The Evil Dead: Raimi's Camera as a Predator

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Most horror films point the camera at the monster. Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead, made in 1981 for roughly $375,000 scraped together from Michigan dentists and small investors, did something stranger and cheaper: it made the camera the monster. There is a force loose in those Tennessee woods, and for long stretches of the film you never see it because you are riding on its shoulders, crashing through the undergrowth toward five students who have no idea what is coming. That single decision — turn the point of view into a predator — is why a no-budget picture shot by a 21-year-old still feels feral more than forty years on.

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The Evil Dead: Raimi's Camera as a Predator