The only horror movie, make that movie period, you will ever see a possessed tree limb act as a dildo.

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 2002)

While that first line might be a bit of a stretch, it gives a bit of mind about what to expect from Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead, a horror movie so vulgar, so gorish, so unexplicably twisted, that it's incredibly ingenuous until the last shot. Even for a low budget film noticably shot practically on a shoe string from a corpse, it's balsy. The story starts off, and in times steers towards, the area of horror cliches, and yet by the time(s) we see the demonic characters, and the blood that goes along with it, it's accepted with the territory.
The Evil Dead is to me one of those horror pictures like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or or Night of the Living Dead that goes to show that within the muck of endless B horror films that those with little money to spend can concoct something that shows craft (and good old chills) triumphs over money every now and then. And if you happen to view this as a comedy, it goes for laughs in certain spots as well, albiet twisted to a crazed T. A+