You will laugh, you will scream...

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2017)

The Evil Dead is one of the most interesting and unique Horror movies ever. It spawned the career of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell and a whole franchise that followed it's huge success.
It was made on almost no budget and simply self made inside a real abandonment cabin in the woods. The gore and make up is self made, they had no stunt people for the action scenes and no money for better equipment, but hell it works incredibly well!
It's astonishing how good this movie is, for some reason, even though you see that it's a low-budget student film, you never once feel like "Oh man, these are just some kids playing zombie in their cellar", instead you are invested the whole way through.
One of the reasons for this are the actors, who had little to no experience and aren't written as stereotypes, instead they just feel like real people who are in a bad situation. The best part of this is by far Bruce Campbell who has the most real reactions to the weird things which are happening.
The best example of this is a scene which surprised and positively floored me: The scene when Ash knocks out his girlfriend Linda and ties her in one of Sam Raimis trademark montages to a table and starts a chainsaw to cut her in pieces. Me knowing just a few of the one- liners and the image of Ash from the sequels thinks "Okay now it 's gonna get bloody as hell." But instead, Ash just stops the chainsaw and breaks down because he can't kill his girlfriend, who he loves so much.
It's one of my favourite scenes ever, and it's done very well. And this is what i like the most about this movie, the realness and the heart of it, together with the insane amount of creativity and work that's clearly put into it.
I also have to praise the camera-work of this movie, it's so insanely creative and effective, together with the fitting editing, and most of the best scenes in the film are because of these two aspects.
And also, something almost no one talks about while discussing this gem, the soundtrack is fantastic. It fits perfectly at the right places and has some memorable themes. As i watched the movie with a Friend a few weeks ago, he always had a emotional reaction to the love theme of Ash and Linda, and "awwww"-ed every time he heard it and remembered what's at stake for the protagonist.
All in all, i didn't expected such a weird but fairly adult, scary and ALSO funny at times, horror film, and hell yeah i love it to death...