The Evil Dead
- Release Date
- September 10, 1981
- Director
- Sam Raimi
- Cast
- Bruce Campbell , Ellen Sandweiss , Richard DeManincor , Betsy Baker , Theresa Tilly , Philip A. Gillis
- Runtime
- 85
- Main Genre
- Horror
- Writers
- Sam Raimi
- Tagline
- Can they be stopped?
- Website
- http://www.deadites.net/
Summary
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.
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