Amuses me that the movie they disliked the most is the one that has truly stood the test of time, and is seen as a classic in modern horror, a teaching tool as to how to do low budget RIGHT, and is just a damn fun ride every time. RIP dudes, but you got this one WRONG. ;)

18:23. What we all came here for.

Feel bad for anyone that can't enjoy Evil Dead. One of my all time favourite movies.

It's interesting that the movie we all remember 35 years later is the Evil Dead.

These two always shat on the horror genre.

I have seen all these movies and The Evil Dead is the one I remember most fondly.

The Evil Dead is an excellent movie .

Evil dead kicked a$$

The Evil Dead.. that and Salem's Lot gave me nightmares for years.

I noticed several times, for different reviews, like these two didn't pay attention to the movies they reviewed. In this instance,Walter Matthau didn't join the survivalist group,he went up to warn Robin Williams's character about Jerry "Lee's" character coming to kill him.

I remember watching this just to see a clip of "Evil Dead". In retrospect I'm surprised at least one of them didn't like anything about the movie, they both loved "Dawn of the Dead".

Surprising they didn't mention the controversy surrounding the deaths involved in the making of Jon Landis' segment of the Twilight Zone movie.

...and the movie they both gave thumbs down to is really the only one of the five movies reviewed that is remembered to this day: EVIL DEAD!

Thanks for the upload!

I can't believe Ebert gave thumbs down to "The Ruling Class". I think a quintessential stunning British film.

I can respect their opinions, as they both said the same thing. "It's a really simple movie that does this thing really well. I don't like that thing and therefore didn't like the movie. If you like that thing, then you'll probably like this movie."

They don’t mention Vic Morrow who got killed filming the Twilight Zone.

They hated 99% of horror films no matter how good they were. They acted like every movie had to be Academy award calibre like The Exorcist or Carrie or The Shining

Wow, no mention of Vic Morrow and the kids deaths filming Twilight Zone.

Last three minutes for Evil Dead.

It’s funny to see them completely miss the point of the Evil Dead.

growing up in the 80s i cant tell you how frustrating it was how S&E would disregard most horror movies, they just didnt get it!

FUN TRIVIA: The sister in Joe Dante’s segment who is sucked into the television and eaten by a cartoon is also the voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons.

Evil Dead will never be a thing...

I am surprised you have all these shows -- did you work for S&E -- how do you have all this stuff? Incredible trip down memory lane.

I wish there was more full episodes from the early 80s

The Evil Dead is fucking awesome but referring to the cabin as "a vacation cottage in the woods" is like calling your local homeless shelter "a quaint little B n B".

William Shatner I had this strange dream I was on an airline and the plane had some creature tearing the wing. John Littgow you too I soooo love that reference on 3rd rock from the sun. As far as twilight zone goes it cursed John Landis 4 LIFE!!!

Almost forty years later, and which movie does everyone remember, The Grey Fox or The Evil Dead?

Oops ..clicked enter And can't edit. Continued from the below post. ...And My Favorite Year are both just can't miss movies! A for both of those for entirely different reasons. The Evil Dead. The boys were SO wrong, LOL.of course they couldn't have knownwaht it would become in terms of the genre classics. Clearly this isn't something S&E are predisposed to like but at least they noticed the filmmakers moxy. Sam Raimi made a short film ...got a little money. Spent the money on Evil Dead. Got a little more money. Spent it on Evil Dead 2...which was the SAME movie but with , well, more money to make it. Genius! Evil Dead A+++

It's funny how Robin Williams became such a fantastic dramatic actor...I enjoy his dramatic roles over his comedy..

Why did Lyons and Gabler also mention The Evil Dead in 1983 on their own version of Sneak Previews? Why did both programs exist at the same time?

Siskel was basically a baby when it came to blood and violence in films

You got to give "The Evil Dead" at least one thumb up for being an independent movie. I agree that it isn't that good but it's fantastic for the amount of money they put into it.

i would love to hear it if the video had audio.

Another thing they didn't get right this early in the series that they later corrected: the reflection of the lights in Ebert's glasses.

ED scared the shit out of me as a kid in the daytime.

“That’s the first time I’ve ever compared movie to ground beef.” LOL!

7:15 Did Ebert say Jerry Lee? He meant Jerry Reed.

Do you have any more Teddy Pendergrass clips?

I really miss them. I wonder what it would be like if they were still here in the age of streaming services

John Lithgow is way underrated.

Sound is low

Siskel and Ebert will always have a nostalgic place in our collective memory-I love them the same as every other 80s kid-but they had terrible, middlebrow taste, and they routinely and embarrassingly got swept up in the moral panics of the 70s and 80s. They missed everything that was most exciting and new, and lavishly praised safe and familiar movies that were forgotten six months after they were released. Naturally, they were obsessed with the Oscars, and talked about them constantly. While the Oscars were celebrating Out of Africa, The Dresser, and Children of a Lesser God, remarkable movies from Robocop to Eric Rohmer’s best comedies went ignored. PS: Siskel and Ebert seemed-almost intentionally-to miss the point of many popcorn movies, and I think it’s because of their class prejudice. They applauded condescending, humorless do-gooder movies ABOUT the poor but FOR the middle class (e.g., Hoop Dreams, El Norte), but any movie that working class people were likely to enjoy, they seemed very skeptical of. Anyone who went to a Friday the 13th movie on opening night, or who saw those dumb 80s teen comedies like Porky’s at the drive-in, understands how and why those movies were fun. Even today, they remain guilty pleasures. They’re meant to work the way haunted houses and rollercoasters work, and on those terms, they often succeed. Not every movie is trying to be Orson Welles’s Chimes at Midnight. There’s a term you used to see in reviews-“the moron trade.” For instance, the Newsweek magazine review of Bonnie and Clyde dismissed it as “a squalid shoot-em-up for the moron trade.” After the New Yorker praised the movie, Newsweek realized they had misread the room-what they had thought was a movie for white trash was being embraced by coastal elites-so they retracted the review and replaced it with a rave. So many of Siskel and Ebert’s reviews of the iconic movies of their era can be summed up as: “a squalid shoot-em-up for the moron trade.” Whether it was something mundane like Halloween 4 or something brilliant and game-changing like Evil Dead or The Thing, the only thing Siskel and Ebert seemed to notice was whether the film’s target audience was college-educated people or “the moron trade,” i.e., people who clean buildings and repair automobiles for a living.

Wow when it comes to Evil Dead they were so wrong

It's wonderful to watch two smug critics dislike a movie that would become a classic and horror-lover's favorite. It's the criticisms, though. Siskel's over-exaggeration of how much unshowable gore is in the movie and Ebert's criticism of its narrative spine and character development; the latter being a joke given his love for Stranger Than Paradise, a movie with absolutely no character development and a weak 'plot'.

“That’s the first time I’ve ever compared a movie to ground beef.” Lol.

Not sure if I'm alone but I can't here a thing. My speakers are working BTW.

Thank you for posting this! So I've seen all these actually. Twilight Zone The boys were right this. Hit & miss C..maybe C- The Survivors was just awful...D The Grey Fox is a quiet little gem and Farnsworth was just fantastic! B+and There Ruling Class was very British eccentric and overall pretty good. Peter O'Toole really ups the grade on this to a B but going into the late 70s & early 80's The Stuntman and My Favorite Yera

I’ve always liked The Survivors and Evil Dead.

Although Evil Dead is highly regarded, I can see why it was critiqued by the critics. It's not for everyone, but it is fun for those that understand the genre.

I remember my parents only seeing movies after a review by these two. I can't believe that they did not see anything good about Evil Dead. Interesting

LOL, watching this reminds me that "prudes" should be the last people reviewing movies.

Lol what a joke. Evil Dead is a masterpiece. And guts of Animals? Of coarse yes in reality sure, but there's no animals in the movie....

I predict they both shit on Evil Dead Yep.

I always thought Evil Dead was just good vulgar fun.

They sure do hate 95% of horror movies, don’t they??

...but they didn't mention the scene where the possessed lady chews off her own hand... lol It's odd that I don't like slasher movies or gore, yet The Evil Dead is one of my most loved movies of all time.

These guys aren't always as smart as they would have everyone believe. He didn't even know who Jerry Reed was.

It's crazy that both of these guys are dead

There were far too harsh on the Twilight Zone movie, The Survivors is a wonderfully dark comedy that I was cracking up just watching the things they showed here... and I won't even mention anything about how wrong they were regarding Evil Dead ... One thing I can definitely say however is, when these guys got stuff wrong, they seriously got it wrong, LOL

Can't hear it

Although "Evil Dead" was not my cup of tea genre-wise, I couldn't help but acknowledge Sam Raimi's obvious capacity as an uncompromising visionary filmmaker and what I saw as the movie's extremely confident sense of itself. In partial agreement with Ebert, Raimi does seem to "distill" his film into the essence of the genre in which he was working, which is a difficult and risky task for anyone to do so without making a bland, dull, derivative, and forgettable film, all of which "Evil Dead" is certainly not. Therefore, I felt more positively than negatively towards it, despite the guts.

Evil Dead grows on you..first time I think it looked cheap( which it was but that`s ok...) and not that scary..I watched it a few times and it grew on me.. I`d say the same thing about the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" but "Chainsaw" I got to see at a midnight show after I watched it on video and it was much scarier on the big screen....They have liked their share of horror movies..Siskel liked "The Thing". "Howling" " Funhouse.".".Halloween 3" Ebert " Motel Hell" " Fright night"

Twilight Zone might have been the first example of remaking something that doesn’t need to be!

...and, of course, these two stuffed shirts missed out completely on the movie "The Evil Dead", by not even mentioning The Necronomican (The Book of the Dead). Go figure, ya know? Sometimes, I get the very distinct feeling that these two hacks didn't even watch the movies that they were reviewing, or at least, not in full. I don't think that they ever liked a Horror Movie. Ever!

All hail the chin baby

I think you have to see Evil Dead as an extreme black comedy. Those two took it at face value which was predictable.

Typical S&E, if the movie doesn't have love during a war nor based on a Shakespeare story then it sucks.

Can't put my finger on it but i didn't care for this movie!!!

These two just dud not have a clue about cinema. Very superficial level of artistic intellect.