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EVIL DEAD - 1979 Stephen King called The Evil Dead "...the most ferociously original horror film of the year.." "In the summer of 1979, Sam, Robert, and I, collected approximately $375,000 from investors in the Detroit area and made our first feature film: "The Evil Dead." I starred as Ash,a witless college student besieged by demons in a quaint cabin nestled in the Tennessee woods."The Evil Dead" was highly successful both critically and financially and officially launched our professional careers..." --- Bruce Campbell Plot Five friends go to a cabin in the woods for a vacation. They discover The Book of the Dead and a tape recorder belonging to a professor, who also owns the cabin. One of them plays back what is recorded on the tape--which just happens to be Candarian resurrection passages translated from to Necronomicon (Book of the Dead)by the professor -- this unleashes an evil force from the woods.The people start turning into evil deadites,and the others soon learn from the tape that the only way to kill a person who is turned into a deadite is by total body dismemberment.People are dying left and right; one girl early in the film looses control and runs off into the woods,only to be raped and killed by the trees.Ash ends up as the only one alive,with the movie ending with the Evil rushing up to a screaming Ash. We are left to wonder if his soul has been swallowed, or are we due for a sequel? This film is a straight bloody horror movie. Cast and Crew: Directed by: Sam Raimi Writing credits Sam Raimi Bruce Campbell....Ashley J. "Ash" Williams Ellen Sandweiss....Cheryl Williams Hal Delrich....Scotty Betsy Baker....Linda Sarah York....Shelly Philip A. Gillis....Fake Shemp Dorothy Tapert....Fake Shemp Cheryl Guttridge....Fake Shemp Barbara Carey....Fake Shemp David Horton....Fake Shemp Wendall Thomas....Fake Shemp Don Long....Fake Shemp Stu Smith....Fake Shemp Kurt Rauf....Fake Shemp Ted Raimi....Fake Shemp Ivan Raimi....Fake Shemp Bill Vincent....Fake Shemp Mary Beth Tapert....Fake Shemp Scott Spiegel....Fake Shemp John Cameron....Fake Shemp Joanne Kruse....Fake Shemp Gwen Cochanski....Fake Shemp Debie Jarczewski....Fake Shemp Sam Raimi....Fisherman on side of road/Voice of Evil Spirit Robert G. Tapert....Local Yokel (uncredited) Produced by: Bruce Campbell(executive) Gary Holt(assistant) Sam Raimi(executive) Robert G. Tapert(also executive) |
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Posters taken from Cabinet of Dr. Casey and House of Horrors homepage. |
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