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Rating: 8/10 (12 June 2020)

What a pleasure it is to revisit Raimi's classic time and time again and never tire of it. Hard to believe 39 years has passed since The Evil Dead splattered it's way onto our screens and into our existence but this fact only reinforces it's tenure now as a modern 'classic' of horror cinema, even though it was ahead of its time back in 1981. It cost supposedly $50K to make and yet what they achieved with that paltry sum is indeed astonishing.They, for the most part didn't put a foot wrong. From the swirling fog and mist, to Cheryl's leafy assault and pursuit amongst the undergrowth, Linda's hilarious demise, the surreal excursion into the basement and of course the landmark final tracking shot - a movie of this flaming originality and departure only comes along perhaps once a decade. The Evil Dead stood in for the 80's, Blair Witch for the 90's and after that, I can't really think of the next entry ( there has been admittedly kind of a drought for awhile). Like your worst dream as a ten year old, The Evil Dead resurrects itself in real time as the everloving fun-house nightmare you cannot escape.