Small budget ,huge pay off and copycats!

Rating: 8/10 (7 November 2016)

Evil Dead of 1981 is among the most historic horror movies and low budget flicks alike.The 22 year old back then Sam Raimi with only 350 to 400 thousands dollars at his disposal and his closest friends, among them the now legendary Bruce Campbell, he made the ground zero for the cabin in the hoods archetype we all know and frankly had ourselves full of it. So that is a bonus reason why to watch it or re-watch: to see how this sub-genre of horror is done well.
The story is simple,nice and neat, five friends go for some days in a cabin in the hoods and during their stay there are attacked by demonic spirits and do their best to survive this onslaught of demons and gulls.And there is the stuff that imitators are made of ,for many future directors and studios just saw the low budget and high score (with only limited release it made 2.4 millions, which means about 6 times its budget) and went berserk to carbon copy the formula in order to get a piece of this new pie.
As I have wrote before this one of the issues with the movie making business, when something new comes into view and critics, audiences and even the Oscars love it, studios don't look why the movie or series of movies made money, for the causes like ,good script, nice characters, captivating scenes which made sense in the story, the original or good- looking or interesting cinematography. No they focused to the gore, locations of the incident and genre, the external features of the flick and not the ones that matter. For the people don't love Star Wars, Deadpool or Saving Private Ryan ,because are science fiction, gory and R-rated or brutal respectively, they like them for their unique style, story and characters.
Anyway to finish my rant about this issue ,when something is popular don't carbon copy it, made the style your own and give it something of you, this why City of God is praised like the movie from which took inspirations The Goodfellas and Legends was boring as hell.
As for the legacy of Evil Dead, it is huge and has got a cult status equal to the Clockwork Orange, Fight Club and Labyrinth and today is put at the same category with classics of the horror genre like Dracula (1931), Psycho (1960), Halloween (1978), Jaws (1975) and Scream (1992). To add to that even nowadays we see it in its great sequels and TV series which as far as I heard of is pretty groovy.
All in all I recommended for anyone that likes horror movies and new directors who want some idea how to make their first horror flick. Also to the latter group if it isn't as good as you wanted to, don't be too hard on yourselves, usually the first time is the hardest and the one with the most mistakes, the next one will be better, expect from Syamalan then it is the other way around lol!