What first got you into The Evil Dead?

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Swofty

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What first got you into The Evil Dead?..

Someone starts this thread every few years and we're consistantly suprised at the stories we get when it's done .. so what's your story?  :) 
 
Well, i've first seen this movie when i was a little kid, not suitable for that age at all  ;D maybe thats why im a little different today, haha. So i literally grew up with that movie (or movies that is) and for me its just the best movie ever, nothing will top it, til this day it has something special about it that kind of captures me, no matter how many times ive seen it. Its the combination of the gore, the music, the atmosphere, the Bruce  ;D

I also kinda prefer to watch that very old VHS tape that we have, it makes the movie look better instead of the sharp Blu Ray picture. The unsharp-ness helps the make up and stuff.  :)

I could probably write much more but thats it for now.

Groovy  8)
 
I went into a music store when I was about 15 to get a new patch for my coat and I saw a patch that said The Evil Dead so i'm like nice that sounds pretty cool. Then I found out it was a actual movie so I saw it and never stopped watching it. Been a loyal Deadite for over 15 years!!! \m/
 
Last summer, I found an Army of Darkness VHS along with a bunch of other movies at my dad's cabin. I was going to watch it over the summer, but I forgot. Eventually I realized that it was a sequel to two other movies. So I found the first movie, watched it, and became a fan.
 
I was about 11 when The Evil Dead was released ...

The day before my first fatefull viewing, I'd come home from school to a note from my Mum saying the police were advising locals to lock the door because they were looking for a man that might be dangerous ...

I'll get back to that at the end of this story ...

The next night I was invited to my friend Jez Collins for a sleepover during one of his parent's many partys. His parents were a lot less strict than mine and his Dad owned a video shop (back when you still had to pay a monthly membership fee to rent videos). I lied to his hippy Mum that my parents wouldn't mind me watching The Evil Dead and all us kids all climbed onto a single bed in a tiny spare bedroom to first watch the hugely forgetable 'Ice Pirates' ... then a girl my age cuddled up and .. my first childhood kiss. As I was still reeling from that, Jez put The Evil Dead on and my brain was fried a second time! 

That night, after the oldies all left (or as I learned a few years later, more likely they were 'swinging' upstairs) us young'uns all crashed on his living room floor telling ghost stories. The next morning his Mum and Dad woke only me up and said I had to get ready to go home quickly. I thought I was in trouble because I'd been rumbled for watching The Evil Dead.

Quiet and awkward silence in the car on the way home ... My Mum looks at my Dad then she reminded me about the note left for me about the police search. Turned out, one of my other friend's Dad had killed himself and not in a very nice way and that 'Tim' was 'coming to live with us for a week and you're off school'

So, my first kiss, my first video nasty and my first experience of suicide all in 48 hrs ... at the age of 11!. I think I would have liked the film anyway. Totaly true story but a bit intense so I try to avoid telling it too often  ;) :o

edit: ... anyway ... *cough* ... anyhoo, how else did the rest of you lot find our beloved trilogy?
 
I got the original movie on VHS as a christmas present from my parents when I was a teenager. A very cencored version, though... bought in Sweden, where we lived at the time.

I watched it in my bedroom the same night I got it, after everyone had gone to bed, and it's an experience I've never forgotten. I was always a horror fan, but this movie was just the coolest thing I had ever seen... AND it actually scared me! Not a whole lot of movies have ever done that... and somehow I just knew this was my new favourite movie right from the first shot.

The whole atmosphere of it was just so... I don't know, creepy, but awesome :) And the movie seemed as if it had been made especially for me, using several elements of my darkest nightmares.

I'm going to tell you something that might make you laugh... and thats ok! :D You know those lists you can find around the Net of funny phobias? Well, some people have to have them... and I have dendrophobia. Yes, you read that right... I'm afraid of trees. Have been since I was a baby, apparently. Now, imagine having dendrophobia and watching Evil Dead...
 
1995 when I was 11, bought Evil Dead 2 and Alien on VHS from the local second hand shop (the owner was a bit ropey so no chance of getting asked for ID for buying an 18 haha!), never looked back!
 
...also call of the search I ain't dead everyone haha! Been busy with my skills test's for Nissan so been focused on that and also started sketching, here is Ash I did on Friday  ;D

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I was huge into horror movies especially zombie movies in high school. I was introduced to Evil Dead by a friend of mine. The rest is history.
 
It was in 1995. The first movie I had the pleasure of watching was Evil Dead II when a friend and I went to the video store. The place would let us rent anything so "A Clockwork Orange" on the menu and "Evil Dead II" was the video de jour. It stuck with me for a while then I started watching two little tv shows called Xena and Hercules. Needless to say I saw Bruce Campbell, and thought that guy looks familiar. A fan of all three was born... and the rest as they say is history. Good times.
 
A Clockwork Orange  8) 8) ... the only film I've ever seen banned by the director who made it.

edit: sweet sketch NAH!
 
Thank you Swofty!  ;D

I wonder how many fans viewed Evil Dead 2 before they seen The Evil Dead?
 
Names_Ash_Housewares link said:
Thank you Swofty!  ;D

I wonder how many fans viewed Evil Dead 2 before they seen The Evil Dead?
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*raises hand*
 
1983, at a friend's house. I was hooked right away. In fact it's the first ever Horror movie I saw in my life and it left a mark so deep in my mind that I've become a Horror fan right away. And this is my all time favorite with Horror Hotel. Can't wait for the 5th april.
 
When I was 12 years old I used to play on my scooter a lot which then lead to me doing tricks which then lead to me breaking my foot though not entirely as my Mum and Dad thought that I just wanted to get out of doing P.E. Any how they started to take me the hospital and they didn't know what to do with me Then I reached the age of 13 and then after I snap my figure playing snap (Funny enough), they realised my leg was broken and that for two months I'd been walking on a broken leg. Then I spent a week in a room at school when my twin sister was on a school trip to Wales so I was feeling pretty down. Then came the day to get my cast off and after that my mum decide to take me HMV which was the first time I had been HMV and then I saw a film called Evil Dead II which my friends said was brilliant and I wasn't bothered by the fact that it was the sequel because sometimes its fun to watch the second as the first movie and the first movie as the prequel I had done it before with Star Wars IV A New Hope and Star Wars V The Empire Strikes Back and also Superman and Superman II so I watched it and loved every single minute of it. I wanted to watch it so bad that when my Mum asked if I wanted to go back to school I said no and watched it.
So that was my experience of it first time I got someone to buy me a horror movie and the first time that I skipped school for one film also I had ordered Army Of Darkness to come to my house the day that the reboot came out.
And that was my experience little bland but fun to look back at!
 
I'm one of those people who tumbled backwards into the fandom; I was a fan of Bruce through Burn Notice, saw AOD OnDemand one afternoon, became obsessed and watched backward through the trilogy.
 
I pretty much got into this movie when my Dad decided to place it on Netflix because I said I'd never saw it before. Once it came in and we started watching it, I became hooked almost instantly.
 
I was never allowed to watch Horror movies when I was a kid due to always having nightmares.  But I always would stay up late to watch Twilight Zone reruns, and get freaked the fuck out.

Eventually my parents gave up on fighting my interests, I rented Evil Dead on VHS randomly.

Next thing I knew I finished the series and started collecting memorabilia. Meeting Bruce a few years later.  Epic
 
I was probably 10 or 11 when ED2 came out in theaters, and a big horror movie fan, so I became immediately curious (loved the poster) but I was obviously too young to see it, so my mother and I rented ED from the local video store, and watched it together. Yes, my sweet mom was, and still is, a big horror movie fan, though you would never think it if you met her. In fact, in real life she can barely stand the sight of blood, even a drop.

I didn’t find ED too scary, but it was visually thrilling. I was really interested in practical make-up effects from a young age and used to play around with them at home, so I appreciated the slightly amateur look of Tom’s work. Not because it looked bad, but because it wasn’t so seamless and I could study each shot and come up with my own conclusions on how each effect was achieved. I saw the movie a few times, but I wouldn’t say I was obsessed. My favourite at the time, and for many years to come, was Nightmare on Elm Street.

Bruce didn’t make an impact on me until ED2 hit home video. The visuals were crazier than ever, and everything was almost too cartoonish so there was little to no fright factor this time around, but I loved the hero. The horror movie heroine was well established by the late 80s, but the male “hero” in those films was always the antagonist. Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, etc. I loved horror films, but could rarely identify with any of these characters who didn’t end up becoming victims. It also helped that he didn’t look so dissimilar to me. Ash was a different kind of hero, he was a badass, but he was seriously flawed and not at all altruistic, and he didn’t save the girl in the end. They turned the archetype on its head with him, and I appreciated that even if I was unable to articulate it at the time.

By the time AoD came around I was one of the only people I knew who had any idea what it was, and I’ll be honest, even I wasn’t sure what I was looking at first time I saw the poster in a comic shop. “Is that Ash from Evil Dead? What is this movie and why is it called that?” Luckily the guy at the store explained the issue with the title, and confirmed that it was in fact Evil Dead 3. I had a hard time finding a screening when it did come out, and ended up missing the theatrical run entirely. Then I forgot about it until it popped up on the movie channel about a year later, and instantly became obsessed. The film was exciting, dark, funny, and Bruce’s smarmy, sarcastic delivery was right up my alley. I was so into it that I remember building my own mechanical gauntlet out of an old gardening glove, tin foil, and some duct tape. I knew all the one liners, and could even recite the boomstick monologue. Problem was, I had no one else to share it with, as I was the only person I knew who was interested in the movie.

Eventually I discovered girls and forgot about Evil Dead for a few years, until the late 90s when a friend came over with a copy of the director’s cut, or was it just the deleted scenes, I can’t recall. In any event, we had ourselves a marathon soon afterward, and my love of the series was reignited, big-time. I soon discovered there were fans in my network of friends, and found websites like Deadites which connected me with other fans around the world.

The rest, as they say, is history :wink
 
Hi all,

I've just joined, so hello, but I don't bite.

I was 12 when I first saw Army of Darkness when my brother borrowed a VHS copy from a friend. He then borrowed ED2 which had been taped from a Bravo Channel showing.

I purchased ED myself at a car boot for £2! All within a year!

I'm now 28, and thanks to the ED trilogy I have been a horror fan ever since.
 
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