I got this at a blockbuster one day and never put it down. I love it. Plain and simple. It's amazing some hollywood idiot didn't try to remake.Cassandra (1 out of 10 )
I thought this movie sucked. The acting was so fake and the movie was completely boring. There's more cheer in a graveyard than there was in this movie.Feral (10 out of 10 )
Cassandra.
then perhaps you were in the wrong genre at the rental place. This movie was the scariest thing of it's time. Of course you probably thought Berry deserved the oscar too.Justin (10 out of 10 )
It's too bad you think this was a horrible movie Cassandra. I personally LOVE it! It's so creative, and very well done I think for having only a $3,000 budget in 1979. This movie is disgustingly delightful. I hear there is supposed to be a remake in 2007. The cast will be completely different and the story will be changed some. Hopefully it will not be ruined like other remakes. (Texas Chainsaw Massacre).tony (10 out of 10 )
Well I do agree that this is a great film, very intense and gruesome. I have to disagree with some things justin said. First, the budget for Evil Dead wasn't $3,000, it was really $375,000 ($3,000 wouldn't have even paid for the cost to rent the cabin!). And Second, in my opinion, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a great remake, perhaps even better than the original. One more thing, Evil Dead was an excellent horror movie, until Sam Raimi ruined it with Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness.Epic Zach (10 out of 10 )
Evil Dead is epic. And I know for the epically challenged it's hard to grasp the fact that this was an extremely low budget movie that turned out to be great. Bravo Sam, bravo.Basil098 (10 out of 10 )
Once again, you've got the budget way wrong. $50,000 (Which is about half of what Romero got for NOTLD 20 years earlier). Which is amazing to me. They didn't rent out the cabin. It was in the woods in Minnesota, I believe? You might be thinking of Evil Dead 2 which was shot on a budget of 3 mil. On another note, you must be the only person alive who thinks that the remake of Texas Chainsaw is better than the original and that Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness ruined the trilogy, Raimi totally evolved as a director/writer in both of those films. Anyhow, this is a great movie for anyone who enjoys a good low budget horror movie (which are so hard to find).JBOO7OHMSS (10 out of 10 )
I think the cabin was in Michigan, where Sam, Bruce and the gang are from. I am with you on the new Texas Chainsaw being better. It was a lot scarier than the old one. I was surprised because most new horror movies suck, especially remakes. I don't feel that ED 2 and AOD ruined the series though. They were also classics, even though maybe not as good as the original. AOD is a great cult film and a very fun movie.tony (10 out of 10 )
Basil, I have the DVD of this movie and on the commentary, Sam Raimi says it himself, the budget was $375, 000 which they got through private investors all arounf the Detroit area. They did rent the cabin themselves. I'd like to add that if Evil Dead 2 weren't a sequel to Evil Dead, it would be pretty good. But since it claims to be a continuation of Ash's story, but the set up for ED1 and ED2 are almost exactly the same. Ruins it for me.Trevor (9 out of 10 )
Evil Dead is what is is, a great low budget horror movie. As for the budget the 3000$ marker may have come from the test that they did for this film, called In the Woods, which they did to try and figure out the type of film they were going to use. The initial budget was around 100000 that they raised themselves( no small feat let me assure you). Army of Darkness and Evil Dead 2 are great movies in the fact that you got to see Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert trying out a lot of ideas that you would see in later movies( ie the infamous Raimi zoom). You also have to remeber that between ED2 and AOD Raimi did Darkman, whewre he truly came into his own, Bruce Cambell became a more seasoned actor and when they came back together they did to make AOD exactly the way they did, altough the original ending wasn't used it was awesome. Love them or hate them you have to respect what they did with these movies.
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