
Five college students take time off to spend a peaceful vacation in a remote cabin. A book and audio tape is discovered, and its evil is found to be powerful once the incantations are read out loud. The friends find themselves helpless to stop the evil as it takes them one by one, with only one survivor left with the evil dead and desperately tries to fight to live until morning.... (Full plot summary below)
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Five college students take time off to spend a peaceful vacation in a remote cabin. A book and audio tape is discovered, and its evil is found to be powerful once the incantations are read out loud. The friends find themselves helpless to stop the evil as it takes them one by one, with only one survivor left with the evil dead and desperately tries to fight to live until morning.
Leave your thoughts about The Evil Dead.
| ESplatterLucius GoreNo, they don't make 'em like this anymore, folks. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawA testament to how bliss and the spark of inspiration can elevate a film of any budget in any genre from routine to sublime. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasThen the carnage comes, and when it does, it delivers on all promises and more, with a parade of gushing wounds, demonic howls, and oceans of gore which approach the line of good taste, toe it, then gleefully dance across. [22 Sept 2010] |
| sbs.isStefan Birgir StefanssonCrude, gory, scary, funny, Sam Raimi relly knows how to make a good movie with almost no money |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanA testament to the power that low budget films still have to disturb us. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeNo-budget horror from Sam Raimi, distinguished by cleverness, bested by its two sequels |
| New TimesLuke Y. ThompsonTerrifying when it came out, hilarious now. Funny thing is it's equally enjoyable either way. |
| FEARnetScott WeinbergEveryone tries to make a horror flick this way. Few succeed like Raimi did. |
| CitysearchDan FazioThink "The Blair Witch Project," but with the witch holding the camera. |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid KeyesThe movie plays like an entry point into the infectious minds of ambitious overachievers, who do exactly what they want and offer no apologies. |