a low budget horror milestone (possible spoiler)

Rating: 9/10 (30 August 1999)

This movie, The Evil Dead, is the first out of the Evil Dead Trilogy, all directed by Sam Raimi (who also directed A Simple Plan, another great movie). With an extremely low budget somewhere around only $50,000, Raimi had few options to try and scare the viewer. He did an excellent job of doing so by using the camera as a tactic. Examples of this in the film was when he would have the camera skim over the forest, making it seem like evil was around the cast and the cabin, was excellent. also at the end, when Ash (the sole surviver of the Evil Dead, I told you this would be a spoiler) is walking out of the cabin in the day, thankful to be alive, and then the camera comes screaming through the forest, in through the cabin, through the doors, and out right on to the unsuspecting Ash was a great way to leave the movie open for a sequel. Although the blood and gore was incredibly fake, you couldn't expect much more from a movie with a budget as low as it was. Out of the three movies in the Evil Dead trilogy, this one was geared toward horror the most. The other two, especially Army of Darkness (which was basically all comedy), is geared toward the horror/comedy aspect, which is always entertaining. If you're really in the mood for a nice treat, get the special edition DVD of this movie, with audio commentary by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, among others. It is excellent. My grade: A-