Classic

Rating: Null/10 (1 November 2002)

This is the last in the trilogy I saw, which may have contributed to it's unsecessful attempts atblowing me over. I'll try to be as unbiased as I can.
The film itself is very scary, atmospheric with groundbreaking scenes and effects. It's got a typical horror movie set up but the payoff is unlike any horror film.
The direction is great despite the script being mostly dialogue which only serves it's purpose (which is fine) and the acting is good all round. Bruce Campbell's performance of Ash for the first time is as just one of the group-a whiny scared individual who emerges as the hero and does what he has to-yet not the buff hero of 2 or the humourous jerk hero of Army of Darkness.
Evil Dead II, while not aiming for all out scares but rather just shocks and gags, outdoes this film. That film is part remake, part sequel (the remake is the first 20 mins, a basic simplification of this movie)
So by all means see it, it's a classic. But I think Evil Dead 2 is superior.