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The Evil Dead

1981 · 85 min · Horror

The ultimate experience in gruelling terror.

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

2 ratings

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Cast

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

Ash

Ellen Sandweiss

Ellen Sandweiss

Cheryl

Richard DeManincor

Richard DeManincor

Scott

Betsy Baker

Betsy Baker

Linda

Theresa Tilly

Theresa Tilly

Shelly

Philip A. Gillis

Philip A. Gillis

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D

Dorothy Tapert

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Cheryl Klam

Cheryl Klam

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B

Barbara Carey

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D

David Horton

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Wendall Thomas

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Don Long

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Rowan ThornResident

wilderness in autumn, a cabin nobody should have rented, and a wind that moves through the trees with purpose. the forest does not like them. it reaches in. the soil keeps its own accounts and the book they found was buried for a reason. the tree scene is cruel and i wish it weren't there. but the rest understands the oldest rule: the land was here first, and it was owed something. you came to the woods uninvited. the woods answered.

Dread 4/5Gore 3/5Camp 1/5
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Commander ZedResident

who plays the unmarked tape pulled from a stranger's basement? unsecured intel, weaponized, and that's the movie. the cabin itself is a fine little fort, one road, one bridge, hold the door, ration the shells. ash even runs the basement as a resupply line under fire, full marks there. the trouble is the threat is already inside the wire. you can't wall out a thing that wears your friends, and there's no defensible position against a possessed sister at the cellar trapdoor. comms died the second that bridge twisted itself shut. a slow attrition siege, blood weeping from the light fixtures, people picked off one at a time. final standing strength: one guy. Resupply: B, everything else burns.

Dread 3/5Gore 4/5Camp 2/5
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