The Evil Dead [Steelbook] (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: May 20, 2014
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly & Hal Delrich | |
Directed by | Sam Raimi | |
Screenwriting by | Sam Raimi | |
Produced by | Rob Tapert | |
Director of Photography: | Tim Philo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
The movie plays like an entry point into the infectious minds of ambitious overachievers, who do exactly what they want and offer no apologies.
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Cinemaphile.org
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)
...[A] tongue-in-cheek cult favourite...
Sight and Sound
Rating: A --
The sheer passion, the ingenuity of them wanting to make this movie...a classic.
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ChrisStuckmann.com
[H]ighly effective as a tense horror -- its scares balanced by plenty of tongue-in-cheek humour.
Sight and Sound
...Raimi maintains suspense and a nightmarish mood...
Variety
Sam Raimi directed this 1983 horror feature fresh out of film school, and his anything-for-an-effect enthusiasm pays off in lots of formally inventive bits.
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Chicago Reader
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.