![]() ![]() We hear about them all the time in movies about ancient Egypt and ancient times. We are scared and disgusted at what happens when one of the women goes outside alone at night and meets a tree that does unspeakable things. Raimi cares about his movie and he does everything to make you feel the terror that the cabin people feel. You can put this film up against any of today's so called horror films and I guarantee you this scares you more. Sam Raimi made a masterpiece here that I believe stands the test of time. It lets you know that there is evil in that cabin. Here we see a long shot of the cabin and it has very eerie music playing. There is one scene in this film that I will never forget and that is one of the early scenes where the cast arrives at the cabin. And Evil Dead is one of the best at doing that. And that was, how to create atmosphere using the camera. Their budgets didn't allow a heap of special effects so they had to rely on what they knew. So what that meant is that the directors could stick to their visions but they had to find innovative ways to do so. Halloween was made for $150,000 and Evil Dead for $50 000. They had no pressure to make a great film and they did it on an incredibly low budget. ![]() When films like the two mentioned were filmed they were filmed by two directors that were complete unknowns. Directors don't care about a lot of the material that they are filming today, especially when it comes to horror films and that is because they don't write their own stories. And that is because a photo copy is never as good as the original. And I think I know why films now a days can't hold a candle to films like Halloween and Evil Dead. It's the early 80's, what do you expect? This is a scary scary film. The fully uncut version was finally released on DVD in 2001. Most of the scenes depicting excessive gore were shortened or removed, with the tree rape scene being particularly targeted for cuts. In the end, a further 1m 6s was removed, in addition to the previous theatrical version cuts. It was not until 1990 that the film surfaced on video in the UK again, due to wrangles between the distributors and the BBFC over how much footage should be cut from a legal video release. Despite the cuts, it became one of the most notorious of the UK video nasties and was subject to many obscenity trials before being withdrawn on video in 1984, when mandatory video censorship was introduced to the UK. When originally released to theaters in Britain, the UK censors removed 49 seconds of footage including an ankle stabbing, Shelley chewing off her own hand, an eye gouging, Shelley's body being dismembered, body blows with a poker and a wooden post, and shots of blood spurts, and it was this version that was released on video originally. ![]()
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