Im not sure I can really count a film that I laughed at as a horror film in my collection. Not many films scare me but some give me the creeps and some well I like them as films but not as horror I think The Evil Dead is one of those films. I have yet to watch the rest of the trilogy but I will as I enjoyed this film.

I love the Evil Dead Movies
i think all great
i like Evil Dead 2 more then other 2

Raimi is by not the first to shoot a scene with the camera tilted diagonally (which is called a Dutch Angle by the way). This technic was started in the 1930's in Germany. Orson Welles later made it popular in America with The Third Man (1949).

Though a lot of Raimi's technique were not often used in horror movies during that time period and it banned in a few countries for a while because of it's excessive gore.

Personally, I like Evil Dead 2 the best. The story is just great and I love the evil hand. Evil Dead always seemed to feel a little student filmish to me and Army of Darkness can be a little too campy.

The Third Man...now there's a film I'd recommend everyone seeing by the time they die. Brilliant filmmaking, Welles is fantastic.


You have all heard about the fake blood story right? Raimi's original film had all red blood, very realistic looking. In order to escape a very harsh censor and possible ban, Raimi had to make some of the blood different colors, hence the blue, green, purple, etc. gore.


And I hate to burst your bubbles, but, at least if you live in America, there will never be a Army of Darkness Necronomicon DVD released. Anchor bay owns the rights to The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, whereas Universal owns Army of Darkness now. In case you haven't noticed, Universal sucks. They don't like fun DVD releases.

I don't think he meant JUST the tilt but the angle combined with movement that really drew you into the scene. Raimi had some very original camera work although you're right, a lot of it was simply new combinations of older styles.

similar thing happened with Taxi Driver. Scorsese had to get rid of some of the color contrast to get past the censors, so now the blood looks very dark, almost black. they lost the original negative, so its gonna stay like that forever.

That's a damn shame.

...now that I think about it, the blood in Taxi Driver is unusually dark.

yeah, it is kinda sad. its the opposite of what Scorsese was trying for as well.

Travis Bickle was living out his fantasy in that scene, and he wanted the colors to be vibrant.

Amen. The movie still kicks ass, however, dark blood or not!
I wish Scorsese'd do a commentary track on it.

agreed. I got me a big ass 5 foot taxi driver poster in my room.:)

true about the commentary. I learned alot from the mini documentary, however i'd like to know more.