Skip This, And Watch The Sequel Instead

Rating: 4/10 (8 March 2007)

Here's a film "series" in which I much preferred the sequel over the original. This is the first one of the Evil Dead movies and it lacks the humor and general interest that Evil Dead 2 provides. ED2 also is much tamer in the language department, has better thrills and more entertaining action-horror scenes.
This one has 30-year-old-looking actors playing college kids, one of them blaspheming every few minutes, and most of them give an amateurish feel to the whole movie. After a slow start, when the gore starts, it comes in buckets. Sometimes there is so much it's almost laughable, so stupid and ludicrous.
Actually, this whole film is so bad it is unintentionally funny in a number of spots. Bruce Campbell didn't speak much in this movie, either. Maybe he was just learning how to act. By the second "Dead," at least he had the facial expressions down pat.