EVIL DEAD (DIDIER BECU)

Rating: 6/10 (5 November 2003)

"Evil Dead" will be known for its classic merits in the horrorgenre and it might be one of the pioneermovies in the slash and splattergenre but this doesn't take away the fact that this movie is hopelessly dated. Sam Raimi worked with a very low budget and was helped by the Coen-brothers with whom he was living on a flat, the theory says that they even used motorbikes to film some shoots. Anyway, the guts are there and it is great to see a movie just like it's been made by some students but the horroreffect I read about here on these pages isn't here at all (just watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to see the difference) and it's not very funny (sometimes you can't help of thinking to see some creepy Muppetcreatures rather than scary zombies, especially when the zombies are completely destroyed...blood never looked as much as ketchup as here). Dreadful movie? No you can watch it, but as said just too dated to thrill us still...