Evil Dead notes
Mar. 15th, 2005 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutI saw Evil Dead over the weekend for the first time, via the magic of G.'s Netflix.
I like good slice of cheese once in a while, and I like horror films, and so you may be surprised that I'd missed this one up until now. But I also tend toward the vintage, you see. I am not at all implying that Evil Dead has now aged like a fine wine and thus only now is deserving of my connoiseurship. I'm saying that I'm an old fuddy when it comes to horror movies, that's all. Also, the DVD era is sill young and I have a lot of catching up to do still.
I thought that some of the stuff near the end was over-the-top gross rather than scary, but other than that, I enjoyed it. Partly because everybody dies. No exceptions. Ha!
It was fun to see the birthplace of things that have now come horror cliches -- the tilted camera angle, the "surprise ending." The false music cue (overused enough in *this* film that we caught onto it pretty quick -- when the music's building, nothing's going to happen; when everything goes quiet, something bad is about to occur.)
I am almost as amused at some of the critical and fan comments I've read since. "Watch during the daylight!" (Oops.) "If you're squeamish, run for your girly life!" (Ha ha. Asshole.)
I don't quite get why this is considered a zombie movie, though.
I like good slice of cheese once in a while, and I like horror films, and so you may be surprised that I'd missed this one up until now. But I also tend toward the vintage, you see. I am not at all implying that Evil Dead has now aged like a fine wine and thus only now is deserving of my connoiseurship. I'm saying that I'm an old fuddy when it comes to horror movies, that's all. Also, the DVD era is sill young and I have a lot of catching up to do still.
I thought that some of the stuff near the end was over-the-top gross rather than scary, but other than that, I enjoyed it. Partly because everybody dies. No exceptions. Ha!
It was fun to see the birthplace of things that have now come horror cliches -- the tilted camera angle, the "surprise ending." The false music cue (overused enough in *this* film that we caught onto it pretty quick -- when the music's building, nothing's going to happen; when everything goes quiet, something bad is about to occur.)
I am almost as amused at some of the critical and fan comments I've read since. "Watch during the daylight!" (Oops.) "If you're squeamish, run for your girly life!" (Ha ha. Asshole.)
I don't quite get why this is considered a zombie movie, though.
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Date: 2005-03-15 09:25 pm (UTC)I think it's a non-traditional zombie movie, but it still counts. It does feature animated corpses that convert the living through infection.
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Date: 2005-03-15 09:35 pm (UTC)The mechanism of demon possession/zombification was really unclear to me in ths one. There's definitely one case of conversion through infection, maybe two, but what about the first and second victims? That was actually part of what made it scary -- the unpredictability of the transformations.
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Date: 2005-03-15 11:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-15 09:41 pm (UTC)Me either. I'm a fan of the movie (though I'm a bit more partial to Evil Dead II), but it's never seemed like a zombie movie to me.
Mmmm cheese.
Date: 2005-03-15 10:25 pm (UTC)But first...
CATWOMAN!!!
Re: Mmmm cheese.
Date: 2005-03-16 12:03 am (UTC)