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The Evil Dead is a 1981 horror film directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell.
The story is simple: Five college students venture into the wooded mountains of Tennessee to spend a weekend of fun in an isolated cabin. Instead, the teenagers find the "Book of the Dead" (also referred to as "Naturan Demantos" in the film and "Necronomicon Ex Mortis" in the two sequels, although it is not actually related to the book of that name from the Cthulhu Mythos), play a tape recording of demonic incantations from the Book, and unknowingly open a portal to the netherworld. The characters are then killed off in a somewhat disjointed sequence of scenes of extremely intense, bloody and realistic-looking violence, and the film ends with the apparently invisible evil spirit bearing down on the last survivor.
Two sequels were made, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness, although Army of Darkness was not a horror film. Many consider Evil Dead II to be a remake of the original. This controversy stems from the beginning of the film, where the story of the first movie is summarized, though done so with some changes to the script. The creators, however, have repeatedly stated that Evil Dead II is, in fact, a sequel.
The series is regarded as a cult classic, and a book, The Evil Dead Companion (Bill Warren, ISBN 0312275013), has been written about it.
In Germany, the movie's release was hindered by public authorities for almost 10 years. During the ten year legal battle between original distributor VCL, legislation was introduced effectively banning anyone under the age of 18 to enter a video rental store. Original 1982 video releases of the movie had been seized, making the movie a hit on the black market video circuit, with pirated copies abound. A heavily edited version was first made available in 1992. On DVD, the film has been made available uncut for the first time on the German market since it's original release in the 1980's. In other German language markets, the movie was neve restricted from distribution. Several high-profile horror enthusiasts, among them even author Stephen King, publically criticized the German ban on the movie.
References to Evil Dead have appeared in several different productions:
Movies:
- Dogma
- Scream
- Donnie Darko
- High Fidelity
- A Nightmare On Elm Street
- Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
- Shaun of the Dead
- Duke Nukem series
- Blood series
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