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The Evil Dead: the original one this time. I'd meant to watch them all before seeing the remake but trout happens. It was all right, but not really amazing. It was almost good in spite of itself since the acting, was bad, the effects were bad, the writing was bad. But it was still better than 99% of horror movies at the time. Ash is pretty unremarkable in this movie leading me to believe that he's only in the other movies because Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi are friends.
One of my roommates was actually reading a book about the making of the original Evil Dead, and I think I can understand why Bruce Campbell was kept around. Everyone had to work on Evil Dead on a really low budget and in pretty bad conditions. As they filmed at this cabin, everyone had to stay there, but they did not really have anything set up for all of the cast and crew to sleep and such. Before the film was finished, everyone quit except for one camera man (I think), Bruce Campbell, and Sam Raimi. So they had to rework the film with the fact that they now only had one actor to work with and no one else. I think it would be interesting to see how the film would have turned out had everyone stuck around. It would still not be fantastic I'm sure as Sam Raimi was still pretty young and inexperienced, but I heard he still had some genuinely brilliant scenes in the movie all things considered.