Classic Horror (Video nasty)

Rating: Null/10 (20 January 2002)

I only read a few of the reviews here and was a bit disappointed by the negative ones.
I'm only 30, but when I was 13, this was the one of a group of films to get you hands on. Cannibal Holocaust, I Spit on your grave and other classics were classed as Video Nasties' in England. Anyway copying and the black market supply were rife, but still The Evil Dead' was too bad for me to see.
I eventually conned somebody, I forget who now, into getting it from someone I knew (wouldn't give to me directly, something about being 13, but I forget). Anyway finally saw and was scared to death, something that never happens and unfortunately has never happened since.
Ever since then I have loved this film, made with such passion, yet with so little money. So much in your face' horror.
I'm sure in this modern age, some will even laugh at this movie, but at the time, for me, it was wonderful and scary.
I remember a number of people remarked on how Sam Raimi would go on to become a hugely successful director, it never happened as every other film he made was quite poor.