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I watched Evil Dead last night for the first time. It was pretty great, but not really quite as good as everyone has told me. The gore was satisfying, the atmosphere was well done and absorbing, but I didn't find the "villains" of the movie particularly interesting. I also don't think it was very scary, at all.
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Who was the arsehead who told you the Evil Dead movies are scary? They're not. They're fucking riotous and awesome. I will say that the decomposition scene at the end of the first one is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. I would probably post it in the Favorite Movie Scenes thread if I weren't too lazy to find it on Youtube.
I will say there are a few concepts present in those films that I thought were kind of creepy. Such as the unseen force that chases Ash through the woods. They kind of ruined it in Evil Dead 2 though by
showing what it looks like at the end. It makes a comeback in Army of Darkness though, and the sequence is epic.
What I fucking love about Sam Raimi as a director is his use of camera angles and lenses. Typically people don't even notice the utterly
insane shit he does with his cameras unless you're a film geek like me. Let's just say that in order to get some of the shots in the first Evil Dead, he was hanging upside down from the ceiling by his knees. I highly recommend you listen to Bruce Campbell's commentary. He dishes out some awesome trivia, and he's also just funny as hell.