The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead is a damn good horror movie. It's complete trash, with one very creative and interesting scene, but the rest is sort of ridiculous. It's low-budget and quite creepy. It's loud and screechy, extremely gory and finally disgusting. Four friends go out to a cabin in the middle of the woods. It's the kind of cabin where everything creaks and the floorboards are made of elastic. One of the girls goes out into the woods and is raped by the trees. She comes back possessed, and eventually transforms into a disgusting zombie-esque creature. All hell breaks loose, as hero Ash (Bruce Campbell) watches his friends turn into disgusting evil dead. He eventually discovers that the book of the dead caused this horror, a book they read aloud and released the evil spirits. There is one pretty great sequence in the film, where director Sam Raimi (of the Spider-Man trilogy) exhibits his talent with awing and creepy cuts. They show Ash attempting to flee from the evil dead. There's so much creativity in this one scene that it practically makes the movie. The Evil Dead is not a very well done film, but it does what a horror film should: it's pretty scary. It's better than average and an achievement for low-budget filmmaking.
The Evil Dead: ★★★1/2