Evil Dead

Spoilers I guess? This is a remake of a movie made in the 80's, so unless you haven't seen or heard of it, you should be good...

This was it. My first "R" rated movie. The first one I'd ever been to in a theater. I didn't have to sneak in either because I'm legally allowed. That's not what this blog is about, though. This is about a movie that was extremely gory and had a plot that was mediocre at best. For a horror movie, it had a decent amount of psychological chills and physical jump-scares to keep me occupied. A movie about kids staying in the woods and some evil being finds them, though? Done before. A girl is possessed and tries to kill everyone around her? Seen it. Girl is filled with angst and drug-related problems but instead of helping, her friends leave her isolated somewhere to murder them all? Yawwwwn.

The gore and intensity of the scares in this movie were pretty extreme. Everybody is hacking off limbs, cutting things open, and spreading nasty bodily fluids. At one point, the sky literally rains blood. I mean, how metal is that? As for how scary the movie was, I was on the edge of my seat with my head buried in my hands for pretty much the whole movie. The dead girl would pop out from behind a corner every five seconds, or she'd be crawling on the ground like a freaky, demented crab, or she would be yelling extremely colorful obscenities at someone.

One distinct scene I found frightening was right after the demon-thing is release and the sister is trying to escape. She sees the evil entity in the middle of the road and swerves into a pond to avoid it. Now, instead of going the way she came, she swims through the pond onto a muddy bank surrounded by forest. The evil being rises from the water, covered in mud, and the girl runs off into the forest. She is trapped by a tree possessed by the demon and it um... violates her. The demon is now inside of her and got there in a very personal way. This was scene was chilling because it incorporated a psychological fear of being helpless and not being able to do anything about a violent act towards yourself and the physical fear of just being really darn scary.

As for the movie's plot, it wasn't very original. Granted, this movie first came out in the 80's, and we've had so many new horror movies since then. They probably shouldn't have remade this one, though. The acting was okay, everything seemed decently terrified, but the storyline was just... bleh. It was really easy to follow and really simple to understand, though.

I would give this movie about a five out of ten, as it was gory, but had an awful plot. If you're into horror for the spookiness, go for it, but if you're like me, and actually like stories, don't waste $8.50 on it and rent it when it comes out on DVD.