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Good score, I have to admit. On nearly all other counts this movie was a dismal wreck. Okay, let’s back up. I first saw this movie back in college in the mid-80s. I remember really liking it because I’d never seen an outright sick gore-fest before. Maybe a few of those really bad quality old school zombie flicks, but nothing this well done. Well done? Well, time has not treated Evil Dead kindly, to say the least. The effects are excusable of course because they didn’t have a budget and SP/FX back then I suppose weren’t as easy to come by pre-WWW? I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt. But the heart of a film is the script, the style, the acting, the story, and the directing. This film fails miserably on all accounts. The acting is terrible, but that’s excusable given the cast is a bunch of punks. The directing for the majority of the film is listless and predictable (more on that later). The script is just plain dumb.

You could say I missed the point. Was I supposed to be laughing with hilarity at these onscreen antics? I just found them boring, tired, formulaic, and plainly unintelligent. Was I supposed to be scared? Sure, there are parts that make you jump, but they are always predictable, and always reinforced the stupidity of the characters. Nothing interesting ever develops into a story line regarding why or how to stop what is happening. I’ve seen better plot development in pornos. No, this movie was a chore to watch, and I have never been so annoyed, or aware, of the time I was wasting sitting in front of my TV.

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