Dead Weight.

Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2002)

Pathetic low-budget horror from a very young Sam Raimi is nothing but a gross-out cinematic (if you can it that) experience. Bruce Campbell and four other equally dim-witted people go to a cabin in the middle of nowhere and release an unspeakable evil that will not stop until they are all dead. Every horror film ever made before "The Evil Dead" seems to have a little air time in this enormous yawn. The shoe-string budget was used on visually ugly special makeup effects that only lessen the value on an already useless flick. Like the equally worthless "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "The Evil Dead" is a would-be-shocker that ends up being more stupid than anything else. If you want to see a good low-budget horror flick check out "Night of the Living Dead" (the 1968 version) or "The Blair Witch Project" instead. Turkey (0 stars out of 5).