The Evil Dead : This movie is terrible !!!

This movie is terrible !!!

Wow, I have never seen a worst movie than this one before. Everything about this movie is terrible. I know this was done in the 80's where there was a lower budget, but come on !! At least Friday the 13th didn't have so much terrible acting. It is one of the most unintentionally hilarious movie ever, and that itself is not a good thing.

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You probably don't watch too many movies do you...

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I do, and I actually enjoy a lot of really bad horror movies, like Chernobyl Diaries and Urban Legends 2, so I'm not really picky, but this movie was bad, I get that a lot of people feel like they need to like it because it has become somehow a cult classic, but it's beyond ridiculous, I hope the remake is better.

Hasta la victoria siempre !!!

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Ah I breathed a sigh of relief when I read your response and saw that it wasn't just an angry childish one lol. Everyone on these boards gets so angry so fast.

But anyway, yea I don't think it's prefect, it's definitely really old but I appreciate it for what it is I guess. And I only saw it a few years ago. So saying that, I went to an advance screening of the new one I loved it. It was just so fun. And all the "horrible-ness" of the original is now new, HD and beautifully directed.

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Haha yea I know, people get upset over nothing on these boards.
Good to know about the remake.

Hasta la victoria siempre !!!

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Definitely agree Prince, Raimi set out to do a tongue-in-cheek horror flick. Nowadays everyone expects horror to be 100% serious only with no humor. But there is also this type of horror film to contend with and that is a good thing and should be encouraged.

Evil Dead A.D. 2013
http://jerrysaravia.blogspot.com/2012/10/hail-to-king-of-dead.html

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"It is a good thing and should be encouraged".

Yup - that´s because what we have here, is a severe shortage of moronic gore porn with no point, not one single interesting idea in its boney little head, essentially no story or plot, terrible acting, ridiculous dialogue, uneven pacing and not one remotely unsettling scene in its entire 85 minutes. Makes you sort of wonder who might its target audience be. Serial killers?

That´s precisely what the world needs right now.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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a serial killer could kill you

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Definitely agree Prince, Raimi set out to do a tongue-in-cheek horror flick. Nowadays everyone expects horror to be 100% serious only with no humor. But there is also this type of horror film to contend with and that is a good thing and should be encouraged.



I completely disagree. This was meant to be a straight up horror movie. It's not funny anywhere and it's not meant to be. Nightmare on Elm Street was meant to be a little funny. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes wasn't meant to be funny. There's a difference between tongue in cheek and just funny ha ha because the effects or plot are so bad. Did you think the Exorcist or Amityville Horror were meant to be funny? No they weren't, and neither was Evil Dead.

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Evil Dead is goofier in terms of its effects - it is more straight than its sequels but I would not call it a very serious horror flick like Night of the Living Dead or Exorcist.

Jerry at the Movies
http://jerrysaravia.blogspot.com/

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"Nightmare on Elm Street was meant to be a little funny."

The original certainly wasn't.

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The remake is much better than the original if you hate how campy this one is.

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I think people forget that this was Sam Raimi's first feature. He funded it himself (with Bruce Campbell's help) and none of them had any clue what they were doing. UL2, in contrast, had a $15 million budget, studio backing, and was a sequel to a popular film. It had everything in its favor, and still managed to be junk (was there any doubt?). ED was a bunch of friends making a movie. They did their own effects, their own stunts and made up a lot of this stuff on the fly. The pre-possession acting was pretty flat, yeah, but once the women get possessed I thought they did pretty good.

Whatever.

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Hmm, I didn't know it was supposed to be funny and ridiculous, oh well, that explains it then I guess...

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Meh. Shes ok. She has that look that Hollywood seems to over produced way too much. Fair skin ethic/white looking chicks. As if they are frightened to give dark skin or Africanized Blacks, Hispanics or full blooded Asians work.

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I would not compare this to Urban Legends 2... more like Peter Jackson's BAD TASTE or Dead Alive.

EVIL DEAD is VERY campy, schlocky and quirky and...NOT for everybody.

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I think people forget that this was Sam Raimi's first feature. He funded it himself (with Bruce Campbell's help) and none of them had any clue what they were doing. UL2, in contrast, had a $15 million budget, studio backing, and was a sequel to a popular film. It had everything in its favor, and still managed to be junk (was there any doubt?). ED was a bunch of friends making a movie. They did their own effects, their own stunts and made up a lot of this stuff on the fly. The pre-possession acting was pretty flat, yeah, but once the women get possessed I thought they did pretty good.


^^This.

"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit me!"- Hudson in Aliens.

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I recently watched the 2013 version, and decided to watch this one for comparison. I lieterally couldn't watch even half of it. So, so bad.

The acting is awful. The "effects" are cheap and conspicuous.I honestly can't understand why this has achieved cult classic status.
And please don't say I can't appreciate old horror movies, becuase most of my favorites are from the 80's. It isn't that it is old, or even that it is low budget...it is just that its really NOT good.

"That escalated quickly!"

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THANK YOU !!!

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The acting is awful. The "effects" are cheap and conspicuous.I honestly can't understand why this has achieved cult classic status.
And please don't say I can't appreciate old horror movies, becuase most of my favorites are from the 80's. It isn't that it is old, or even that it is low budget...it is just that its really NOT good.


Of course the effects were cheap and conspicuous. Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell funded this movie themselves. Bruce put up his family's property as collateral when they ran out of money. They wrote, produced, directed, and acted by themselves. I think it is remarkable that a group of people could come together with so little money and make a movie such as this. Had it not been successful, Bruce's family would have lost everything.

They never intended this movie to be serious. They meant it to be exactly what it is; campy fun. Kudos to them for having the guts, and the faith in themselves, to make this movie.

It's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years...Abraham Lincoln

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Let me see if I can find a violin to play it while I listen to your sob story

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Please explain how in the hell explaining something is a sob story? I thought you were an okay guy at first, but that response proved your idiocy.

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I'm just saying that the movie, at least for me, was beyond ridiculous, so I don't see how Raimi not having enough money and all that stuff have to do with how the story was told. That is why I called it a sob story, cuz it was mainly said just to get some sympathy.

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Let me get this straight. You talk about it being a low budget movie and everything is terrible. I then tell you what they did to get the movie made and that is a sob story to you?

You then say "one of the most unintentionally hilarious movie ever" which clearly shows the purpose of the movie went right over your head because it was supposed to be funny; hence the term campy.

Campy; adj: of behavior, appearance, or an activity amusing because it is obviously intended to be strange or shocking and seems to be ridiculing itself:

Right over your head.

Money has a lot to do with how a story is told, how can you not know that? You can't find a movie in this day and age where it isn't loaded with tons of CGI and multi-million dollar actors attached. I get the feeling this is the kind of movie you need to see to enjoy.

It's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years...Abraham Lincoln


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Ok, well you have your opinion and that's okay. And yes I enjoy modern movies probably a lot more than I do older ones, but for example I really liked the original Friday the 13th movie and I think that one is as old as this one, and I don't know if they had a bigger budget or what, but that was a good movie, for me at least.

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I saw Friday the 13th (in 1981) before watching The Evil Dead (in 1982). I sincerely thought that the makers of Evil Dead were more talented than the ones of Friday, more out-of-the-box thinking, more daring and more fun. Now we were sure that talent was more important that budget! We had dreams about witches and pain weeks after the viewing. We thought Friday was nice & okay.


-I don't discriminate between entertainment
and arthouse. A film is a goddam film.-

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No, you're just a douche who, contrary to previous statements, IS just trying to ruffle some feathers and get a reaction.

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@georgenevs

Sob story nothing----it's about the fact that Raimi and his crew of friends were making an indie horror film with little to no money (and yes it did effect how the film was made, because they had to make all the special effects and the crazy whacked-out camera moves themselves) and had to struggle to make the entire thing themselves----it took nearly a year to complete it, then another 3 years to the fund/finish the editing of it and actually get a distribution deal. I remember when this film came out, saw it on VHS only a couple of years after it came out, and it creeped me out, because I love horror films anyway. It might not seem that impressive now after decades of gory over-the-top horror flicks, but it was definitely a ground-breaker for its day. And the humor was intentional, I believe, so yeah, it's ridiculous, but fun.

The long flowing camera shots when any of the people were being chased by some unknown force and that last incredible long shot straight through the home are really what has made this film legendary---it certainly made an impression on me seeing it back in the day. Saw it again recently (after having seen the remake,which was okay,but not all that great) and it was still genuinely deranged fun and scary at the same time, which is why it's genuinely incurred this cult classic status over the years.

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It's just another where creative people working with meagre resources create something very effective and memorable but conspicuously doesn't look exactly like a realistic possessed ghoul being gouged, disemboweled and dismembered - A scene which we are all of course very familiar with and won't tolerate a less than authentic depiction of in a movie, regardless of how little money you have compared to your originality and genuine enthusiasm.

@Twitzkrieg - Glasgow's FOREMOST authority

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No one buys your fake photo, big fat guy

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The acting is awful. The "effects" are cheap and conspicuous.I honestly can't understand why this has achieved cult classic status.


Creativity over money.

It is an extremely creative film made with no money and not so interesting plot.
You should be thinking about what came before evil dead and whatch is with the right perspective.

Comparing this to Urban Legend 2 as the OP does is as unfair as comparing Snow White and Heavy Metal.

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my babuin friend....i think that you are ridiculous......please stay in the forest or watch something else....maybe some soap opera's.....

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Regardless of your feelings towards this movie, if this is the worst movie you've ever seen.. you've clearly missed out on some bad stuff, and that's even especially true of the horror genre. Try your hand at this one sometime: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062036/

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If anyone claims this had good and natural acting, then they are the ones who haven't seen many movies. I normally accept all acting and I am not picky at all. The only times I notice bad acting is when it's REALLY bad, and it was nearly unbearable in this one, during normal conversations.

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It was actually intentionally hilarious.

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1. Nice troll
2. If not a troll post, you obviously aren't familiar with the term or physical experience of "tongue-in-cheek" when it comes to this movie, but that's ok, go back to believing in Barry Soetero as your hero.

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And here's an example of a childish response...

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It is one of the most unintentionally hilarious movie ever, and that itself is not a good thing.


Except the hilarity was intentional. This movie was never meant to be taken seriously. It was made to be tongue-in-cheek as were the sequels to it. It was meant to be campy fun, which is probably why I won't see this new adaption. People today tend to go overboard on gore and make their horror movies straight. I think it would be a shame if the fun was taken out of Evil Dead and replaced with gore and a serious tone.

It's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years...Abraham Lincoln

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Cool, that's your personal opinion. MY opinion is that it is not even hilarious, I actually felt second hand embarrassment watching this movie because I was the one who said we should watch it. Anyways, to each his/her own.

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this is truly one of those movies where its so bad its great. it was intentionally campy/cheesey because raimi was learning how to make film by doing it and realized that his inexperience would be rewarded and not criticized if it was a spoof of horror movies of the time.

its a classic movie that was never meant to be a masterpiece


i agree that the jokes suck, the acting is terrible, production values are below

grade, and the directing of the movie is amateurish.but it one of those flicks where the sum is greater than all its parts.

first time i saw it i didnt like it either but a friend urged me to give it a second chance years later and i find that it gets better with every viewing same goes for evil dead 2 witch is even better

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It grew on me too. It's one of those strange film experiences where I couldn't believe how terrible the production value was and hated it for that reason, but on the other hand I was actually very startled and scared when Cheryl first got possessed and everything that happened after that. I actually had to stop watching it after a while because It was getting too much for me, lol.


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it is terrible!!!! watch the remake it is so much better

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I actually burst out laughing when I saw his signature.

Yippee Ki-Yay!

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King Troll.

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Check out this review it pretty much sums it up, i love these movies

http://cinemassacre.com/2007/10/24/evil-dead/
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