Ever since the beginning of Halloween season, and since the redband trailer for its 2013 remake was released, I've been wanting to see Sam Raimi's original horror classic "The Evil Dead". Some of my friends have seen it and regard it as one of their favorite horror movies.
I was upset when I went looking for it over Halloween on Netflix to find that it wasn't there. But of course, in typical fashion, they decided to make it available in November after the Halloween season had ended. Nevertheless, this didn't keep me from immediately jumping at the chance to watch this film.
And I really am glad I did. "The Evil Dead" is awesome bloody fun that actually delivers some genuine scares among the onslaught of cheap special effects. I was under the impression that this may have been a horror-comedy, but I was corrected by a friend who told me that the film isn't so much a horror-comedy as it is a horror movie with a few comedic elements. I agree with this assertion. It wasn't a hilarious horror-comedy like "Zombieland" or "Tucker & Dale vs Evil" or even delivered the same amount of chuckles as Joss Whedon's meta horror flick "The Cabin in the Woods". "Evil Dead" is probably one of the most gut-wrenching horror flicks I've seen, but there were elements that had me laughing out loud. My favorite part was when Bruce Campbell falls into a pit and severs his girlfriend's head. (Hear me out...)
Her headless corpse lands on top of Bruce, and he gets a big ol' burst of blood right in the face from his girl's headless stump. Absolutely repulsive, but I LOL'd so hard. I also enjoyed the twist where the girls change from possessed back to normal again, and then back to possessed. Throws a nifty curveball at our hero, and it's fun to see how he deals with it.
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