The Evil Dead (1981)

The Evil Dead is the first of the famous Evil Dead series, ending with the fabulous Army Of Darkness, one of my favourite movies of all time. It's considered by many as a horror cult classic, probably 'cuz of all the gore and disgusting-ness.

To be honest, I only saw three quarters of the movie, having missed the second half of Disc 1 (because it stopped loading mid-way), and, not wanting to refresh the screen and reload the whole damn thing again, I moved on to Disc 2. But anyway, here goes:

*spoilers*

It starts with five college kids going into this cabin in the woods and finding the Book of the Dead. After playing a tape containing a narration regarding aforementioned book, plus a few read-out incantations from said book (on the tape), shit finally happens.

Our hero and sole survivor is Ash, played by Bruce Campbell, who, in this movie, isn't as cool and awesome as he is in Army Of Darkness. His friend, sister, girlfriend, and other female friend get taken out in the end, having been turned into the undead, along with spewing white stuff and that eventual pea soup-porridge combo oozing out from his male friend after Ash burns the Book, thereby killing all the undead. I think there was about 10-15 minutes devoted to all the zombies becoming, well, deader, and like, they started disintegrating(?), but not any less icky (surprisingly), which ended with Ash getting about 10 gallons of blood onto his face (because his friends were kinda exploding. 'Kinda', 'cuz there wasn't a boom.).

Evil Dead ends with the camera zooming through the woods, through the house up till the front, and then attacking a turning-and-screaming Ash as he was walking to his car. Great ending, including the, um, rather inappropriate music accompanying the end credits. Inappropriate, because it was cute. Quite vintage-y, in fact.

Gore-wise, there was a lot. There's this bit when Ash was burying his girlfriend (that he didn't chop up 'cuz he didn't have the heart to), and she climbs out of the as-of-yet unburied grave and claws (hard!) at his leg like it was a scratching post. I was half-expecting to see deep furrows in his calves, but if there were, he'd die and just turn into one of THEM. So, no.

Not watching the second half of Disc 1 meant that I missed out on the infamous 'tree-rape' scene, where one of the girls was suggestively heavily-violated by branches and such. Yes. 'Tree-rape' does not mean 'man molesting poor tree', but instead, 'tree molesting poor girl'.

When I'm feeling a little less lazy, I'll load the show again.