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· Year: 1982
· Also known as: Book of the Dead, The Evil Dead, the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Horror
· Director: Sam Raimi
· Writer: Sam Raimi
· Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss
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Part of the Evil Dead series.
· Read a review of the score. |
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· The Evil Dead was an early 16mm project for director Sam Raimi and his compatriots. They spent well over two months filming in a cabin in Tennessee (that was reportedly haunted in real life and burned down not long after production) during the winter of 1979-80, one of the most brutal in that state's recent history. The making of the film is covered in great detail in The Evil Dead Companion and is a part of Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor. · Banned or cut in several countries.
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Amazon.com
· DVD: Book of the Dead limited edition · VHS: Collector's edition · VHS: Clamshell packaging · CD: Score (ED series box set) · Book: The Evil Dead CompanionAmazon.co.uk
· Book: The Evil Dead Companion |
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A group of five students, on vacation in a cabin deep in the Tennessee woods, discover an ancient book of incantations. After they read the passages, an evil force is unleashed within the forest, and it turns them into almost indestructible zombies . . . until only one is left.
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#4
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RATING
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Definitive proof that "amateur" does not necessarily equate with "shitty." Sam Raimi has created one of the most grueling, punishing horror films ever made, and he's made it with style, imagination, humor, perversity, and blood. Lots and lots of blood. Raimi's directing is still raw at this point, but it fits the material; the amateurish acting does nothing to hurt the story, and in fact helps it. Hard to sit through, but for all the right reasons--when Stephen King said ED was "ferociously original," he knew what he was talking about. This film blows me away every time I watch it. |
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