The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead
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Actor: Barbara Carey, Betsy Baker, Bruce Campbell, Philip A. Gillis, Richard DeManincor
Brand: CAMPBELL,BRUCE
Primary Contributor: Bruce Campbell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), DTS 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, 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: Evil Dead fan must have.
Summary: 4 Stars

Sam Raimi & Bruce Campbell the two pals from Western Michigan University create magic when they work together.

DVD Review: Evil Dead is better than Star Wars?
Summary: 5 Stars

Sam Raimi is the best at what he does & Bruce Campbell is the greatest actor since Michael Caine. This is the beginning of an epic trilogy that will change your life & give you the ability to become immortal forever.

DVD Review: Evil Dead: Gore-Iffic!
Summary: 3 Stars

Evil Dead is a movie I don't appreciate, Is pointless and no plot, just gore and of course Young dumb people staying in the woods, Why would you stay in a creepy cabin? Mama didn't raise no fool, But that's horror movies, people doing dumb stuff. Although Bruce Campbell is a legend.don't watch if your queasy.

DVD Review: Gore galore, but not much more...
Summary: 2 Stars

THE EVIL DEAD

(USA - 1982)

Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Theatrical soundtrack: Mono

Whilst on vacation at an isolated backwoods cabin, five students are terrorized by ancient spirits which possess and kill them, one by one.

Clearly the work of talented filmmakers going places, this OTT gore-fest is alternately loud, excessive, stylish and disgusting, in roughly equal amounts. Debut director Sam Raimi throws everything into the mix, perhaps to atone for a flimsy plot and stock characters (well-played by an excellent cast, including cult-performer-in-the-making Bruce Campbell), and while much of it is tongue-in-cheek, some scenes leapfrog the taste barrier with unconscionable glee (Raimi has since admitted the 'tree rape' sequence was a mistake, for example).

Sadly, the movie is rendered monotonous by its excessive pace and comic insouciance (the sequels - beginning with EVIL DEAD II (1987) - went even further in this direction), and the movie quickly succumbs to the laws of diminishing returns; once you've seen one drooling demon getting its head cut off, you've seen 'em all! Fantastic low budget production values, however, and the makeup effects are dandy.

DVD Review: The woods are alive . . . with the sound of horror!
Summary: 5 Stars

Believe it, ladies and gentlemen. The Evil Dead is a bloody, gory, explicit, and sometimes darkly humorous low-budget horror movie. There's no doubt about it. If you have a weak stomach, you'll probably find yourself puking in the toilet halfway through the film. Good thing I don't have one (no offense). This is a gore-filled masterpiece. It really is. If you think Saw and House of 1000 Corpses (both of which are great horror films, by the way) are bloody and gory, wait until you see this one. Like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Evil Dead is a prime example of how hands should be bitten off, and how bodies should be dismembered with an axe. And it's all done in such a low budget; it's unbelievable. I have to say that this is an excellent movie to watch on Halloween, and an excellent movie to watch any day or night. It's scary, funny, bloody, gory, intense . . . . and that's basically how it is.

P.S. Bruce Campbell is ****ing awesome. At least in the second half of the movie, anyway.

Description of The Evil Dead

Students staying in a forest cabin conjure up the living dead who attack the students; the students then turn upon each other.
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 5-MAR-2002
Media Type: DVD
In 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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