Self-proclaimed as "The Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror," THE EVIL DEAD marks the directorial debut of what may be the next great practitioner of this eternally disreputable form. Writer-director Sam Raimi and his college pals took the genre by storm with this amazingly assured and exhilarating horror exercise in which narrative and characterization take a backseat to sheer cinematic panache.
Five college students take shelter in an abandoned cabin deep in the woods, where they find a strange book along with a tape explaining that the book is an ancient Sumerian Book of the Dead. The tape translates some of the incantations in the book, and giant demons ar...
Released:
1983
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins