The Evil Dead Review

Review of The Evil Dead (1981) by screenqueeen: 👍 4.5/5

The story might be familiar to most of you, otherwise, it’s simple to re-cap since Evil Dead has been referenced so many times and parodied. We follow a group of kids on a road trip to a lightly mentioned cabin in the woods belonging to someone renting it out for an unmentionable low price. They stay in the cabin long enough to discover an evil presence and accidentally awaken it. They must fight the evil to survive the coming sunrise, but this evil is almost impossible to see until it takes a body captive.

We see the kids driving to the cabin, intercut with “something” flying through the woods, shot in POV. After some difficulty on the road (and a terribly faulty bridge), they arrive at the cabin. Everything looks decrepit and dank, the house looks less than hospitable, and to top it off, the porch swing, swinging squeakily as if a morbid welcome, halts in an instant once the ring of keys to the house is found. Thus begins the wooded terror of Evil Dead.

Read the rest of the review on medium. Original post on Scarecrow Video's blog can be found here.