Rish Outfield's reviews
This film was really hard to appreciate. It was shot on video, with what looked like some guy's mother's camcorder. It had no originality whatsoever. It trudged along at an abysmally slow pace. There were no breakout performances or faces I'd like to see again. The scares to laughs ratio was inadvertently skewed. At least one of the nude scenes was gross and unwelcome. There was no gore or clever death scenes. The story made little sense and the character motivations couldn't have been less real. But I saw it with two much less patient filmgoers, and they seemed to think it was the worst movie they had ever seen. Oh, not true, folks. It at least had the skeleton of a story, it had so much dialogue that I never truly got bored, it had so many mandatory cliches that it was fun to see them thrown in, and it had at least one semi-frightening scene where scary voices called a girl's name. There was one moment in the film, where the beefy blonde heroine axed someone offscreen to death, where her dress slid halfway off as she was splattered with blood, that I found quite visually impressive (even if it wasn't intentional). Plus, the title, The Evilmaker, was so unusual and unapologetically bad, that it provided a great deal of fun for us ("Uh oh, this looks like the Evilmaker's doing!" "That sounds a lot like the Evilmaker." "Hmmm, the fact that the mailbox on the house said 'Mr. and Mrs. Evilmaker' should have clued them in."). And most importantly, even if there was nothing redeemable about the movie, I have to admire anybody who has the patience to make a feature-length horror film, even a grade Z horror film on video. I've coerced my friends into making three-minute films that stressed our relationships and didn't get completed, so I'm able to appreciate this accomplishment, even if nobody else is.

The tyranist's thoughts
As of this writing, I believe that The Evilmaker sets the record for the most diverse number of skulls. With only one double skull, it racked up more varieties than anything else. Usually a lot of skulls is an indication that I was looking for something to do during the movie. In this case, it is almost like they made an honest effort to include as many cliches as they could.
A woman recently separated from her husband by reason of adultery is picked up and taken on a trip by three of her friends. Naturally, their car breaks down in the mountains and they are left to fend for themselves. Luckily they find an unoccupied house to spend the evening in. Of course, it's haunted.
With a very small cast and obviously small budget, there was a real need to make up for some of the lacks with a solid script. They didn't do too bad, but I must say that the idea has far more potential than is realized on screen. The women friends lost in the woods idea has been done before and in this respect the movie bears a lot of resemblance to Mother's Day. It doesn't feature the hyper-realistic violence of that movie, but it has some of the feel and a few of the plot turns.
For me the movie hovered between being entertaining and just repetetive. It takes an unusual amount of time to get to the horror bits and there isn't really any build up before them. There are a bunch of headache-inducing scenes filmed with a strobe light that seem to come out of nowhere and the closer you get to the end of the film, the less they try to do things that make sense.
I was enamored of the nice Oregon scenery and actually found myself liking some of the characters in spite of a few spots of rough performance. I think with a little more thought and effort this could have been a very nice film.