The Evil Dead

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Five vacationing college students unwittingly arouse a number of evil demons from their ancient slumber. As a result, the students are turned into hideous monsters.









Five teens go into the woods and accidentally release evil by playing a taped translation of the Necronomicon. One by one they turn into zombies - the evil dead.



Punk kids with no formal film training (and more ambition than money) have always been drawn towards low-budget horror movies, most of them destined for Kim Newman's dungeon. But Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead reigns supreme, the knock-off drive-thru cheapie that became an iconic, oft-imitated classic.

Its reputation is deserved. Darker, and scarier, than its hyper-kinetic remake/sequel, Raimi's movie melds chunks of Night Of The Living Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and - bizarrely - The Three Stooges, into a tense, gory whole. Unbound by cinematic convention, Raimi unleashed his free-range camera, and ghoulish, omnipresent sound effects to create a bleak, paranoid atmosphere and a raft of sudden, effective shocks.

There's even a hint of the grungy edge that condemned the film to the infamous Video Nasties list in the mid-'80s: namely, the still-shocking tree rape sequence. And, if you can overlook the mostly lame-o acting, cheeseball effects and fumbling drama, there's enough fledgling genius here to fill another thousand horror movies.



The punk kids did good.










Bruce Campbell ...  Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams
Ellen Sandweiss ...  Cheryl
Richard DeManincor ...  Scott (as Hal Delrich)
Betsy Baker ...  Linda
Theresa Tilly ...  Shelly (as Sarah York)
Philip A. Gillis ...  Fake Shemp (as Phil Gillis)
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




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