The main reason I found this such a warm, comforting and pleasant experience was

Rating: Null/10 (9 January 2020)

So, continuing what will, hopefully be a short season of films to watch whilst I am under the weather and liable to drop off, I return to the Evil Dead. I say return because I am certain that I saw the original Palace Video release although subsequently I most of my viewings were of the later Evil dead 2. Watching this was a surprising joy. Certainly not perfect, with many over the top elements becoming almost laughable, or even actually laughable because although I thought this was the grim one and No.2 the comedic version, Sam Raimi clearly couldn't resist the odd joke. The main reason I found this such a warm, comforting and pleasant experience was, I think because it brought back those early video days. Constant searching for something mad, crazy and subversive. Never mind the quality just feel the innovation and the degradation, the brazen doing of what had never been done. Unlike much of what I found in those far off days, in the back of sordid video stores or at the bottom of boxes at a car boot sale, this is clearly quality film making. Despite having limited resources and lacking much facilities, sheer enthusiasm and a gut feeling for film enables Raimi and pals to storm a simple idea into fruition thereby bringing to the screens (or more significantly then, video) a film that punches in the gut, makes you sit up and look at the world just a little bit differently.