The Evil Dead (Limited Edition) (DVD)

What would you class The Evil Dead as? Its not a straight horror film, sure there are scares but in between are nodding references to how silly horror films can be. So its probably best to say that it is a comedy horror, whichever it is closest to, comedy or horror, it does well on both counts. The Evil Dead has had a colourful past. Originally entitled ‘The Book of the Dead’ the distributors wanted something a bit more meaty and so ...
...made an early film ‘Within The Woods’ to help fund The Evil Dead. You wouldn’t think it but it was 3 years in the making, however because it was so hard to get the meagre budget of $50,000 production had to keep stopping and starting all the time, so try and spot the characters age during the movie. Released uncut so they wouldn’t have the unmarketable ‘X’ rating in 1982, a time where horror films were still in ...

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...teenager, watching this movie for the first time. The beginning was instantly drawing and very creepy. A camera falling over a vast and deep lake that looked both unnerving and mesmerising. This was my first introduction to the world of Sam Raimi, a man who would go on to direct such movies as Spider-Man and The Gift. His camera work and ‘vision’ as to how a film should be crafted to me is second to none. He makes a film exciting. But as that spotty ...
...– very much so. The story is quite simple. Five buddies go to a log cabin in the woods. They are there to spend a good time, drinking, perhaps having a laugh. But there they discover the Book Of the Dead, bound in human flesh and written in blood. Once they begin to recite words from this book, ‘The Evil Dead’ start to rise. They start to take possession of the various members of the group. First is Cheryl, who after being ‘raped’ by the trees (these ...

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...elm street) to evil dead the original horror movie. The budget for this film was set at $300,000 and by todays standards thats like compering a penny to a pound. I first watched the second edition of this movie 'Evil Dead 2 - Dead By Dawn' at my friends house with five other mates. We couldn't stop laughing because it was full of hilarious one liners and looked poorly made. knowing this movie cost $3,000,000 to make, 10 times more than the first ...
...is a must see. The story is a simple one. Five college students venture into the wooded mountains of Tennessee to spend a weekend of fun in an isolated cabin. Whilst here they tread upon the book of the dead or the necrominicum as it is known. They also find a tape recording of a professor who has been to the cabin and witnessed the terrible goings on there. This was now famous horror movie director Sam Raimi's first film which was followed by ...

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...that I’m an expert on the Horror genre. No sir, no way. Far better to simply enjoy a film, or type of film in it’s own right rather than compare it to others of it’s ilk. The Evil Dead films on the other hand are different in every respect and are(in my opinion) the be all and end all of horror moves. I can remember peaking round the living room door decades ago while my dad watching the second instalment and recall being *ahem* scared to the point ...
...with spine tingling fear when the original Evil Dead was released onto video and now DVD. The plot itself is in no way special, five college students decide to venture into the woods surrounding the mountains in Tennessee to chill out in a cabin far from the reach of civilisation (hence being shot in Morristown Tennessee). This is how the film starts, kind of like Friday the Thirteenth or the Texas Chainsaw massacre (where you sit back hating the ...

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...price subscription to Film Four, the digital Channel Four film channel, we leapt with delight! Our reason for this glee was not that we are complete saddo's, but was due to the fact that we were going to subscribe anyway - because a certain movie was to be screened on Film Four that my partner was desperate to see again, and I was desperate to see full stop! Now this film was the cause of much controversy and outrage when it was first released ...
...talked about as the most shocking horror movie at the time, and in the playground the most popular boys would brag about obtaining counterfeit copies and watching it on Betamax video (!)- much to the envy of the rest of us normal kids. When we settled down to watch this film I was scared. I honestly thought that I would be in for a real frightening experience, and made sure I had my duvet to hide behind before the film started. With baited breath ...

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The Evil Dead is a rather class film if you ignore the improbable story. Five college students named Ash (Bruce Campbell), his sister Cheryl, his girlfriend Linda, his best friend Scotty, and Scotty's girlfriend Shelly go to a cabin in the woods and discover a book called the Necronomicon, translated the Book of the Dead. They play a tape recorder with chants from the Necronomicon and the evil dead is awakened in the woods and begins to possess the ...
...take over thirty minutes for the suspense to begin and for a film 85 minutes long that's almost half the film gone. The plot is a bit too much like The Exorcist, The Shining, and The Haunting. However it is a shining example of this genre. The film is a good vehicle to show off Sam Raimi's directorial talent, which he has plenty of. He's a truly stylish director and one of the best in the horror genre(I consider George Romero the best). The blood ...

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...a digitally remastered version of the film which made him a "star". The film is ferociously original and consists of 5 vacationing college students who are willing to have a slumber party weekend in an old run down cabin in the dark grizzly woods. During there stay they happen to find a record and put it onto the record player, just to......you got it... awake the dead. The record contains a secret chant which wakes many slumbering demons, and they ...
...One by one the students have run ins with the demons, and become possessed. The innocent begin to suffer and the guilty must be punished. But who will there be left to become a hero? Well as the night wanes only one man remains...Ash (Bruce Campbell). Ash has to save himself as well as figure out the secret of the evil dead so he can return all his friends into happy humans instead of gory globs of gourmet gonads! This movie, although made on a ...

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...trip to a cottage in the country, or rather far out in the woods. The woods seem to want to keep the new visitors. Everything out there seems to be alive, the trees the stones, the ground they walk on. A dark secret is burried out there and without knowing it, the younsters are about to bring it to life when they enter the basement of the cottage and find a taperecorder. Along with the recorder is a tape that has been recorded a long time ago by ...
...life... One by one the young men and women become aware of the horrible secret, something evil that's been waiting for new victims for a long time... The actors, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, Sarah York and Betsy Barker starring in "Evil dead" are performing well, quite convincing, better than many other young new stars of today. The director, Sam Raimi, who is also the director of newer good pictures like "Darkman", "Spiderman" and ...

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...a little cabin out in the woods. they're having a good time out in the middle of nowhere when they find a strange old book (the necronomicon, or "book of the dead"). thinking that it's just hooey, the two guys in the film recite the incantations written in the book, not heeding the warnings written on paper and left on tape by the paranormal researcher who was there before them. seems he was playing around with the spirit realm, and that it resulted ...
...by evil spirits released when the words in the book were spoken, and turned into "zombies" (pretty much; they are at first alive, but can still move around even after they take more beating than the average human can). pretty soon ash is the only one left untainted, and he has to fight against what was once his friends to survive the night. the concept is a unique one and really hasn't been exploited that much (surprisingly, considering what a cult ...

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One of the better horror/comedy gene of the last few years. Ash (Bruce Cambell) takes him girlfriend up to deserted forest cottage, for a quiet weekend away. What they find is an ancient book, which when they read unleases an evil spirit into the world. This spirit terrorises Ash, his girlfriend, and four others that come to the house. Of course they defeat the evil spirit, but Ash gets transported to another dimension, a great link to the next film. ...
...then hiding behind the sofa next scene. It's quite a gory film with red, green, black & blue blood flowing & gushing freely. Humour is greatly used and never feels out of place. The monsters are particularly good, only let down by a few seconds of "stop-go animation". Everyone has their own favourite moment from this film, mine are - the hand, and the eyeball scenes. You should be able to get this on VHS for £5 or so, but I would go for the DVD, ...

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...is for me one of the best Splatter/Horror films ever. The story is simple: A bunch of young, ordinary and healthy "Kids" make their holidays in a small cabin deep in the woods. After a short time they find an old book, a tape recorder and a knife or something like that. They decide to hear what is on the tape but unfortunately they call the ghosts of the wood. The only way to stop this demon force is to cut the bodies into small pieces. The main ...
...a very nice job, but the rest of the cast is good too. Sometimes they overact a little bit, but that's okay. The special Make Up Designer did a great job. I have never seen such great gore effects like some of that which were shown here. And, I mean this Film is some years old. So, if you like good Splatter-Films, with a nice bit of humour, this one is the right one! ...

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...to me, and I bought the DVD just because it looked good (it looks like the Book of the Dead and is all spongy!). Now... a year later, I love the film! First of all, this film is not that scary, if you want scary, stay the hell away from this. Secondly, if you want a laugh, and by laugh I mean both at the action and sometimes the bad effects, then this is the ticket. The film opens with Ash and his friends heading out to a little shack in the middle ...
...After finding "The Book of the Dead", some idiot decides to play the cassette translation!!! Now we are in for some fun! There are some memorable lines through out the film and some very funny moments. Think Charlie Chaplin meets Zombie. Non-stop action and great effects (by great effects I mean they are not realistic but great anyway). This film is my best film of all time! So naturally I think nothing bad of it. However, I admit the acting is ...

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Evil dead is one of the tackiest, cheesiest films you're ever likely to see. It is one of the few films around, that you're going to laugh at, when you're not supposed to. And that's it's appeal. In fact, it's about as scary as "trap door", the cartoon series. Yes, horror movies have come a long way, since the early 1980's, yet Evil Dead has managed to survive the test of time, and still provide us with new entertainment. When Raimi originally created ...
...factor, the ability to chill his audience into a state of absoloute fear. Indeed, i'm sure the millions of people who watched it were. Today, however, modern audiences demand more sophisticated special effects, super famous actors, and larger budgets. Yet, despite Evil Deads age, it has generated something new. It has inadvertadly, generated a comedy value, from it's serious attempt to be terrorfying. ...

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...when it came round in the early 80s. I was considerably younger then and it absolutely scared me senseless. I think it was more to do with the fact that I was so young rather than the film being so scary. The story follows a group of college student friends who embark on a weekend away to a log cabin in the woods. They discover an old tape player in the cellar and decide to play it. The words on the tape awaken a sinister force in the woods and ...
...But, in today's cut version, the impact is far less. You miss the notorious tree rape scene (honest!) and there are far less blows/hacks/punches to each of the zombies tahn before. It's testament to the way we have changed as a society that the new repackaged version is sold more as a comedy horror that a pure horror. I can assure you that I did not find it funny when I first saw it - it didn't surprise me that it became a video nasty! ...

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...seen both this original and the two (dreadful) Sam Raimi sequels and I still can't see what the fuss is about. The guy swings the camera about like a hugely over enthusiatic film student and puts as much gore and visual violence in shot as he thinks he can get away with and he's suddenly a good director. No he's not. I felt the same watching Guy Ritchies massively over rated Lock Stock ie nick every other directors ideas and stick it all together ...

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