If you can overlook the mostly lame-o acting, cheeseball effects and fumbling drama, there's enough fledgling genius here to fill another thousand horror movies.
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09/24/07
The Evil Dead (1979)
100 %
Reviews Counted: 41 Fresh: 41 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Consensus:
This classic low budget horror film combines just the right amount of gore and black humor, giving The Evil Dead an equal amount of thrills and laughs.
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Synopsis: Director Sam Raimi's first film has achieved legendary status since its 1982 release, and for good reason. Though perhaps not as widely seen as its two sequels, EVIL DEAD 2 and ARMY OF DARKNESS, THE EVIL DEAD is arguably the best of the three. It is the story of five college-age friends who travel... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly, Hal Delrich
Reviews
Top Critic
Energetic, original and icky, Raimi's splat-stick debut is a tight little horror classic that deserves its cult reputation, despite the best efforts of the censors.
09/24/07
Top Critic
Short on characterisation and plot but strong on atmospheric horror and visual churns.
01/26/06
Top Critic
...what it lacks in narrative weight, it compensates for with a relentless pace, disturbing atmosphere, as well as some imaginative displays of dismemberment.
04/17/01
Top Critic
Director Sam Raimi attacks the movie with a brutal kind of kinetic creativity, moving the camera in truly unique patterns.
12/20/07
The Evil Dead's no-holds-barred resourcefulness places it among the masterpieces of the genre.
10/24/07
Sam Raimi directed this 1983 horror feature fresh out of film school, and his anything-for-an-effect enthusiasm pays off in lots of formally inventive bits.
09/24/07
Not for the faint of heart or those uninitiated in the ways of modern horror, it's a hoot for fans of the genre.
09/24/07
Top Critic
While injecting considerable black humor, neophyte Detroit-based writer-director Sam Raimi maintains suspense and a nightmarish mood in between the showy outbursts of special effects gore and graphic violence which are staples of modern horror pictures.
09/24/07
Top Critic
With a flurry of dismembered body parts, the film spells its intentions in scaring with complete, relentless excess.
10/08/05
Le premier film d’une excellente trilogie [...] mais les deux autres volets sont davantage des incontournables.
10/28/04
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