I was never the same again...

Rating: 10/10 (29 September 1998)

I first seen this movie in 1983 very soon after if was first released on VHS. At the time I was about 6 years old and I lived a 4 room shack out in the boonies. This shack had no running water and the washroom was an outhouse, the shack itself consisted of a kitchen, family room and 2 bedrooms. While I watched this movie I was horrified, but it was the long lasting effect that it had on me that was the worst. I had nightmares for almost ten years, never being able to get the image of the deadite girl sitting on the floor, chanting "We're going to get you", out of my head. I am 21 now and I still get scared watching Evil Dead to this day, and my fiancee refuses to watch it because she can't get to sleep that night if she does. This is the effect that The Evil Dead has on people, and that is the reason that it is the greatest horror movie ever made. Any movie that can leave this sort of long lasting effect on a life is truly a great movie, in any genre. Thank you Sam Raimi, thanks for showing the world what fear is all about.