Evil dead: one great low-budget ride

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2006)

The evil dead, one of the great low-budget horror films, proves that everyone can do something in a film, that little too no money shouldn't stop you from achieving your goals, and people who don't have sex in horror films can die.
Ash(Bruce Campbell) is camping out with his friends in an old creepy cabin when they find a tape recorder and a ugly-looking book(book of the dead). the voice on the recorder reads out a spell that brings out the demons of another world. Ash is now made almost the antihero when he becomes the last person alive from the horrible ordeal.
This film wasn't always smooth sailing(as if any low-budget film is), the movie in whole took 5 years to make because of lack of funding. You can see Bruce age from age 21 to age 26, you also see him sustain real injuries and many of the cuts on his face during the film are real. Also many of the actors left the film during filming, so many locals were called to finished the characters role, including Sam Raimi(director) and his brother Ted(who is in almost everyone of his brothers films).
Unlike other horror films, there is no sex,("there's no hanky-panky in this film, kids!"-Bruce Campbell). Which makes the film more professional, But Sam still flashed a girl topless just for laughs. Sam tried to capture what real teenagers would do in a cabin miles from the nearest town, But when Bruce inhaled real marijuana smoke in front of the camera for a scene, he was totally senseless(he'd never done drugs before). But still the totally untrained actors tried there best to do every stunt, every emotion, everything that Sam threw at them for as little pay as $100 a week. One of the hardest scene to shoot was the last. How are we to end this film with a good kick? how about...The "Force" running through the house and into Ash. True non-acting locals were called in to do the sequence of doors, noises and Sam himself was behind the camera. He started at a shot of a leaf on the ground, then started running through the woods, through the back door, through the closed doors of the house, out the front door and straight into Bruce. Although there was a rumor that Sam did the whole scene on a motorbike because of the speed the camera seems to be going. The Evil Dead, a real start for Bruce Campbell and for Sam Raimi(who directed Spiderman+Spiderman 2), a true masterpiece for low-budget film history.