Join us.....

Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2013)

Five friends go to a cabin in the woods for a vacation. They discover "The Book of the Dead" and a tape recorder belonging to a professor, who also owns the cabin.
One of them plays back what is recorded on the tape-- which just happens to be Candarian resurrection passages translated from the Book of the Dead by the professor, which unleashes an evil force from the woods.
The friends start turning evil, and the others soon learn from the tape that the only way to kill a person who is turned is by total body dismemberment.....
This film has a huge legacy, it gave us one amazing director, and one of the most iconic actors of our generation, and while the film is hilarious at times, its never really as scary as other cult horror movie, as you know that Raimi always had this as the The Three Stooges with blood.
It's unnerving at times, especially when the recordings are being played, or when the forest comes alive, but watching it now, you can understand why it was labelled as a video nasty, but the gore is so over the top, you cannot help but smile at the sheer audacity Raimi had to make this.
It's a groundbreaking movie, the budget is shoestring, but it looks so classy and the cast are a lot of fun. There are scenes that may turn viewers off, but never take the film seriously, its a fun movie made by friends, to simply entertain.
Wonderful.