We're going to get you.

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2008)

This movie proves that you do no not need a big budget to scare the living hell out of people. The special effects, while not being sophisticated on modern standards, are in my opinion perhaps the best I've ever seen in a horror movie, the stop motion animation and sick makeup effects add a hint of authenticity. As modern cgi would look, and in most movies looks dull. The set of the movie was also realistic as it was a cabin in a forest instead of a studio set. The acting while not maybe academy award winning, is great, Bruce Campbell does a remarkable job as Ash, the bad ass hero. The girl chanting "we're going to get you" really gave me the chills.
What about the atmosphere. It reminds me of the George A. Romero zombie trilogy (which is the best ever BTW), the feeling of isolation and helplessness against a horror nowhere to be seen, but still lurking everywhere around. The use of clever camera-work as seen when the deadite crashes through the window of the cabin to possess one of the girls and in the end when one of them flies through the cabin to get Ash gives a feeling of uncertainty of whose point of view is it if anyones as the deadites are never shown without a possessed physical body and is left a mystery if they even have a form without it.
Humour is also a part of the greatness of this film, the graphic violence is executed in a humorous, but still convincing way, there are also some cool one liners and the performance by Campbell itself is somehow unexplainably funny. There's also a weird rape scene featuring a tree raping a girl, while being pretty messed up it was also hilarious.
That's about it. I give it a solid 10/10 and if you haven't seen it, what are you waiting for? Go see it.