Watch Out For That Tree!

Rating: 10/10 (13 June 2005)

Sam Raimi took off and running with his first feature film, "The Evil Dead." Shot on the cheap, Raimi still managed to scare his audience, and the film is a cult classic. 5 young people are on a little trip to an isolated cabin. While checking the cabin out, they find a tape recorder and a book. Not leaving well enough alone (This is a horror film, after all), they play the tape, which explains that the book is a "book of the dead," which contains incantations that allow demons to possess the living. The spell which is translated on the tape releases the evil that's in the forest. Trapped in the cabin, each of them soon becomes possessed by the "evil dead," which torments and brutalizes the remaining survivors, until only Ash (Bruce Campbell)remains. Ash has to try to survive the night and avoid his friends, who want him dead.
The film is pretty graphic: people getting chopped up because that's the only way they can be stopped, one poor individual gets stabbed in the foot with a pencil, and there's lots and lots of graphic gore. But the most incredibly graphic scene is when one poor girl gets raped by the forest (you have to see it to believe it).
Even after over 20 years, this film is still unsettling (And I have a VERY hard time watching this at night). If you're like me, then you might want to watch it in the light. Otherwise, go ahead and take a chance. But remember, I warned ya!