What Was Your First Evil Dead Experience?

[TheAxeGrinder]

Pretty self-explanatory. For me, I heard about Evil Dead from reading Arrow's reviews, and after searching the net and finding so many fansites, I decided to check the movies out for myself. The rest, they say, is history.

[Boogeyman]

I saw it a few months ago and I was pretty dissapointed. I dont know what I was expecting but every talks like its one of the greatest horror movies ever. But, after a while, i had to be less harsh and I now see it as a normal horror movie.

later

[X-Nightcrawler]

In a friend's cinema room in his house...amazing anf unforgetable experience.

[Requiem-for-a-Dream]

My first experience was awesome. A long time friend of mine (Sarah) was living in this old house out in the country...in the woods. I had never heard of it until I saw the cover on a shelf. It belonged to her brother. We sat down and watched it and I have never forgotten the experience. Watching the limbs on the floor wobble after the body is dismembered was so sick to me at the time (I was a youngin). Scared the shit out of me and I loved every minute of it. It's now my fav. horror flick (tied with a few others).

Matt

[Dream Warrior]

Wow, great question, well it was a year and a half ago at a little horror convention in town and they showed it in a personal movie theater. Good times!

[EvilDeadGirl]

Ah the First Experience...Well I was dating this guy for a really long time and he was waaay into horror flicks. This is back a few years when I hadn't even heard of Evil Dead. Anyway we went to Blockbuster and rented it and ever since then I've been addicted.....

[TheAxeGrinder]

Originally posted by Dream Warrior
Wow, great question.

Thanks. I was wondering if anyone had ever asked this before but I figured, 'what the hell.' and posted the thread anyways.

[Psychopath2616]

I checked this movie out sometime in middle school when my friend gave it to me for my birthday and was telling me about it being made 20 minutes from where we live- Morristown TN...the cabin and outdoor scenes were done here and the Basement scenes were done in Michigan, he told me when I watched it we would go up there where they filmed it even though the cabin burnt down after filming...we never went but I still liked the movie pretty good. I'm not crazy about it but it' still cool.

[Cronos]

Id heard of 1 and 2 long ago but not Army of Darkness, then one night my dad put it on, i was 11 or 12 and loved it

[blujeep]

I saw it for the first time only a few months ago. I had heard so much about it over the years but just never got around to watching it.
When I saw the "Book of the Dead" special edition dvd & read reviews about how this was the best looking/sounding the film has ever been, I decided to buy it.
I waited to watch it until everyone in the house was asleep - I sat in the dark & popped it into the player & braced myself - Man! :eek: :eek: Was I blown away! Awesome movie - tremendously atmospheric, unbelieveable camera-work, bloody & shockig as hell! Scared the Sh** outta me!!! I loved it! :D I've watched it 3 more times since & in the meantime got both sequels. Evil Dead II rocks also!!
I consider both I & II as my two fave horror movies ever.
Ash Rules!!
:D :D

[TheAxeGrinder]

Originally posted by blujeep

Ash Rules!!
:D :D

Of course he does! 'Give me some sugar, baby!' Seriously though, is there anyone here who doesn't think Bruce Campbell is one of the kings of the genre?

[XCoRyX]

my first evil dead viewing...was the last thankfully.

[Richard Stuart]

Originally posted by Requiem-for-a-Dream
My first experience was awesome. A long time friend of mine (Sarah) was living in this old house out in the country...in the woods. I had never heard of it until I saw the cover on a shelf. It belonged to her brother. We sat down and watched it and I have never forgotten the experience. Watching the limbs on the floor wobble after the body is dismembered was so sick to me at the time (I was a youngin). Scared the shit out of me and I loved every minute of it.

An old house in the woods sounds like the perfect setting to watch it in!

Personally, I saw Evil Dead when I was much younger - bought it cheaply on video - and loved it. The girl with the white eyes who giggles inanely creeped me out totally! However, that was a slightly cut version of the film - and it's only fairly recently that I saw the full uncut DVD of it.

[Richard Stuart]

Bugger, double post and I can't delete this one.

[Hell Phantom]

Well...me and my dad just got a DVD player finalyl with surround sound....we got it all hooked up, started at like 10 o'clock at night, got doen at 12....
I read alot of good reveiws for Evil Dead so I said why not and bought it! It was the first DVD I bought...anyways, 12 o'clock, we decided to try this bad boy out and popped in Evil Dead...
WHAT A FUCKING TRIP!

Great movie! Its the only movie that has creeped me out! All the Halloween's, Friday the 13ths, Nightmares, Phantasms, combined could never scare me as much as Evil Dead did! That movie had my skin tingling and my tummy rumbling the whole time!
I still can't watch it without getting butterflies in my stomach even in pure daylight!

[Dignan]

My Dad introduced me to Army of Darkness about a decade ago, I was 5 or 6 and after seeing it I dressed up as Ash constantly and would play AoD around the house with a toy sword, a toy shotgun, and one hand wrapped in tin foil..... ahh good times.

Then a month or so after seeing AoD, dad and I watched ED 2 and it scared the poop out of ma, and yet made me laugh at the same time. I loved it, and needless top say I spent a lot of time searching for a toy chainsaw to match my Ash costume....aahhh better times.

Then a few years later my video store finally got a copy of the origional, I was alone one summer day, watched it expecting to laugh and rejoice in action and was instead scared poopless. No laughing matter this one was. But, I enjoyed it anyway... just not as much as the other 2.

Flash forward 5 years after that, I'm in a pawnshop with my friends and notice that they have an Evil Dead VHS for sale, used for 3 BUCKS!!! I bought it, watched it over and over and well... my fandom to the trillogy was solidofied.

[ofmknockoff]

Welll about a year and a half ago, I wtched it with a friend after hearing about it from my 8th grade American History teacher. She was a big horror/Sci-Fi buff and the Evil Dead Trilogy were her favorite movies. So at about 2 in the morning I asked my friend to show it to me. I remember him telling me that I wasn't going to like it because I was mostly into slashers at that time. So we put it in and to my amazingly amazing excitement, I fell asleep almost instantly. A few months later I bought the Book of the Dead edition convinved I was going to like it and I loved it. It is now one of my favorite movies.

[Fabius Bile]

I was introduced to Evil Dead (and many other movies) by fellow Schmoe and friend, Dignan. It was our 7th grade year--damn that was a while back...--and we watched it at a fellow friends b-day party. He [Dignan] had seen it before, so he was going into detail about it, ED2 & AoD. After I watched it I was hooked, and about a week later I went out and got the trilogy on vhs. (DVD's were fairly new if memory serves correctly...) Ever since Bruce Campbell has been in my top 5 favorite actors list. Thanks Dig.....

[ERIN_LoJ]

Watched it at my first boyfriends house, and then his friends came in. His one friend was hysterical, which only added to the movie.

[Draven2277]

my first "Evil Dead" experience-

i was 12 years old, and i had my Dad rent it for me because i had a girlfriend coming over. i was in 7th grade i believe, and she was the first girl i had ever asked out. she actually said yes!!! anyway..i had my dad rent it because i wanted a horror movie, and i remembered a time when my dad and i were in the video store and i was looking through the horror section and spotted "Evil Dead". On the cover was a quote by Stephen King about it being one of the most ferocious and original and scary movies ever. Since i was a huge King fan (and still am to this day) i asked him to get it.

to make a long story short, i scared the shit out of this girl i really liked...and i think i made it worse because i fell in love with the movie that very night, raving about it while she was scared out of her wits. needless to say, she stopped talking to me.

[rtatick]

I first saw Army of Darknes and HATED it... I thought it was the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen.

Then I rented "Evil Dead" just for fun and thought it was GREAT. I then saw Evil Dead 2 and LOVED it even more so than the first and figured I'd give AoD another try. As a finale to the series, it worked very well and now I own all three.

[Luke-Abbott]

Evil Dead 2 was my first Evil Dead movie I saw and because of that it has been my favourite out of the three. I caught it on Boxing Day on BBC Choice over here and didn't get the dark humour considering I have never experiences anything quite like it but I got the hang of it and saw it to be one of the greatest films ever made :D

The Evil Dead and Army of Darkness soon followed when I borrowed them from a mate.

[Jack_Cheze]

I first saw it when I was in the Army (probably 87-88), on weekends we would rent movies and drink too much beer. I saw it in the middle of the night in the dark, and I think it was snowing or raining out. It was AWESOME, much like the first time I saw TCM

[Dignan]

Originally posted by Fabius Bile
I was introduced to Evil Dead (and many other movies) by fellow Schmoe and friend, Dignan. It was our 7th grade year--damn that was a while back...--and we watched it at a fellow friends b-day party. He [Dignan] had seen it before, so he was going into detail about it, ED2 & AoD. After I watched it I was hooked, and about a week later I went out and got the trilogy on vhs. (DVD's were fairly new if memory serves correctly...) Ever since Bruce Campbell has been in my top 5 favorite actors list. Thanks Dig.....

SNIFF*- Good times, good times... How I miss seeing the olde gang... we had good times.

And your welecome Fab, say hi to the gang for me... when you can...

*SNIFF*

Memories, sweet memories....:(

[skantchweasel]

bearing in mind that the 1st Evil Dead was banned in the UK till the mid 90s, I saw Evil Dead2 before no1...

When i did see the 1st evil dead for the 1st time, I was pretty young and was just in it for the gore, not really appreciating "Intensity". (You Older gorehounds'll dig what im on about for sure!!!)

HOWEVER, some years after that viewing and in the middle of my "intoxicated" years, i obtained a pre-cert edition of Evil Dead.
A couple of friends and I, watched it whilst (severely) under the influence...
Not one of us could manage the full run time. We were up and leaving the room amid the Shelly attack scene or just freaking out and having to regroup.
That version wasnt even Uncut!

Ive since seen the Full version, which is finally available legally in the UK and it is even more insane!

"Ultimate Experience in Gruelling Horror" for sure!
Considering its year of release and budget, I would challenge anyone to find a movie to touch The Evil Dead for what it achieved in the world of (Low budget) cinema...

Sam Raimi we salute you, may Spiderman bring you the financial success you deserve...

[Xipe Totec]

Well, I bought The Book of the Dead edition a couple of months ago and that`s the first time I saw it.

[Raymond Babbit]

A friend of my dad's had lent him this movie neither of us had ever heard of called Evil Dead II. I didn't want to watch it with him at first (this was before I was into horror movies), but he had watched it with my step-mom and he said it was more funny than scary. So he finally got me to sit down and watch it with him, and I loved it. I later talked to a friend of mine who is a huge horror fan, and he told me about the other 2. I saw Army of Darkness for the first time during a bad movie night. Then I rented Evil Dead and watched it. Evil Dead II is still my favorite, and will always hold a special place in my heart, because not only did it introduce me to the Evil Dead trilogy, it got me into horror movies.

[Droog989]

Four years ago, at a friends house, his older, wiser, and horror-loving older brother told our young and unknowledgable selves that we needed to see these movies. So in the course of one evening, we blasted through all three films, slept for 2 hours, then did it all over again.

Since then there's an Evil-Dead marathon at his place every year, where the rule is you need to bring one new person who hasn't seen the films before. Spread the word, as it were.

There's nothing quite like an ED marathon with a large group of people, and one newbie :D

(edit: I just laughed my ass off at my own post, realize that an ED marathon could also be an Erectile Difficulty marathon. Man I need to grow up)

[iDLEWiLD_fan]

my first Evil Dead experience was a while back....

my best mate who i've been friends with since i was 3....had found the Evil Dead flicks in his big bro's room we were about 12 at the time...he watched them and told me about them but by the time i had the chance to watch them...his bro had to give them back to his mate so i couldn't see them

3 years later...

when i turned 15....i bought The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn both on DVD with my birthday money and i loved them...but i was disappointed to find out that Army Of Darkness had been deleted from all shops so i was fucked...but then in November i think...they re-released a special edition version of Army Of Darkness and i got it for Christmas....and ever since i first watched them i've loved them soooo much that they have become 3 out of the many films i love soooo much...

i never get sick of them!!

i just find the entire series.....pretty darn..."GROOOVY!"

....had to do it :D

[RogueSpear]

It was last Easter at my fiance's house with her and her mom right before we left for Church. Not the best prep for Church, but it worked.

[KcVorhees]

I bought it three years ago just because it was 3 dollars at bestbuy on vhs. I loved it and didnt know they made a second but as soon as did i brought both sequels in a week

[KcMsterpce]

I had an online friend through PRODIGY back in the day in 1989.
This friend said that Evil Dead 2 is one of his favorite horror flicks.

Seeing as how I liked his taste in movies, and how he was saying there was a new one baing made, I thought I'd take a dander at it.

Needless to say, I fell in love right away.

[Leatherface2067]

i was looking for good horror movies in a video store and i saw evil dead so i rented it and man was it awesome

[A.J. Hakari]

I started the trilogy back in '99, only I couldn't find the first picture, so I ended up watching it backwards. I finally saw EVIL DEAD in January '00, and I loved the hell out of it even moreso than #2 and ARMY OF DARKNESS.

[Johnny582]

i saw parts of evil dead in like 1994 thought it was just evil trash then later i watched army of darkness laughed watch evil dead 2 laughed thought it was the best movie ever and then watch evil dead again and thats when it started making sence

[Carrie White]

I was pretty young when I first saw Evil Dead.I remember thinking the cover where the girl had her arm up and was being pulled down looked cool so I rented it.I loved the film and it is probably the movie that got me so deeply into horror.

[Terror Australis]

The first time I saw the first "Evil Dead" film was on Christmas Day 2001. I got the Evil Dead video game but also it came with the first film free.

[killuminati003]

well me and 3 of my friends all got together and at about 4 o'clock in the morning we popped in this horror.....see we had read about it on a horror website but didnt realy know what to expect....well by the time the first person was possesed or whatever we were all in stunned and amazed........and very freaked out. see we are no older than 8 or 9 at the time and this was the first movie any of us had seen that actualy freaked us out.....and to this day that movie has been my very favorite scary movie of all time........except maybe halloween....

[killuminati003]

Originally posted by Psychopath2616
I checked this movie out sometime in middle school when my friend gave it to me for my birthday and was telling me about it being made 20 minutes from where we live- Morristown TN...the cabin and outdoor scenes were done here and the Basement scenes were done in Michigan, he told me when I watched it we would go up there where they filmed it even though the cabin burnt down after filming...we never went but I still liked the movie pretty good. I'm not crazy about it but it' still cool.

ya morristown iz close to where i live to...i live in east tn 2 but i didnt know it was shot there untill after i seen the movie...

[Klownzilla]

I saw the Evil Dead series backwards. A few years back, I was on vacation in Stilwell, Oklahoma (a creepy place at night) and he showed me Army of Darkness, which I enjoyed a lot. A few months later, Evil Dead II was playing as part of a midnight showing of cult classics at Chicago's Landmark Theatre. I saw it for the first time on the big screen. Then I rented The Evil Dead.

[HomicidalHolmes]

Well, it all started with Army of Darkness. I saw that sucker, and watched the hell out of it. Then I decided to go back to square one. I rented the Evil Dead, but the tape was busted. So I rented Evil Dead 2....excellent film by the way. Then, finally, about 6 months later, my dear friend EvilSpike and I were hangin out at his place, and we watched it. Great movie, my damn favoritist.

[Queen_Akasha]

Well, I saw Evil Dead 2 for sale at my videostore so I bought it cause I rented it the day before and loved it. Then I bought The 1st one also.

[Evil Spike]

It all started when my buddy Ian brought over Evil Dead 2 to my house.

He was like....
:::in a high pitched sqeaky voice::: "Hey man, watch this movie, its da bomb, yo."

I was like...
:::in a low pitched manly voice::: "Okay, It sounds cool."

Its okay though, I got that bastard into the Crow... :)

[HomicidalHolmes]

Yeah steve, you bastard, makin me buy all this crow shit to satisfy my gothic urges! Damn you!

[Evil Spike]

Originally posted by HomicidalHolmes
Yeah steve, you bastard, makin me buy all this crow shit to satisfy my gothic urges! Damn you!

:D