.
Summary: 4 Stars
One of the first two dozen DVDs that I purchased was Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead"(1983),which was one of my favorite films during my Junior High/Early High School life.
The film is a splatter classic that tells the simple story of a group of five college students who go to an old cabin in the woods and unleash an ancient evil which kills and takes them over,leaving only one survivor...and than something happens....
Raimi brings so much exuberance to the production with a constantly mobile camera,some wild concepts and bizarre special effects that it would be difficult for it not to have become an instant cult hit.The film's gore was so extreme that it featured the most buckets of blood in a film for over a decade until Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive"(1990).
In recent years the film has taken on a larger following,which seems more inspired by it's comic third film,"Army of Darkness",and the original has become overrated.
What keeps the film from being a TRUE genre classic is the fact that the acting and characters are pretty amateurish and the film dosen't exactly have the best plot and will be remade more effectively by Raimi in 1987 as "Evil Dead 2:Dead by Dawn".
Still,this is a must see Horror film for fans of the genre and a Grindhouse must have.
This DVD edition features loads of features including two audio commentaries with Director and Producer,Sam Raimia nd Rod Tapert and one with star and B-Movie legend,Bruce Campbell.There are also still galleries,behind the scenes footage and trailers.
The print is pretty good and is offered in full frame,but being this was a low budget film and not a major studio release,that's acceptable.
Still a good DVD release if you can track it down.
DVD Review: Gory Fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've watched this one so many times I've stopped counting. I think this one falls in the lines of either you loved it or couldn't stand it. I love this flick, it ranks up there for me as The Ultimate Cabin In The Woods Movie! Grab your popcorn and get ready to have lots of gory fun!
Description of The Evil Dead
Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 03/05/2002 Starring: Bruce Campbell Rating: NrIn the fall of 1979, Sam Raimi and his merry band headed into the woods of rural Tennessee to make a movie. They emerged with a roller coaster of a film packed with shocks, gore, and wild humor, a film that remains a benchmark for the genre. Ash (cult favorite Bruce Campbell) and four friends arrive at a backwoods cabin for a vacation, where they find a tape recorder containing incantations from an ancient book of the dead. When they play the tape, evil forces are unleashed, and one by one the friends are possessed. Wouldn't you know it, the only way to kill a "deadite" is by total bodily dismemberment, and soon the blood starts to fly. Raimi injects tremendous energy into this simple plot, using the claustrophobic set, disorienting camera angles, and even the graininess of the film stock itself to create an atmosphere of dread, punctuated by a relentless series of jump-out-of-your-seat shocks. The Evil Dead lacks the more highly developed sense of the absurd that distinguish later entries in the series--Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness--but it is still much more than a gore movie. It marks the appearance of one of the most original and visually exciting directors of his generation, and it stands as a monument to the triumph of imagination over budget. --Simon Leake
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