I guess I'm just not into blood-and-guts movies, and it's not because I'm jaded. I haven't seen enough to have become unaffected; they just don't affect me at all to begin with. I have a sort of fascination that compels me to watch for about 20 minutes (that's how long I stuck with Saw when it was on a movie channel) and then I drop out. I think that I'm more attracted to the psychological thriller, having been weaned on Hitchcock. I stayed with "The Evil Dead" to the end, mainly because of all the hype I'd read about it here on IMDb. Overhype, I should say. Most of it seemed just really silly and never came close to getting me frightened...never got the pulse going more than a calm 80, not even close to what the original "Night of the Living Dead" did for me. Sorry, but give me "Dark Water", where I can actually feel for the characters and use my brain, over stuff like this.
Review of The Evil Dead
