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Posted By: Grendel101 on
1/7/05
Essay Subject: The Evil Dead
Why Evil Dead is the Greatest Horror Film Ever Made...
I should first start off by saying that I just Lied. Evil Dead is not the
greatest horror film ever made, its one of them, but there are FAR too many to
distinguish this honor. Night of the Living Dead might actually be the best
horror film ever made, but in degrees. I chose Evil Dead for personal reasons.
It was the first film of the genre that hit me hard. I watched it at my brothers
request at the very impressionable age of 10, at home, all alone. It was the middle
of the day, and I was PETRIFIED! Everything from the camera work to laughing
zombie had me in complete horror! The fact that you never even see what's
possessing these people made it worse. In my mind, it was more horrifying than
anything that you could have put on the screen. When you see the first person
point of view of that thing going through the woods.... I was awestruck. I had
never seen anything like it before... although I was 10, that was a lifetime to
me. I was as excited as I was scared. I realized at that time that there was a
distinct difference in the film. From that moment on, I wanted nothing more than
to find that rush again, the exhilaration of riding a roller coaster without
ever leaving my chair. This is why Evil Dead is the greatest horror film ever
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