
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Awards 1983 - Won - Best Low-Budget Film
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival 1982 - Won - Best Special Effects
Sitges-Catalonian International Film Festival 1982 - Won - Prize of the International Critics' Jury
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The Evil Dead
Film SynopsisFive college students venture into the Tennessee woods to spend a weekend in an isolated cabin. Instead, they find grief in the form of the Book of the Dead (a separate Babylonian text in the film, unrelated to the Egyptian text) otherwise known as the Morturom Demonto (or Necronomicon in the sequels). They find and play a tape recording of demonic incantations from the book, unwittingly resurrecting the slumbering demons that thirst for revenge. The characters are then possessed one by one by the evil force in sequences of intense, bloody violence and horrifying voice overs. Get Involved |
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Runtime:
85 min.
Genres:
Cult
Horror
Country:
UNITED STATES
Language:
English/American
Color:
Color
Plot Summary
Five college students venture into the Tennessee woods to spend a weekend in an isolated cabin. Instead, they find grief in the form of the Book of the Dead (a separate Babylonian text in the film, unrelated to the Egyptian text) otherwise known as the Morturom Demonto (or Necronomicon in the sequels). They find and play a tape recording of demonic incantations from the book, unwittingly resurrecting the slumbering demons that thirst for revenge. The characters are then possessed one by one by the evil force in sequences of intense, bloody violence and horrifying voice overs.
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Directed by
Sam Raimi
Writing credits
Sam Raimi
Cast
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