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Movie: Evil dead or Evil Dead; The Book of the Dead
Genre:  Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring:  Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly
Year release date: October 15th, 1981 United States
Win: 3 wins "Saturn Award" and "Catalonian International Film Festival"
This is the first installment of the Evil dead/Army of Darkness series. In the 80, a Slasher horror movie was like this. Some teenagers are doing what normal teenagers do, but then comes a silent psychic killer (whit a knife or any kind of sharp object) from nowhere and kills all the teenagers one by one. But one or two survives and kills the killer, and then they live happily ever after. The End. But Evil Dead is something special.

 In normally in a slasher movie is it a high - budget, but this one coasted Sam Raimi only 375 000 American dollar.

The Plot is about five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in the woods. One of them is Ash Williams (played by Bruce Campbell). He is whit his sister, his girlfriend, his friend and his friend is whit his girlfriend. They are having a good time in the cabin, until Ash and his friend goes to the basement and find "Necronomicon Ex-Mortis" or in Latin "The Book of the dead". While in the basement, they find a tape recorder which is belonging to a professor, who also owns the cabin. One of them plays back what is recorded on the tape, which just happens to be Canadian resurrection passages translated from the book by the professor, which unleashes an evil force from the woods. One of the students start turning into evil dead, and the others soon learn from the tape that the only way to kill a person who is turned into a dead is by total cut the body in pieces . The students are becoming evil dead left and right. It's only Ash who is remaining alive, and it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

The Acting is okay, noting special. Is like the normal acting you see normally. The beast actor in this movie is Bruce.

The Effects is not bad for a low - budget film. But it inset showing much special effect in this movie, and that is kind of a downer to see no much blood in a horror movie

The Music is good, but not memorable. There was little music in the movie, so I couldn't remember so much of it. But it was good, it gave you that creepy feeling.

In final conclusion

This movie is not so scary like I thought it did, but it did scare me some times. What kind a thing? Like an ugly face suddenly appears and covers a third part of the screen whit it screams.

This is good, but it been in the shadows of it own Sequel. The only one who had a career after this movie was Ash him self (Bruce Campbell) and the Director Sam Raimi, which put back Bruce in many roles and cameos of his movies. I recommend this movie, because it class, it story, it horror and it slapsticks comedy.

My rating: 7 Chainsaws out of 10

Plot: 8/10  Acting: 7/10  Effects: 5/10  Music: 6/10