Rent The Evil Dead (1981)
3.7 of 5 from 255 ratings
1h 25min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Ever-present, ever-listening, the Evil Dead lie in wait for the one ancient incantation that will give them license to possess the living. Watch in horror as five vacationing college students unwittingly resurrect these slumbering demons, and are forced into battle with the supernatural forces that occupy the forests and dark bowers of man's domain. The innocent must suffer. The guilty must be punished. One-by-one, the students are possessed by these demons whose thirst for revenge is insatiable. As the night wanes, only one man remains... Ash. He must now defend himself while trying to uncover the horrible secret of The Evil Dead.
- Actors:
- Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly, Philip A. Gillis, Dorothy Tapert, Cheryl Guttridge, Barbara Carey, David Horton, Wendall Thomas, Don Long, Stu Smith, Kurt Rauf, Ted Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Bill Vincent, Mary Beth Tapert, Scott Spiegel, John Cameron
- Directors:
- Sam Raimi
- Producers:
- Robert Tapert, Irvin Shapiro
- Voiced By:
- Bob Dorian
- Writers:
- Sam Raimi
- Aka:
- Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead
- Studio:
- Anchor Bay
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Horror
- Collections:
- Top Films, Horror, The Best Demonic Possession and Exorcism Films, Top 10 Films Turned Into TV Series, Top Horror Franchise Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 11/10/2010
- Run Time:
- 85 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Today's Top Horror Filmmakers Discus the Undying Legacy of 'The Evil Dead'
- All-New Commentary by Writer/Director Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Rob Taperr
- The Untold Saga of 'The Evil Dead', an in-depth documentary
- Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor
- And Much More!
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 16/11/2020
- Run Time:
- 86 minutes
- Languages:
- Czech Dolby Digital 5.1, English, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Polish Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Complex Mandarin, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Today's Top Horror Filmmakers Discus the Undying Legacy of 'The Evil Dead'
- Commentary by Writer/Director Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert
- The Untold Saga of 'The Evil Dead', an in-depth documentary
- Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor
- And Much More!
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Reviews (3) of The Evil Dead
Better than the 2013 remake ? - The Evil Dead review by RP
I've recently seen the super-gory 2013 remake so I thought watching the original was in order.
It's a low budget film (IMDB estimates $375,000) directed by Sam Raimi who went on to greater things with further 'Evil Dead' films and the 'Spider-Man' trilogy as well as scriptwriting and producing.
Five friends go off to a cabin in the woods where they find a mysterious book, an incantation from which causes demonic possession. The friends turn into zombie-like killers and there is assorted violence, mayhem and slaughter. Err, that's it.
Way back in 1981 there was no CGI or digital effects, so the effects in the film are somewhat clumsy by today's standards. But it's a classic of the genre and set the scene for many (all?) of the horror films made over the last 30 years.
Great stuff - and in many ways better than the 2013 remake, so I'll give it one more star just for that. 4/5 stars - but that is over-generous.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
seriously scary - The Evil Dead review by CP Customer
i first watched this film as a youngster and it scared the living day lights out of me. now as im older i thought it wouldnt have the same effect. even though there is some parts in the film that are a bit silly and your left thinking why would they do that, it still is one of the scariest films ive seen. DONT watch it on your own, but DO watch it
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Holiday from Hell - The Evil Dead review by Steve
This low budget horror was once controversial for the ultra-gore which led to a VHS ban during the '80s video-nasty panic. Some mature looking college kids crash a remote cabin to party, but the woods are possessed. Soon four of them are ghouls who want Bruce Campbell to join them.
The old school aspects have lasted best, like the use of darkness to stimulate the terrors of the imagination, so much scarier than can be shown on screen. Plus the arcane Lovecraftian paraphernalia about the book of the dead opening up a portal of demons, which is genuinely spooky...
Though not really groundbreaking. This made an impact because of the extreme grotesquery, which has dated badly. OK it's home made splatter horror, so what can you expect? But the makeup, models and stop-motion effects are dreadful. Even if some of the camera tricks are innovative.
Sam Raimi's debut feature may have undermined the moral crusade against gross-out horror, because it was admired by respectable critics, and the violence has a slapstick feel- apparently inspired by The Three Stooges! There's a big cult out there, but the uninitiated may be disappointed.
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