Perhaps the only film more influential to low-budget horror filmmakers than 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, which sadly convinced many aspiring directors that all it takes to make a 100 million dollar blockbuster is to run around in the woods with a camcorder, was Sam Raimi’s original The Evil Dead. What these two films have in common is that they took the tools of movie-making out of the hands of the studios with their limitless resources and extravagant budgets and showed  how – with enough raw talent and an original concept – a simple group of individals with modest resources
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