Evil Dead HEAVILY lifted from 1969's 'Terror Creatures...'

Rating: Null/10 (25 February 2007)

I realize that 'there's nothing new under the sun', and 'it's ALL been done before', blah, blah, blah. But when dozens of EXACTLY the same scenes, dialogue, cinematography techniques, etc. throughout Evil Dead suddenly appeared before my eyes while I watched 1969's 'Terror Creatures From The Grave'--one HAS to wonder, '...what is up?' I've done some fairly in-depth research trying to locate a point in either Robert Tapert or Sam Raimi's careers where they even acknowledge the schlocky, black and white, barely-coherent 'Terror Creatures...', but alas, No mention has EVER been made by either of them of this movie that is obviously a HUGE influence if not straight-up SOURCE for their film Evil Dead. Why wouldn't they just say they were influenced to the point of plagerism? Probably not a wise career move, I'd guess. But to seemingly go out-of-their-way to conceal the connection between their movie and the old 'T.C...' is kind of strange, and I think frankly needs to be addressed.
Oh, and I'm a HUGE fan of the film Evil Dead, and it changed my life as well, so don't think I'm coming on here to destroy this film. It's a great film. It blows 'Terror Creatures...' out of the water. It also, unfortunately looks EXACTLY like it in so many places, I'm simply wondering why they took this much liberty at 'borrowing' from another film without ACKNOWLEDGING it's INFLUENCE.
I guess if you aren't a particularly creative person yourself, you wouldn't really understand how much this could be a very personal violation of one's time, energy and talent, when it is so casually borrowed and then tagged as someone else's stuff. Well, it really is one of the most horrible feelings you could ever imagine. I think the people that knowingly do this are some of the worst human beings on Earth. If this is a coincidence, I would just like to hear Tapert or Raimi's quote saying so, and my accusations are unfounded and out-of-line. However, until then, I am on a crusade to find out if this was intentional and has duped us all for all these years.
Thanks for taking time to read this.
Martha