Actors: Bruce Campbell
Directors: Sam Raimi
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Full Screen
Language: English, French
Region: Region 1 U.S. and Canada only.
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 3
Rating: NC-17
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
DVD Release Date: December 18, 2007
Run Time: 85 minutes
ASIN: B000WC3864
In the fall of 1979, Sam Raimi and his merry band headed into the woods of rural Tennessee to make a movie. They emerged with a roller coaster of a film packed with shocks, gore, and wild humor, a film that remains a benchmark for the genre. Ash (cult favorite Bruce Campbell) and four friends arrive at a backwoods cabin for a vacation, where they find a tape recorder containing incantations from an ancient book of the dead. When they play the tape, evil forces are unleashed, and one by one the friends are possessed. Wouldn't you know it, the only way to kill a "deadite" is by total bodily dismemberment, and soon the blood starts to fly. Raimi injects tremendous energy into this simple plot, using the claustrophobic set, disorienting camera angles, and even the graininess of the film stock itself to create an atmosphere of dread, punctuated by a relentless series of jump-out-of-your-seat shocks. The Evil Dead lacks the more highly developed sense of the absurd that distinguish later entries in the series--Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness--but it is still much more than a gore movie. It marks the appearance of one of the most original and visually exciting directors of his generation, and it stands as a monument to the triumph of imagination over budget. --Simon Leake
Product Description
More than 25 years ago, a low-budget movie its young producers called The Ultimate Experience In Grueling Terror roared across movie screens and changed the velocity of fear forever. Today, its ferocious ingenuity, relentless shocks and gore-gushing havoc remain an absolute standard of modern horror. Now celebrate the original Sam Raimi
masterpiece like never before with two versions of the movie, six new featurettes that revisit the film s cast, crew, biggest fans and undying legacy, plus a jaw-dropping torrent of never-beforeseen production footage, outtakes and deleted scenes, reconstructed and restored for the first time ever. This is truly The Ultimate Edition of THE EVIL DEAD.
