Fantastic!

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 2005)

The original, and maybe the best. Just watched it, borrowed from friend, whilst home alone. Unbelievable. A textbook horror, perfectly formed, excellently timed suspense, great make-up, brilliant pacing. I loved it. A horror masterpiece!
**minor spoilers** I loved the way Ash, at the start, stands with an axe in the corner, whilst Scotty says - "hit her! hit her with the axe!" and he just stands there like, "shiiiiiiiiit!" and does nothing - totally different from the ash we all came to know and love. It rally is a Greuling experience - I feel drained. I think the best thing about it was the way that it could get away with so many clichÃ©s (creaking doors, thunder and lightening, spooky lighting, and the cabin in the woods scenario itself) - because this is it! This is the original, the trail blazer - it defined a sub-genre - survival horror (okay okay, there was Alien, but that's sci-fi) - and I loved every minute. Watch, see, feel sick, reel, close your eyes in digust = all of these are the Evil Dead Experience.
10/10