They are honestly more of a highlight than Ash is in the film. Each is a memorable deadite and brings the creeps, some dark humor/laughs and plenty of menace. They’re all portraying evil insanity in many different was. However, in the finished products, all of them get to shine and nasty demon baddies. They could only be worn for 10 minutes at a time and the eyes couldn’t breathe while they were in. There was a rigorous and brutal makeup process involving massive contact lenses going into their eyes to give the effect.
Well, I’m not sure if it was fun to go through them. The females in this film get all the fun parts. But it’s the following 2 films that give us the iconic Ash that graces t-shirts, video games and dialogue in our pop culture. As a matter of fact, there’s nothing here to quote from him. And even then he’s not the hard-assed B-movie hero we quote so often. It isn’t until he’s pushed to the very limit and completely endangered that he steps up to the plate. He cowers at the thought of being heroic. He’s a complete ‘fraidy cat pacifist who is stunned by all the deadites and such. It feels a part of the story at hand and not an exploitation (which I’m sure was the intent anyway).Ĭompared to the following to films of the series, Ash is a bit of a different character in the original. But unlike some other gore-fests, it all works for laughs and terror.
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This movie is still pretty gory by today’s standards too. The scene in which Linda gets stabbed with a pencil STILL makes my ankle hurt to this day. The Evil Dead is one of those movies that make you yell ouch and feel pain that isn’t happening to you. While the film has its share of continuity errors (who doesn’t notice Hal Delrich’s haircut changing back and forth) and some blurred shots, there’s some really impressive and effective work being done that makes you not care at all about it. Like it was a big shock that one was not alone in their love of this franchise. I just feel that with the internet came the mass influx of Evil Dead love and tie-ins. Personally, I was the kid that was showing it to my classmates and such in school growing up, but only knew like 2 other people who’d heard of and liked it. For some reason, it feels that as soon as the internet became more public, people started discovering that there were more people than just them that liked The Evil Dead. I don’t think the film hit its massive following or big time cult popularity until the 90’s. Little did they know, all their work would turn into a franchise that has spawned sequels, a remake, an INSANE amount of home video releases, multiple video games, figures and comic books. Injuries went untreated, people crammed up in rooms in the cabin you see in the film to sleep and actors has to stuff massive contacts into their eyes to get the demon eye effect to work right. It was a grudging and sometimes brutal shoot for the cast and crew being out in the middle of nowhere. A native of Michigan, Raimi and crew headed south to Tennessee to shoot the film. Sam Raimi was able to muster up $90,000 of his desired $150,000. The film flies by with genuine scares, gore effects and camera techniques truly feeling like a master learning his craft. A super low-budget feature with the drive and ambition of one many times its budget, The Evil Dead holds its own and is able to keep hold, not fall apart and stand the test of time. Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead is one of the kings of cult classics and one of the best horror films to grace the screen. Ash watches his friends become possessed, and must make a difficult decision before daybreak to save his own life The friends inadvertently release a flood of evil and must fight for their lives or become one of the evil dead. There they find an old book, the Necronomicon, whose text reawakens the dead when it’s read aloud. Originally posted on Mendelson’s Memos in 2013Īshley “Ash” Williams, his girlfriend and three pals hike into the woods to a cabin for a fun night away. The Evil Dead actually comes with a really friendly price tag so order yourself a copy from the link below. Its release gives hope that more classic horror titles will be coming (And hopefully soon). Now, the first film (And in December, the sequel) has made its way to the 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray format. Like the Halloween franchise, which I laid out the epic history of last month, all three Evil Dead films have had an ungodly amount of home video releases. The film itself has paved the way for home video infamy as well. It introduced us to Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, both of whom would carve out some terrific legacies in mainstream and geek filmdom. Thirty seven years ago, one of the most nitty gritty, down home and independently independent films of all time came and scared the hell out of audiences.
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