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Rating: 6/10 (16 December 2015)

Evil Dead (1981): Dir: Sam Raimi / Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, Betsy Baker, Sarah York: Innovative low budget horror film about the final form of pain, which is ultimately death. This film takes it further with a possessed forest that possesses people into a zombie like state. It opens with a car load of college kids heading to the mountains to a remote rundown cabin. The moment they arrive to a bridge that nearly crumbles beneath them they should have turned back. At any rate they get acquainted and find the book of the dead in the basement. From there the words are enacted and all hell breaks lose. One of the females ventures outside and is raped by vines and possessed tree branches. This is a highlighted moment and perhaps the most disturbing scene in the entire film. This is truly weird and soon enough the other three women are possessed and acting weird. One of the males attempts to flee and is attacked and barely makes it back. Bruce Campbell is the only actor with anything to work with and he is constantly blasting giggling female zombies with a shovel to the head and burying them. This does not end well but director Sam Raimi is innovative with passable special effects that are more applause worthy than not. This is a satire of the classic Living Dead films that contains a few laughs and promises greater things for Raimi. Score: 6 ½ / 10