To this day, I think The Evil Dead is still one of the Scariest Movies ever Made

Rating: 10/10 (19 February 2019)

Like most people I know, I was first introduced to the Evil Dead films with 1993's Army of Darkness. The latter was one of my favourite action/comedy/adventure films when I was a boy. I still remember to this day when my father first told me about the original Evil Dead. He told me, however, unlike Army of Darkness, the original film was a "real" serious horror film. He also told me that it was the first movie that he and my mother had watched during their first date....
I was never allowed to watch the film until I was a teenager, and when I finally did.....I was truly terrified. I had never seen a horror movie like it before, and to this day, I have never really seen another horror movie like it since. For me, I really think that The Evil Dead is still a pretty scary movie today.
The plot is rather simple and somewhat cliché. Five college friends journey deep into the Tennessee woods to vacation at a small creepy cabin. They later find an old tape recorder that when played allows demons living in the woods. One by one, they become possessed until only Ash (Bruce Campbell) remains.
There is just something incredibly frightening about this movie that I don't believe any other film has ever been able to recreate. Many viewers find parts of the film funny, but for me, I never did. The part where you see Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss) engulfed in the darkness of the cellar, looking up and laughing demonically with the blue goo dribbling down her chin is, for me, something truly creepy and disturbing even to this day.
The make-up of the "deadites" may look cheap, but I think that that just makes them all the more creepy. Even the deadites in Evil Dead II (which had a bigger budget) did not seem almost as menacing and truly "evil" as their original counterparts. That being said, I don't even think the deadites in the 2013 remake lived up to the terror of the original.
10/10