A Classic of it's Kind

Rating: Null/10 (16 August 2002)

Evil Dead is perhaps the horror film which spawned a decade of take-offs and look-alikes. From a storyline point of view there is not much to look forward to, but this film (like most 80's horrors) was not about storyline at all.
What this film lacks in storyline it superbly makes up for in it's gore and fright factor!
I remember seeing this film at the age of nine, and being completely scared out of my mind for weeks, I would go to bed and think that I had one of the Dead underneath my bed. It took me so long to get over it, and I don't think I truly appreciated what the film had to offer at the time.
When I was older, at about the age of 14, I rented the film with a friend of mine in Darwin, Australia where we were living at the time. Watching it late one night at his house, the film had his older sister running out of the room within 30 minutes of it's running time, but both my friend and I were salivating for more gore, more horror, more THRILLS! (which undoubtly is what this film does deliver).
If you have never seen a horror film(!) before, please see The Evil Dead, and discard it's two awful comedy-horror sequals.
The problem with the film's two sequals is that they were released at the wrong time really. They were released in the midst of the whole 90's horror-fest thing that America seemed to be going through, where every second movie released from the vaults just happened to be a horror film, trying to better Evil Dead.
If the two sequals had stood up to the gore and chill factor that this film did, perhaps they would have succeeded also and become landmark films as this film did.
Nowdays, there are no good major horror films released (especially not from America). Nowdays, everything that comes out of America (not just horrors either, sadly), either has to have someone from Friends or Party of Five in it to even make it past the godforsaken box-office.
Back in the 80's, films were released not for popularity, but for fun and enjoyment of others.
Now, people have to contend with the fucking censorship side of things, then all America sees in it's glazed eyes is $$$$$$$$$.
"If the film ain't gonna make the $$$$$$$$$ then f*** it!"
Before the 90's, America's attitude towards releasing a film was : "F*** the Censors, lets give the people what they want! Who cares if these actors can't act, we'll throw in a couple of boob-shots and nobody will care!"
What a shame America evolved into such a shambles...