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How good is evil dead

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  • 19-07-2011 6:56pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭


    Im going to watch this for the first time tonight, is it any good? is it scary?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    Personally I love it and its in my top 20 horrors of all time.

    Not particularly scary and some of the stop motion animation has aged a bit but its still a super little movie imo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭SheFiend


    Love the Evil Dead trilogy!!!!!! =D Evil dead 2 is basically a remake of the first one, and is better, but first one is good too! I just love Bruce, he's hilarious!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭shadowcomplex


    Personally I love it and its in my top 20 horrors of all time.

    Not particularly scary and some of the stop motion animation has aged a bit but its still a super little movie imo.

    whats your personal best 5 horrors of all time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    SheFiend wrote: »
    Love the Evil Dead trilogy!!!!!! =D Evil dead 2 is basically a remake of the first one, and is better, but first one is good too! I just love Bruce, he's hilarious!

    No,its not better,ever!
    :P
    whats your personal best 5 horrors of all time

    Couldnt possibly pin down just 5 but some of them would include

    The Beyond
    Day of the Dead (1985)
    Halloween (1978)
    Last House on the Left (1972)
    August Underground
    Murder Set Pieces
    Re-Animator
    The New York Ripper
    Ringu
    Martyrs
    Cannibal Holocaust
    Zombie Flesh Eaters
    The Fly (1986)
    The Thing (1982)
    City of the Living Dead
    Hellraiser
    Cannibal Ferox


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,330 ✭✭✭niallon


    The Evil Dead is the barometer for how much you are willing to acknowledge a horror based on technique and skill. The story is crap, the acting is, mostly, horrendous, but the camerawork is stunning, the effects are horribly dated but were incredibly well achieved with what the crew had to work with and the circusmtances under which the film was made were unreal, pick up Bruce Campbell's "My Name Is Bruce" book on his career for more info if you enjoy it, which you will!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    i much prefer II but the first is excellent as well
    the first is a horror film with a comedic side whereas the second is a comedy with a horror side
    and the third is just out and out comedy :)

    All hail to the king baby!


  • Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭SheFiend


    Skerries wrote: »
    i much prefer II but the first is excellent as well
    the first is a horror film with a comedic side whereas the second is a comedy with a horror side
    and the third is just out and out comedy :)

    All hail to the king baby!
    Groovy ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 556 ✭✭✭MudSkipper


    Skerries wrote: »
    All hail to the king baby!
    SheFiend wrote: »
    Groovy ;)

    Duke?? That you? All out of bubble gum again eh... time to kick some @ss

    back OT, evil dead is deservedly a classic, yes the stop-motion has not aged at all, the acting is so-so (when does Bruce not ham it up?) but it's a landmark movie with a huge impact

    /wonder why Otis lists re-animator as fav, it was mediocre at best... then again I'm a lovecraftian and thought it made a mess of great story :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    Ive never been into Lovecraft anyway so maybe thats part of the reason but its just a brilliant splatter flick from start to finish with lashings of dark humour,funny one liners and some great gore effects.

    I got to see it in May on the big screen in the IFI so that was a total kick.


  • Registered Users Posts: 556 ✭✭✭MudSkipper


    big screen would be nice alright...

    For those interested, Lovecrafts original short is here and although the writing style shows its age, the story stands alone and has no connection to any of the (regularly confusing/convoluted) Chtulu mythos HP is known for


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭shadowcomplex


    No,its not better,ever!
    :P



    Couldnt possibly pin down just 5 but some of them would include

    The Beyond
    Day of the Dead (1985)
    Halloween (1978)
    Last House on the Left (1972)
    August Underground
    Murder Set Pieces
    Re-Animator
    The New York Ripper
    Ringu
    Martyrs
    Cannibal Holocaust
    Zombie Flesh Eaters
    The Fly (1986)
    The Thing (1982)
    City of the Living Dead
    Hellraiser
    Cannibal Ferox

    I would add switchblade romance to that list


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    why do you have Day of the Dead in your list when Night of the living Dead and Dawn of the Dead are much better films?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    Emmm,because I prefer Day and I personally think its the best of the series?

    :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭SheFiend


    Peter Jackson's Brain Dead = Excellent film! Comedic horror, stop motion, and laughs galore! Also held the title, for a while, for the biggest body count in one scene, due to the lawnmower slaughter scene. <may or may not be true :rolleyes: Totally recommend it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    SheFiend wrote: »
    Peter Jackson's Brain Dead = Excellent film! Comedic horror, stop motion, and laughs galore! Also held the title, for a while, for the biggest body count in one scene, due to the lawnmower slaughter scene. <may or may not be true :rolleyes: Totally recommend it!

    I think you are right but it was taken over by Olaf Ittenbachs Premutos.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭spooky donkey


    Well big thumbs up form me.......


  • Registered Users Posts: 593 ✭✭✭cavemeister


    Some more to add..

    Ichi the Killer
    The Devils Rejects
    The Thing
    IT - Not for gore but purely for tapping into childhood fear (for me anyway)
    And finally....
    See a movie that cost nothing to make, made 100's of millions of dollars and if watched alone, in the dark and the sound turned up, will be one of the creepiest movies you will ever see... Paranormal Activity!!


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