The Evil Dead (Blu-ray)
The Ultimate Experience In Grueling Terror
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 31, 2010
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bruce Campbell, Theresa Tilly, Hal Delrich, Ellen Sandweiss & Betsy Baker | |
Directed by | Sam Raimi | |
Screenwriting by | Sam Raimi | |
Composition by | Joseph LoDuca | |
Produced by | Rob Tapert | |
Director of Photography: | Tim Philo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Sam Raimi's masterpiece that's still as shocking and entertaining today as it was in 1981.
Premiere
...[A] tongue-in-cheek cult favourite...
Sight and Sound
Even though the beginning of the movie repeats the vulgar premise of the abandoned house visited by some naive young people, the truth is that uneasiness immediately takes over viewers. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: A --
The sheer passion, the ingenuity of them wanting to make this movie...a classic.
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ChrisStuckmann.com
Rating: 4/5 --
It all started in that ramshackle cabin with a little horror movie that endures over 35 years later. That's pretty groovy.
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FanboyNation.com
Rating: 4/5 --
Director Sam Raimi burst onto the horror scene with this crude cult favourite that's short on story but long on excessive gore and innovative camerawork.
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Radio Times
Short on characterisation and plot but strong on atmospheric horror and visual churns.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Director Sam Raimi's first film has achieved legendary status since its 1982 release, and for good reason. Though perhaps not as widely seen as its two sequels, EVIL DEAD 2 and ARMY OF DARKNESS, THE EVIL DEAD is arguably the best of the three. It is the story of five college-age friends who travel to a cabin in rural Tennessee where the stumble upon the Book of the Dead, an ancient tome bound in human flesh and inked in blood. After unwittingly awakening the unspeakable terror told of in the book, each of the friends is transformed into the evil dead, one by one, except for Ash (Bruce Campbell). So, Ash is left with no other way to survive than to dismember the living corpses of his sister, girlfriend, and two of his friends. Shot on a shoestring budget, the film boasts some impressive camera work and extremely over-the-top gore effects as well as a sense of humor much more subtle than the tongue-in-cheek aesthetic of the two sequels.