Evil Dead - (Nickoli)

One word can cover this film: classic. Bruce Campbell is a truly talented actor with anything he has been apart of but this film and the trilogy shows what he can really do. The film might start a bit slow but it is a 1981 film and we all know that most movies in that era took a bit to warm up before the real action started. Evil Dead is one of the very very few films that can combine horror and dark comedy and make it work so perfectly. If you watch this as a horror film, you may miss little stabs of humor, keep your mind open a bit and you'll fall in love with the little stitches of funny they throw at you.

Starting off in the woods of bum-fucked Tennessee, you follow 5 young people that are on a form of vacation it seems (don't ask me why anyone would vacation way out in the middle of nowhere with shitty bridges). After reaching the cabin, they are settling in and hear some strange noises coming from the basement. They discover Necronomicon, or the Sumerian Book of the Dead, wrapped in flesh and written in blood. Along with the book, they find a tape recorder, of course, they play the tape and things take a turn for the worse from that moment forward, awaking evil spirits is the last thing they through they would do. Welcome to the forest of the damned!

The best thing about Evil Dead is the camera angles, oh, how I love the camera work in this film. They brought new light to a dying genre that desperately was in need of CPR, one part I'm really trying to point out is the "chase" scenes through the woods and the house at the end. The cabin was also a very nice touch, it was small yet it always seemed to be a lot larger than what it looked like on the outside. As amazing as this film is it does have flaws and I hate to admit that more than anything. Without Campbell in this film, this project would of never taken off, he's the only one that actually show's charisma, the others seems spiteful, annoying and just out of it, honestly. Another thing that is considered one of the more "nastier" parts of the film is the "rape" scene in the film. I won't consider it a full blown rape scene but it is rather awkward seeing a tree rape an annoying woman that thinks it's perfectly okay to walk in the woods alone on a foggy night.

Overall, this film will always stand alone as hall of fame greatness, defining the way "...Living Dead" and "Chainsaw" horror/dark comedy movies are made for the modern times. If you haven't seen this film, you'd probably been living under a rock for the last couple decades and deserve to keep living under that shitty rock.

Overall Rating: 94% out of 100%