Evil Dead is a movie that is a cult classic for a reason. By combining a tale of the Necronomicon and monsters from beyond it’s a scary reminder of what people do with forces they can’t understand. While this is often the tale that people gloss over in favour of the second movie Evil Dead II it shows how you can blend cosmic horror and helplessness into a great film. With lots of rewatch potential.
Note: This is the first post of two where I describe the first two Evil Dead movies. One that leans close to Lovecraftian themes and the other that is quite campy and pulpy with people placed in impossible situations.
The movie begins with a group of friends renting out an isolated cabin. Things seem normal until they accidently discover the basement. Where a woman is tied up asking the friends to free her. And it’s there that they discover mysterious tapes from a crazy professor which hint at terrible forces. Thinking that these are just some strange explanations from a professor they relax and unwind. That is until strange things start to happen.
As one of the group walks into the cold and gloomy night checking a strange noise the forest comes alive. Bloodied and traumatised she heads back into a cabin. She slowly turns into a monster and starts lashing out. That where the friends get pulled into a battle of their lives. Encountering monsters that twist humans into taunting, unrecognisable shells of their former selves their sanity begins to drain. Where they are forced to do unspeakable things to stay alive against the deadites Ash emerges from the scene completely changed. While getting covered in ridiculous amounts of blood and gore.
He leaves the cabin here bruised, battered and hanging on with a fragment of sanity he started with.
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