10 Most Amazing Practical Movie Effects Of The 2010s

"The Entire Movie" might seem like a bit of a cop-out, but we're being deadly serious. According to director Fede Alvarez (via io9), nothing in his 2013 reboot of The Evil Dead was CGI.

"We didn't do any CGI in the movie. There's no CGI in the movie. Everything you will see is real, which was really demanding. This was a very long shoot, 70 days of shooting at night. There's a reason people use CGI, it's cheaper and faster, I hate that. We researched a lot of magic tricks and illusion tricks. [Like] how you would make someone's arm disappear."

This means that Mia cutting her tongue, the raining blood sequence, the arm amputation (both of them), the nightmarish Deadite effects and the glass-to-the-face scene were all done practically, thanks to the aid of some magnificent makeup and costuming work - as well as several illusions.

Particularly impressive is the blood-soaked ending, which was accomplished by having several cannons shoot fake blood into the sky so it rained down upon actress Jane Levy.

How much fake blood? A reported 50,000 gallons. For comparison, Sam Raimi's original The Evil Dead used roughly 200-300 gallons for the entire movie.

More so than in any other genre, noticeable CGI in horror movies is pretty distracting. If you notice something that clearly isn't real - even for a split second - it immediately removes you from the movie, reminds you there's no real danger, and diminishes the impact of the scares.

But Evil Dead didn't have this problem at all, and that's probably why it's one of the most effective modern horror flicks ever produced.