The Evil Dead is a creepy zombie movie that has a pretty strong cult following. Most of the reviews I read call it a classic and by all rights, it probably deserves that title.
Five college students end up at a decrepit cottage in the middle of nowhere and find themselves surrounded by trees that apparently really want them all dead. They find a book made from human skin and written with human blood and the journal tapes of its author who took his wife to the cabin to study...something.
One of the three women gets drawn out into the woods where she is stripped and raped by trees. No, I'm not kidding. This leads to her becoming possessed and attacking the other four college students. One by one they are attacked and transformed into possessed demons, though one of them ends up looking like a little girl who got into mommy's makeup.
It was pretty interesting that the three women were the first to transform and start harrassing the others. The two men are left trying to figure out what is going on and what to do about it. Some might make the claim that this movie is all about women being the weaker sex and therefore easier to possess, but I'm not going to try and read too much into this.
There were some creepy and extremely gory moments in the movie and, while I will probably check out its sequels and the movie I am Bruce, I probably won't be rushing to watch this original any time soon.
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