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| ![The Evil Dead - Full Uncut Version [1982]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DDJT3Y6ZL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Hal Delrich, Sarah York
Studio: Starz Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 9367
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
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ASIN: B000GL18J0
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
Release Date: September 25, 2006
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 12
 The original classic October 9, 2007
Mr. D. Woods
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sam Raimi's genre-defining splatter-fest still remains one of the most inventive and entertaining horror films ever released. I rather ashamedly admit I only saw this gem for the first time quite recently and I immediately wished I had discovered it years before. br / br /It is quite evident that 'The Evil Dead' has shaped an enumeration of horror flicks across the years and the teenagers-trapped-in-a-remote-cabin them has been recycled to death. Even with its low-budget, and decidedly eighties effects, this film hacks and splices glossier rivals into itty-bitty pieces for sheer entertainment value. More of a serious chiller than its sequels, there is a nice line in black humour pervading the script nonetheless and, of course, Bruce Campbell is utterly fabulous as geeky hero Ash. In fact, I challenge you to come away from this film without uttering the words, " Bruce Campbell is a legend"! His bemused look of incomprehension as the blood count rises (and rise it does, my friends) is one of the film's many enjoyable moments and it is easy to see why Campbell has become such a cult hero. br / br /So, in short, this is one of the greatest horror films of all time. In terms of pure and simple fun, things don't get much better than this. So open up the Book Of The Dead and unleash The Evil Dead onto your DVD player tonight!
I REALLY ENJOYED THIS ENTRY INTO THE ZOMBIE FILM GENRE August 6, 2007
stuart (MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Five friends, Ash, (Bruce Campbell) Scotty, (Richard DeManincor) Cheryl, (Ellen Sandweiss) Linda, (Betsy Baker) and Shelly (Theresa Tilly) head on up to an old cabin for a fun weekend. As they settle in for the night, there's the opening of a cellar door in Linda's room that draws everyone's attention. Scotty descends into the basement and finds a secret room full of artifacts and special treasures, including a strange book and recording that details the resurrection for an ancient species of creatures that feast on human flesh. While listening to the recording, strange things begin to happen. During the night, Cheryl is brutally assaulted and raped by the trees surrounding the cabin. Trying to take her away, Ash finds out that the only road out is no longer usable. Returning back to the cabin, she begins to show symptoms of being possessed by demons. Soon, Ash is the only one not possessed, and he must fight them off to save his insanity. br / br /The Good News: Oh, my god, this was the best movie ever. "The Evil Dead" has to be the best horror film ever. There was so many times that I was jumping during this film I loved it. That is the way a true horror film should be. It holds nothing back, and just throws ordeal after ordeal at the viewer. What makes the film so appealing is that jumps/suspense and gore can go together in a film. This is one gory film. We get one body completely dismembered, with no two body parts connected together, one is stabbed in the foot with a pencil and two are melted down in a long, unbelievably gory way. Both last for a long time as well, so the gore is even more intensive. First, the skin melts away, then the bone starts to melt away and then it just becomes like a giant pool of blood on the floor. There is even more gore inside, and is possibly one of the goriest films of all time. There are very few movies that might be gorier than this one. What makes the gore work so well is that this has so many creepy moments in it that it just makes the gore that much more potent. Anytime the possessed Linda appears on screen, I get freaked out. She is easily the creepiest thing about the movie. Her look, with those blank white eyes, dead man's look make-up and that voice all combine to make her creepy. God, I think that voice alone, though, is more than enough to creep me out. That song she sings all the time is creepy. Even scenes without her are creepy. Ash descending into the basement to look for Scotty after he disappeared is pretty creepy. The low-light in the room, the music playing in the background, Ash's slow, cautionary movements and the odd noises heard from inside the room are perfectly handled, and you are just on edge waiting for the moment when something will pop out and startle someone. That does happen a few times in the movie, and here it works because the viewer is expecting it and it doesn't happen when we think it will. The others are pretty great, as when a pair of hands break through a door and grab Ash around the chest, but the other scene is far better. Everyone knows this is where Bruce Campbell was introduced to the world, and here we get one of his better performances. He is the smart aleck in the later movies, and this one plays it straight. The amount of blood spilled on him throughout the movie is phenomenal that he had to subject himself to that in his first film. All this aside, one of the best things about this movie is the constant use of filming scenes from the demon's point of view. The way that it was filmed is pretty legendary, and the practice of it has become pretty revolutionary and inspirational. We get tons of great, creepy scenes including the opening and ending shots, where we crawl over landscapes in a supernatural way. The ending is great and is a perfect way to end a movie. It sends you out on a high that not too many movies do. br / br /The Bad News: Nothing.
One of the best and most unique horror films ever August 2, 2007
Lando Malak (Sheffield, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
At the time of writing, The Evil Dead is now a quarter of a century old but it is still one of my all time top ten horror movies and it is still capable of giving me the creeps. There are still plenty of timeless moments but the thing that I have always and still really love about this is the creepy camera work and weird noises, I was only a child when I saw this on video not long after it was released but was far too young to understand all the hype and controversy that surrounded it, so from a personal point of view, this just made it all the better. Right from the beginning when the five youngsters are travelling by car on that narrow road alongside those woods and the way in which the camera view hovers over that river as if something evil that cannot be seen is following them, I just had a feeling even at such a young age (I had already seen plenty of horror movies before it and so I was already a converted fan) that this was going to be something like I had never seen before but I wasn't expecting what was about to follow. br / br /Like I said, I love the camera work in this movie for example, when they first arrive at the cabin, the way in which they very slowly drive towards it surrounded by woods and it goes almost deadly silent. For some reason even though absolutely nothing happens when they first arrive, it never fails to give me the creeps when they get out of the car and they all just stand there without saying a word just looking at the cabin as if they don't know what to say or think plus at the same time that thing (I still don't know what the hell it is) outside the cabin which makes that banging noise (and stops when one of them picks up the cabin keys) also for some reason never fails to give me the creeps and I find the whole look of the cabin inside very creepy, all these little underappreciated moments that I find really creepy and this is in the first ten minutes, it just brilliantly plays with my imagination, proof again as far as I am concerned, that the low budget look will always be more scary than any expenisive mainstream blockbuster horror movie can ever be. br / br /Although sometimes the effects in this do look a litte cheap or ridiculous (especially that animation type scene near the end), there are still plenty which are still very effective in my opinion, I still particularly find the eyes by those possessed and the noises that they make truly horrible and that legendary card guessing scene, timeless. br / br /If you have never seen The Evil Dead and you like your horror movies, then the best way I can describe it overall is plenty of blood and guts, funny at times, not at all complex but most importantly it is creepy with some of the best camera and sound effects ever to appear in horror movie. AN UNMISSABLE LOW BUDGET CULT HORROR CLASSIC. br / br /
 evil dead August 2, 2007
crazykat (staffordshire)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of those good horror movies which im pretty sure will be enjoyed by most horror fans. br /I was a little unsure why it was named evil dead though.
Dead and Evil, but alive and fun! April 4, 2007
S. Hart (U.K.)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This movie is the pinicle of the horror movement, probablly the best horror movie ever, just shows how a small team of people with no buget and filming in a gararge can turn out the best movie of it's kind. Sam Raimi started of with a full cast and crew and ended up shooting the movie alone with the remaining cast members who didn't either get bored and go home or found gainful employment during filming! The one thing this film oozes, not only the fake blood, is atmosphere and tension, and it has it in bucket fulls! The creepyness of the atmosphere jumps out from the begining grasps your round the neck and holds you kicking and screaming till the ultimate ending. br /The story is a basic one. A group of teens go out into the woods and rent a cabin, while there they discover items left by the previous occupants, a professor and his wife. The professor has accidentally awoke an ancient evil that begins to possess his wife and in the end him also. The teens accidentlly awake the deamons once again, each one is possessed in turn. By modern standards don't forget that this movie is 25 years old so don't expect it to be bang up to date, the clothes are old, as are the hairstyles and cars. The actors are basic and hammy but manage to pull of what they probably were not being paid for! The special effects are bargain basement but still work well, giving a stomach churning final 15 minutes of the movie. My favourite aspect of this movie is the great unseen evil, depicted by the ground hugging camera effect and sound effects, an effect that remains totally unique to this triogy of movies. The imagination behind all the asects of this movie still remaian strong even after all this time and this movie still manages to convay a sense of spookyness with a few of it's jump out of you'r chair moments. Take my advice, watch this movie when you'r alone in the house, at night with you'r surround on, It will scare you witless! Buy and enjoy.
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