A legendary Cult Classic that spawned the Grooviest trilogy in History

Rating: Null/10 (19 January 2008)

OK, let's start the review with a simple math question, shall we? What do you get, when you go into the middle of the woods, with $375,000, a camera, six college students, a script, and a car? If you answered one of the greatest franchises and concepts ever, you are correct. If not, please leave this review.
The Evil Dead has touched geeks all over the world, me included. It has spawned comic books, merchandise, a groovy musical, and video games. Along with many spin-offs of it's most popular and beloved character - Ashley J. Williams. It even made the director, Sam Raimi, famous. You may also remember him from the Spider-man trilogy.
The Evil Dead has also gained one of the largest cult followings in the history of dorkiness, probably only behind classics like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' and 'Star Wars'. And that' saying something.
The plot is very simple. Teens go up into a cabin, and get killed. Only difference is that in this certain movie, the main character survives, but only to get possessed, attacked again, and then thrown into the past to save an army, and eventually to save a convenient store from a demon... But perhaps that's giving a bit too much away.
Now, the idea sounds very clichÃ©, yes, but like all great horror movies, it was once original. Stephen King once called The Evil Dead 'The most ferociously original horror film of the year'. I may hate King, but at least he got it right once.
The movie stars.... Yup, you guessed it, Bruce mother fu(c)king Campbell as Ashley J. Williams. This single movie turned Bruce into one of the biggest cult actors of all the time. You may also remember him from the Spider-man trilogy. Remember? The man who named and defeated the title character? Eat your heart out, Venom.
So, Ashley/Bruce brings his girlfriend Linda (typical brunette), his sister Cheryl (typical nerd), his best friend Scott (typical pervert), and his girlfriend Shelly (typical slut) up into the middle of the woods. They find an abandoned cabin, and decide to spend the weekend there. Sounds like a dream vacation, dosen't it?
And let me just say, like any good horror flick, chaos followed - A lot of chaos. From the horrifying scene where Ash's sister gets raped in the woods (by a fu(c)king tree no less). To the classic scene where Ash had to butcher all his friends into little chunks (spoiler). To the nightmare inducing scene where Ash finds out that an evil force destroyed the only bridge back to civilization. Make sure to bring the whole family!
Paranoia, loneliness, ever ending dread, and endless loss of familiarness and the things we love makes The Evil Dead a hard watch for the weak minded. But I'm not writing this review for you pussies, am I? Plus there's also the X-rated gore and violence that is vomit and nightmare worthy also... Which makes it not of the weak stomach either... But again, GTFO if you are.
The Evil Deas remains as one of the scariest movies ever made, and a career starting success. The sequels would also get a lot more scarier, a lot more funnier, and a lot more overall awesome.
This movie would also spawn the first franchise where not one of the three films shared the same main genre. Last but not least, it also invented it's own kind of fu(c)king camera style (the 'point of view').