The Evil Dead

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Year:	1981
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Sam Raimi
Genre:	Zombies, zombies, zombies
Starring:	Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly
Rating:	5/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083907/
Tagline:	Can They Be Stopped?
Favourite line:	"Why have you disturbed our sleep; awakened us from our ancient slumber?

The Evil Dead.
The.
Evil.
Dead.
Say it out loud. Go on. Just say it to yourself, and think about the movie itself.
One of the greatest, most appropriately evocative movie titles for one of the truly great horror movies.

The plot:
Bunch of dumb youths visit a cabin in the middle of the woods, recite a passage from The Necronomicon - The Book of the Dead, and inadvertently unleash malevolent spirits that have dwelt in the woods for aeons. They take the form of ravenous zombies with the disturbing habit of intoning "Join us!" to anyone that will listen, animation of the inanimate (clocks, books, shelving etc), a droning, wandering demonic presence in the forest itself, as well as female defiling flora.

Stunningly directed - you really are right in there - and with a soundtrack which is the stuff of nightmares, this is frenzied, cutting edge horror movie-making that is unsurpassed in its perfection.
Bizarre camera angles unnerve and disorientate, close ups add a sense of both menace and the bizarre, sometimes at the same time, and the make up work is just brilliant.
You might have guessed, I quite like this movie.
Worth chasing down too, for all of you blood fiends, is Sam Raimi's trial run in readiness for this movie, Within the Woods.