It's...well, a Horror Movie

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 1999)

Evil Dead has some off-beat horror. But Bruce Campbell really doesn't come to the foreground until the back half of the movie. Much more horror than comedy, and unless you're looking for the Raimi Trademarks in this early film of his, you'd be hard put to distinguish ED from many other "evil spirits possessing bodies and killing others" movie of the era (like The Evil). It's a good horror movie, but not a spectacular one.