"Bound In Human Flesh And Inked In Blood...."

Rating: 10/10 (12 June 2008)

It's been one of my favorite horror films since the first time I saw it, when I was too young to know what I was getting into. Sam Raimi ain't the best director in the world, but he did invent the Raimi-Rush here, a technique which no one besides him ...(read more)has ever really used to as great effect.
Anyway, this is Bruce Campbell, in a small shack in the woods, with a few friends who accidentally summon the demon spirits of the woods, and are one by one possessed and transformed.
There's severed human hands crawling of their own accords, a woman raped by a forest, and more blood, gore, and hilarity intentional or not, than you will find in the thousands of films which imitate this one. A horror classic, that's more inventive and raucous than scary. Also the beginning of a trilogy in the saga of Bruce Campbell's Ash character in the horror slapstick "Evil Dead 2", and the full on epic mid-evil parody of "Army Of Darkness" both fun films, too but it all starts here. And it was never truly as good. "We can't bury Linda...she's our friend!"