Evil Dead, The

Great movie used but in great condition, very hard to find on blu ray

I'm pretty sure I cant say anything NEW about this film that my drones of fellow horror film fanatics haven't already said, but heck, why not try? My dad first introduced me to the Evil Dead series when I was about ten years old, back in '04 or '05. I'd never seen a Sam Raimi film, except for the Spider Man films. Since I left the womb I'd been watching horror films, I remember being like eight years old and skimming the racks in my small video store for the weirdest, craziest horror film I could find, sometimes renting crap, and other times renting insane and awesome movies like Saw 1(I dont care for the other Saw movies) or stuff like Cabin Fever. Yes, I watched movies like this in my prime youth, well, maybe not eight, but like ten or eleven. But when my dad popped in his old VHS of Evil Dead 2, I didn't like it, in fact, I thought it was retarded. Wait! Dont pull those triggers yet, fire squad, let me explain. I was ten, okay? I didn't get, nor was I fan at the time of campy films. But then a year or two later, I saw Evil Dead on IFC. THAT changed my view FOREVER on horror films. I was amazed by it, the cinematography, its complete and absolute awareness of what it was, and what it wanted to be, Bruce Campbell, oh, what a sexy beast, and the forest rape scene! Come on! It was hilarious, out there, insane, crazy, scary, and just fun. It was a thrill ride, and I knew I had discovered something amazing. I went back and watched Evil Dead 2, and finally liked it. In fact, I loved *it* as well, not nearly as much as Evil Dead, but still loved it. Then I saw Army of Darkness, and well, lets just say when I first saw AoD, I crapped myself in the wake of its awesomeness. Evil Dead is one of those films that, if I'm having a late night horror film marathon, which I have like, once every four weeks or so, it has to go first, second, or last. In front, after Re-Animator, or just after Hills Have Eyes(original, remake sucked). Its one of those films thats not only just a grand tour de force in horror, but also inspiring, and lets you realize that you too could make films, you just need the right ingredients for the meal. :)

But we fans of "Evil Dead" certainly don't care. It's not his singing skills we're interested in. What we want to know is this; can the man still decapitate with the swing of a shovel? Well, of course he can! As long as you own this or "Evil Dead II" you'll get to watch him do it over and over as often as you want. For me, this is the scene that defines what "Evil Dead" is all about in a nutshell: -Creative camera work. -Spirited if not talented actors. -Audacious, imaginative gore. -Spook-house fun. With one swing of a shovel, Ashley (Ash/Bruce Campbell) defines the mood of this film. But maybe I should start at the beginning and slice this film up into little pieces. Only then will I truly bring honor to Sam Raimi's seminal film of the horror genre. -5 WHEELS HEAD FOR THE RICKETY OLD CABIN. This film moves at a blindingly fast pace. If you ever get bored watching "Evil Dead" regardless of what you think of it, then I don't want to be you. About 3 minutes into the film, we get POV (point of view) shots through the woods watching our 2 couples, Ash and Linda (Bruce and Betsy Baker), Scott and Shelly (Richard DeManincor and Theresa Tilly) along with Ash's sister, Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss); the fifth wheel I eluded to, driving up to the isolated and run down cabin. It doesn't take long for all hell to break loose after a recording found in the cellar is played with magic words in it. The words in German are: "Sam and Rob, Das ist Hikers Dan dee Roadsa" translated to mean "Sam and Rob are the Hikers on the road". Of course, this references Raimi and executive producer Robert Tapert who were portraying local yokels on the road leading to the cabin. Regardless of Raimi's goofy devices, fifth wheels are usually where all the trouble begins and those magic words aren't ones to ignore the rules. This thinnest of plots becomes one of the great scaffolds of horror ever put to film. -WHEN SETTING THE STANDARD IS NO STANDARD AT ALL. If there was a gorier, sloppier more audaciously violent film prior to "Evil Dead" I want to know what it is (because I want it!). I believe this film set the standards for eliminating standards in a horror movie. Even by today's "standards", "Evil Dead" can still hold its own for balls-out gore and grossness while still being a load of fun. Though the demonic makeup is a bit goofy by today's measurements, I still admire the vision of the work. At the very worst you see seams, wrinkles and flaws. At the very best, it is still very creepy and grotesque. The only standard this film didn't stretch was in the nudity department (as there really isn't any). However, when getting raped by a tree is ok, well... ...enough said. -SCARY? OH YEA! As horror films age, they tend to lose their visceral impact. Even horror classics fail to scare people most of the time with few exceptions. After nearly 30 years this film still holds up very well to its modern rivals. Though more over-the-top than anything that preceded, "Evil Dead" could still disturb the uninitiated. For me, few things are scarier than demonic possession. A demon is invisible, moves indiscriminately, is deceptive by nature and is in a hurry to get your soul. So, anyway it can get you dead is fair game. This movie plays on all those angles to the hilt. The big surprise with "Evil Dead" was the physical state possession left people in. This took "The Exorcist" to a different level. The funny and great thing is most of the actors are better at being possessed than human. Of course, Raimi's POV camera shots might be the scariest innovation employed in this film. Regardless, it all adds up to a nearly timeless horror experience. -HI I'M BRUCE CAMPBELL. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER ME FROM "DOG SOLDIERS". Yea, I'm kidding. That was a characters name in "Dog Soldiers"; clearly a case of a director paying his respects to a horror icon. Needless to say, Bruce is the undisputed king of camp and B-movie horror. He's even had his "A-movie" cameos (Spider Man films etc.). But this is where it all started for him. In retrospect, he was an awful actor in "Evil Dead", yet he brought a sense of slapstick to horror that was both fun and refreshing. He'll never win an Oscar (for what it's worth) but he has had a long and storied career since his initial portrayal of Ash. Amazingly, the other actors in "Evil Dead" may have actually done a better job than Bruce, but they lacked his persona. They have all become legendary for this film but have never translated that into successful film careers for a bunch of different reasons. To learn more about this, particularly the women, a little book is included with this version of "Evil Dead" titled "The Ladies of the Evil Dead". Boy, that's clever marketing, -WHICH VERSION IS THE BEST? I have no freaking clue! The "Evil Dead" series may be the most reproduced and exploited horror series ever. If you can find a series of titles more reproduced in more varied levels of quality (excluding Star Wars), then I'd like to know what it is. Given this, I don't know if one version is more complete than another. I have the one with the green outlined letters with Bruce Campbell's kisser poking through and the girl reaching up. This version has the little book in it. It's good enough for me. -PUTTING MY SOUL ON THE LINE As low as the budget is, as clunky as the acting gets, as thin as the plot is, "Evil Dead" is a landmark horror movie. Horror films that came before could be viewed as sluggish. Much of what came after could be viewed as derivative. Regardless of these iconic traits, "Evil Dead" is just flat out entertaining. Who cares where it came from or where it's going. Forget my fan-boy rambling and just sit down on Halloween night and watch "Evil Dead", "Evil Dead II", and "Army of Darkness". If you enjoy audacious, in-your-face, balls-out horror done on the cheap, then this will do it for you. Story.......3 stars Gore........5 stars Acting......3.5 stars Creativity..5 stars Fun factor..6 stars Average....4.5 Stars

Don't get me wrong -- I'm a total Evil Deadhed all the way through. I was just disappointed in the features that should have been a bang-zoom kind of explosion that ended up being some type of Roman candles. Okay, but not what I was expecting. First the good -- the cover is excellent. Kind of this squishy latex foam (stinky) cover to simulate human skin -- it's also chock full of Tom Sullivan's drawing. Artistically, pretty cool but not great to stack with your DVDs. FANanalysis, the documentary by Bruce Campbell was great. Bruce takes Evil DeadHeads behind the scenes at conventions and offers an intimate portrayal of himself interacting. Although it was very short (23 minutes) I thoroughly enjoyed watching this little gem of an addition to this DVD. A must-see. The sound and picture of the Evil Dead is outstanding. Considering this was a cheaply made film, MAN did they clean everything up and clarify all the details of the movie. Probably the best I've seen. Plus, there are some Easter Eggs in this DVD. At main menu: Egg 1: go to EXTRAS highlight "trailer" > arrow left that should highlight a fish, click it (this will play a screen test for the animation of one of the zombies) Egg 2: at EXTRAS click "more" highlight "fanalysis" > arrow left that will highlight a skull, click it (this features a short film of a discussion of Evil Dead. Robert Tapert and the actresses who play Linda and Shelly discuss a little about what went on during the filming. Robert briefly mentions his wife <who is the actress who plays Xena for those of you who didn't know> Also talks a bit about their next film collaboration that could be the 4th Evil Dead) Now, the not-so-great. Well, unfortunately, the prequel "Within the Woods" was apparently pulled by some yahoo guy at the last minute at Columbia. Why, we don't know but I know a number of fans were really ticked about this. Don't despair! Surf the web and you'll find ways of getting a bootleg --albeit a crappy copy, but it's out there. And you have GOT to see it -- you will see all the inspiration for Evil Dead including the parts that ended up transferring over to the next two flicks. The commentary was cut into two sections: Bruce by himself and Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi on the other. If you have the Evil Dead 2 special edition, you'd appreciate the commentary for the way they kid each other. Bruce is great with technical details but I think they should have had him comment with Sam and Rob. Sam has a tendency to get into his flicks and go quiet so there were long pauses despite the fact Rob was with him. They should have had the three of them together for one commentary as it is too much fun listening to them all kid each other and laugh about how they pulled Evil Dead off. At one point, Rob questions why they separated them for the commentaries (which tells me it wasn't their idea) and I missed their friendly bantering. The outtakes section was interesting, but boring. I got the impression it was them messing up and laughing, but alas, it was merely unused takes and footage. Not bad, but probably interesting for die-hard fans only. Overall, it's a good DVD, but incomplete. I get the impression that "Within the Woods" is thought of by the studios as a money-maker which might be why they pulled it at the last second. If this is apparent, then hopefully the hesitant studios will realize that the Dead series is a money maker and offer the funds for a new flick. Good for die-hard fans, decent collectable.

Incredible condition! This is so great I love this movie and love the dvd the evil dead is a masterpiece. I bought for relatively cheap in (like new) condition and it came just like that. Rare too

Ever since its release back in 1979, Sam Raimi's "ferciously original horror film (Stephen King)" has stood in a class all its own simply because no movie has ever been able to truly succeed it. The film's only true superior is its immediate sequel "Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn," but most of us already knew that, so we won't count that one in the grand scheme of things. When "The Evil Dead" was released, it was so totally gory, repulsive, funny, and scary that people couldn't decide whether this was visionary-ahead-of-its-time-filmmaking or a total waste of brain cells. The more intelligent among us recognize it as art in a genre during which time was just being rebirthed, thanks to the success of John Carpenter's masterful "Halloween," which paved the way for pretty much every horror film that came after it. But Raimi didn't do what most of the filmmakers of the eighties tried to do, which was to basically copy the "Halloween" formula down on paper and make a new script with it. No, he had something much darker in mind; something that dwelt within the woods and could be reawakened by the incantations of an ancient book: Nocturum de Morto - The Book of the Dead, later renamed Necronomicon Ex Mortis, which was later abused by producer Brian Yuzna for the awful H.P. Lovecraft film called "Necronomicon." The book, which served as a passage way to the evil worlds of the beyond was translated and studied by Professor Raymond Knowby, who used a tape recorder to record the phonetic pronounciations of the book's passages, not fully knowing exactly what he was doing with it. The professor ended up dead (we assume) after his wife attempted to kill him while possessed. But the professor reveals one vital clue as to how to destroy the demons in human form: Bodily dismemberment. Do we actually see this? Yes we do, and it actually looks realistic enough to churn a stomach or two. Yet, despite all of this seriousness, the acting of the film is so purposely bad that we realize that we're seeing more than a horror film: This is a satire. "The Evil Dead" was not made in bad taste, as its more hateful critics hypothesized, but on the contrast, it is about bad taste, and about making fun of bad taste in a new way. Not only do we see evidence of this in the bodily dismemberment of one inhabitant of the cursed cabin, but in the "raping" of another, the stabbing in the ankle of yet another, and the decapitation of the same "yet another." This movie is so full of Karo syrup and latex it would've been easy for it to get lost along the way, but Sam Raimi keeps the film along the same track the entire time, lighting the path with lanterns of dark humor, and it never steps wrong. At its center is a sympathetic Bruce Campbell performance, amazing camerawork for such a low budget, and enough gore for an entire room of blood-and-guts hounds. You gotta love it.

Excellent!

The Evil Dead is among my favorite horror movies of all time, I understand why many people prefer the sequel for it's more comedic tone and superior cinematography, but in my opinion nothing quite matches the dark and foreboding atmosphere of the the original. There is plenty of genuine criticism to to leveled at this film (Sam Ramie Himself is on record saying that he probably would not have included that bit with the tree, you know which one I'm talking about, if he were to make the movie again) and it's definitely not for the faint of heart of anyone with sensitive triggers, but if you're a gore hound, practical effects enthusiast, or horror fan and you haven't seen it then you owe it to yourself to correct that, and this edition is the best version currently available on DVD for the best value. This Edition contains two cuts of the film, one in widescreen and one in fulllscreen, each on their own disk with a plethora of extras, including commentary tracks with Sam Rami and Bruce Campbell, as well as a third disk of all extras titled "Women of the Evil Dead," which includes a making of documentary, original promotional material, and a whole bunch of other stuff. The package is all presented very well in an aesthetically pleasing, although slightly over-sized, box set full of very nice artwork, as well as a medium sized double sided poster with the original movie poster art on one side (the one on the cover), and a re-shot and colourized version of the image on the reverse side. Overall, this is an amazing package for the price, and if you are among the few who have never experienced the original brilliance of The Evil Dead then this set is a great opportunity to do so.

Ware erhalten+++++Bis zum nächsten Mal++++ alles ok++++

Gran edición metálica procedente de Inglaterra que incluye audio en castellano. Totalmente recomendada por precio y calidad. Es 16:9 y la calidad de imagen es bastante superior a la del DVD.

サブスクでいつでも観れますが、絶対欲しかった。カルトホラー映画の傑作。

De foto van de hoes suggereert 2 discs met vele extras. Maar het is maar 1 disc met alleen audiocommentaar. Zeer misleidend van Amazon en wordt dus voor veel te hoge prijs verkocht.

I bought an Evil Dead DVD a long time ago before widescreen TVs were a thing and unfortuanately the edition I had was 4:3 fullscreen. I bought this edition so I would always have an anamorphic widescreen copy of the film. I got this copy used from a reseller and it came in great condition and it plays just fine.