Not the Comic Grandeur Once Thought

Rating: Null/10 (13 November 2003)

Having not viewed the original Evil Dead for many years being more of a fan of the sequels in the trilogy,I decided to refresh my memory as to where it all began.
No way at all should this film even be connected to the others,Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness are zany comic masterpieces with even more Comic style violence thrown in..The original is something different altogether.
The more mainstream Sam Raimi has become in no way has it lessened the impact of this truly disturbing film.The cinematograpy,atmosphere and daunting soundtrack provide a total essence of terror in this film.
And the elaborate death and massacre scenes are nothing to be laughed at.They are explicit and extremely plentiful.
Dont ask me why i see this film differently to the others,It has more serious undertones,The Characters aren't maimed beyond human life capacity and still survive.They are faced with an isolated misunderstood horror and worst of all,they are faced with killing their loved one's in the process of eliminating it..
***SPOILERS*** The scene were Ash's friend asks him to strike down one of the possessed women is just disturbing and the resilience in Ash's hugging the axe at this moment is certainly not a show of things to come in his developing character,It shows he is more human and it's this show of emotion that sets the films effect in full blast.The beast in the Cellar chanting along to all the mayhem occuring above could be a test as to how much terror a viewer could withstand in a particular ongoing scene..This is where the challenge lies within Evil Dead,making it a cut above most horror films that preceeded it and existed beyond.
I dare you to take the challenge.
**** out of *****