Low budget horror at its finest, The Evil Dead brings us our first glimpse of Sam Raimi and "The Chin" Bruce Campbell in a film that like a down home Exorcist. A group of five youths (line borrowed from TCM '73) head for a cabin in the Tennessee mountains only to discover the work of a researcher and the now legendary Book of the Dead and, of course, this is where the fun begins.
It's true that the dialogue and some of the situations that occur are not developed very well, the sheer terror of the film is 100% right on. The idea of a cabin in the woods where your nemesis is the woods is an unfathomable concept for someone to digest. Raimi uses this perfectly as the group get picked away one by one, but it's not the standard horror fare of the survivor finding bodies strewn all over the place. It is this lucky person that has to perform the final cut to save himself.
The Evil Dead is a classic horror film that has grown beyond its hokey beginnings in the hills of Tennessee. A creepy film that will have your heart racing throughout its 87 minute running time.
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