Evil Dead
Evil Dead ★★½ 1983 (NC-17)
Five college students, vacationing in the Tennessee mountains, take refuge in an abandoned cabin. They find a tape and a Book of the Dead, which unwittingly lets them resurrect demons, which transform the students into evil monsters until only Ash (Campbell) remains to fight the evil. Exuberantly gory low-budgeter followed by two sequels. 85m/C VHS, DVD, UMD . Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Hal Delrich, Sarah York, Theodore (Ted) Raimi, Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel; D: Sam Raimi; W: Sam Raimi; C: Tim Philo; M: Joseph LoDuca.
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