This is the film that got me into horror movies

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2003)

I first stumbled apon the Evil Dead when i saw it had got the NC-17 rating from the MPAA. I've never really heard of a film getting an NC-17 because of the violent content only so i decided to check it out. Thank God i did. The Evil Dead is by far the best horror movie i've ever seen. It's this film that got me into the Horror/Gore gerne into the first place and since then i've become quite the Gorehound.
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The gist of the movie is about a bunch of young college kids who rent a cabin in the woods for a weekend of sex, drugs and drinking. Things go way out of hand after the guys find a Ancient Sumarian Book called "Necronomicon del Monto" and a tape recorder with a message from the professor who studied it there with his wife. After playing the recording on the tape recorder the demonic forces awake from their slumber in the dark forests of man domian and all hell breaks lose. The Demons have the power to possess the living and one by one each of the kids in the cabin become possessed and try to kill their friends. Among the horrors you will see in this movie are a violent tree rape scene, a pencil stabbed in the heel of a woman's foot and twisted, a possessed woman biting her hand off after having it cut half way off with a hunting knife, a man chopping up her possessed girlfriend with an axe including shot of arms and feet being severed with lots of blood, a man severing his girlfriends head with a shovel and her body falling on top of him spurting blood all over his face, a possessed chick having a hole blown out of her check with a shotgun blast, a possessed man's eyes being gouged out via thumbs, and a glorious meltdown and disintegration sequence were the possessed persons body's start falling apart right befour our eyes. This film definetly lives up to it NC-17 rating and if you don't believe me check it out for yourself. This is by far the goriest film i've ever seen with the exception of Dead Alive (unrated version). Other then the awesome gore effects the film has some of the best camera shots and movements i've ever scene in a movie. The acting is good for a low budget horror flick, well at least Bruce Campbell's is. The scene where it's just him all alone in the cabin with the demonic forces screwing with him gives you the feeling that this character might think it's all just some weird hallucinations he's having possibly from the drugs he's done. Maybe this was a just a bad head trip and he chopped up his friends for nothing (chuckles).
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I can't possibly give this film enough praise, it's the best your gonna get when it comes to low-budger horror flicks, Hell it's even better then all the high-budget Hollywood horror pictures that have come out, well at least in my opinion. I could watch it again and again without ever getting sick of it. Rating: 10/10.