Classic Friday : The Evil Dead (1981) 8/10

Starring : Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, Betsy Baker, Sarah York
Director : Sam Raimi
Running Time : 83 mins

A group of young people travel up to a cabin in the woods, where they discover the Book Of The Dead, the Necronomicon. The cabin’s previous occupant, a professor of archaeology, has made a recording of the translation which raises the dead, and when the group play it back the Evil Dead are released once again, and the only way to kill someone once they become infected with a Deadite is to completely dismember their corpse!

This is the ultimate video nasty, and has stood the test of time, maybe not in terms of special effects, but definitely in terms of pure scare factor. Not many people can watch this without grimacing at least on one occasion, and that’s what makes this movie so special.

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