

When she manages to escape and returns to the cabin bruised and anguished, Ash agrees to take her back into town, only to discover that the bridge to the cabin has been destroyed. Later that evening, an agitated Cheryl goes into the woods to investigate strange noises, where she is attacked and raped by demonically possessed trees. Cheryl yells for Scott to turn off the tape recorder, and a tree branch breaks one of the cabin's windows. Scott plays a tape of incantations that resurrect a demonic entity.

They find the Naturom Demonto, a Sumerian version of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, along with an archaeologist's tape recorder, and they take the items upstairs. When the cellar trapdoor flies open during dinner, Shelly, Linda, and Cheryl remain upstairs as Ash and Scott investigate the cellar. Although shaken, she does not mention the incident. Her hand becomes possessed, turns pale and draws a picture of a book with a demonic face on its cover.

While Cheryl draws a picture of a clock, the clock stops, and she hears a faint, demonic voice tell her to "join us". Approaching the cabin, the group notices the porch swing move on its own but suddenly stop as Scott grabs the doorknob. įive Michigan State University students – Ash Williams, his girlfriend Linda, his sister Cheryl, their friend Scott and Scott's girlfriend Shelly – vacation at an isolated cabin in rural Tennessee. The character of Ash Williams is also considered to be a cultural icon.
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The Evil Dead spawned a media franchise, beginning with two direct sequels written and directed by Raimi, Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992), a fourth film, Evil Dead (2013), which serves as a soft reboot and continuation, and a follow-up TV series, Ash vs Evil Dead, which aired from 2015 to 2018 the franchise also includes video games and comic books. It launched the careers of Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell, who have continued to collaborate on several films together, such as Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.

Both early and later critical reception were universally positive in the years since its release, the film has developed a reputation as one of the most significant cult films, cited among the greatest horror films of all time and one of the most successful independent films. The Evil Dead grossed $2.4 million in the US and between $2.7 and $29.4 million worldwide. Horror author Stephen King gave a rave review of the film, which resulted in New Line Cinema acquiring its distribution rights. The completed film attracted the interest of producer Irvin Shapiro, who helped screen the film at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Principal photography took place on location in a remote cabin located in Morristown, Tennessee, in a difficult filming process that proved extremely uncomfortable for the cast and crew the film's extensive prosthetic makeup effects and stop-motion animations were created by artist Tom Sullivan. Raimi, Tapert, Campbell and their friends produced the short film Within the Woods as a proof of concept to build the interest of potential investors, which secured US$90,000 to begin work on The Evil Dead. After they find an audio tape that, when played, releases a legion of demons and spirits, four members of the group suffer from demonic possession, forcing the fifth member, Ash Williams (Campbell), to survive an onslaught of increasingly gory mayhem. The film focuses on five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a remote wooded area. The Evil Dead is a 1981 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, produced by Robert Tapert and executive produced by Raimi, Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, who also starred alongside Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManicor, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly.
