This one is pure VHS gold!!!!!!!!!!
An original video nasty!!!!!!!!!!
Long before Spiderman, even before Xena Warrior Princess, director Sam Raimi gave us The Evil Dead. God bless him. My first memories of this classic are clips of it being shown on lunchtime BBC news saying it was banned as one of many notorious "video nasties"!
It was a good few years later when it was re-released on VHS, sans tree rape scene, that I finally got to watch it. And it rocked! The film begins pretty formulaic, a group of teenagers get stranded in a log cabin in the middle of a gloomy wood, but once the action kicks in Raimi gives us some truly original masterpieces.
The kids find an old tape recorder and start to play some of the reels of tape, the recordings are of incantations from the
Morturom Demonto, or
Book of the Dead. These incantations begin to awaken the evil spirits which attack and possess the group, one by one. Cue plenty of blood and cries of "dead by dawn, dead by dawn!"
The victims are picked off pretty sharpish, and the film then centres on lone survivor Ash, the brilliant Bruce Campbell, his torment by the demons and fight for survival.
The special effects are slightly questionable by today's standards, but for Raimi's budget back in the early eighties they were absolutely fantastic and are still quite a spectacle. Anything involving a chainsaw or an eyeball is a guaranteed stonker.
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