#705. The Evil Dead
- Year: 1982
- Country: USA
- Production: Renaissance, New Line, 85m
- Director: Sam Raimi
- Producer: Robert Tapert
- Screenplay: Sam Raimi
- Photography: Tim Philo
- Music: Joseph LoDuca
- Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, Betsy Baker, Sarah York
- Blog Club Rating: 8.6/10
Abridged Book Description[]
This "ultimate experience in grueling [sic] horror," as it immodestly bills itself in the end credits, changed the history of the genre. Sam Raimi took the gore of Italian horror movies and mixed it with a proudly juvenile sense of humor - making its teenage heroes so vapidly wholesome that we cannot wait, once they are holed up in a remote country shack, for them to die or be zombified. Such self-consciousness would subsequently come to dominate screen horror.