Five friends travel to an isolated cabin in the woods on vacation, not knowing the horror in store for them. In the cabin they discover the Necronomicon, the Book of the Dead, which is in an ancient language and bound in human skin. And there just happens to be a tape recorder belonging to a professor who had been studying the book. So, of course, the kids play back the tape, which unlocks an unspeakable evil. The book has the power to turn people into deadites, which are zombies. Ash (Bruce Campbell) must fight the deadites to survive this vacation of terror, while everyone around him is killed.
Bruce Campbell | Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams | |
Ellen Sandweiss | Cheryl | |
Hal Delrich | Scott | |
Betsy Baker | Linda | |
Theresa Tilly | Shelly | |
Philip A. Gillis | Fake Shemp | |
Dorothy Tapert | Fake Shemp | |
Cheryl Guttridge | Fake Shemp | |
Barbara Carey | Fake Shemp | |
David Horton | Fake Shemp | |
Wendall Thomas | Fake Shemp | |
Don Long | Fake Shemp | |
Stu Smith | Fake Shemp | |
Kurt Rauf | Fake Shemp | |
Ted Raimi | Fake Shemp | |
Ivan Raimi | Fake Shemp | |
Bill Vincent | Fake Shemp | |
Mary Beth Tapert | Fake Shemp | |
Scott Spiegel | Fake Shemp | |
John Cameron | Fake Shemp | |
Joanne Kruse | Fake Shemp | |
Gwen Cochanski | Fake Shemp | |
Debie Jarczewski | Fake Shemp | |
Josh Becker | Car Shemp | |
Bob Dorian | Person on Recorder |
Director | Sam Raimi | |
Writer | Sam Raimi | |
Producer | Bruce Campbell, Gary Holt, Sam Raimi, Irvin Shapiro, Robert G. Tapert | |
Musician | Joseph LoDuca | |
Photography | Tim Philo |
Location | Hard Drive |
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Purchased | Mar 10, 2016 for $ 0.75 |
Quantity | 1 |
Seen | |
Added Date | Jul 06, 2017 01:32:47 |
Modified Date | May 21, 2023 06:17:55 |
Screen Ratios | Widescreen (16:9, Anamorphic) |
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Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 [French] Dolby Digital 5.1 EX [English] DTS 6.1 ES [English] |
Subtitles | Dutch | English | English (Closed Captioned) | German | Portuguese | Spanish | Turkish |
Distributor | Starz / Anchor Bay |
Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
Edition Release Date | Mar 05, 2002 |
My quick rating - 9,5/10. As near to pefect as it could possibly be. Every use of camera, sound, and gore is absolutely captivating. Made on a show string budget, the flick delivers on the scares as it truly pioneered the horror movie genre and developed the idea of a cabin in the woods. Five friends travel to an isolated cabin in the woods on vacation, not knowing the horror in store for them. In the cabin they discover the Necronomicon, the Book of the Dead, which is in an ancient language and bound in human skin. And there just happens to be a tape recorder belonging to a professor who had been studying the book. So, of course, the kids play back the tape, which unlocks an unspeakable evil. The book has the power to turn people into deadites, which are zombies. Ash (Bruce Campbell) must fight the deadites to survive this vacation of terror, while everyone around him is killed. I let the plot tell the tale, and all I can add is this movie, even with the budget manages to amaze with its stop motion camera and claymation effects mixed in with buckets of blood and creative use of sound to accentuate everything on screen. I really could go on and on about this flick (I think I have broken this down quite a bit more before) but I'll just leave it as MUST SEE.