Plot
The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Release Year: 1987
Rating: 7.8/10 (57,501 voted)
Critic's Score: 69/100
Director:
Sam Raimi
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Storyline A young man, named Ash, takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin in the woods where he plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other.
Writers: Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel
Cast: Bruce Campbell
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Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams
Sarah Berry
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Annie Knowby
Dan Hicks
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Jake
Kassie Wesley DePaiva
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Bobby Joe
(as Kassie Wesley)
Ted Raimi
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Possessed Henrietta
(as Theodore Raimi)
Denise Bixler
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Linda
Richard Domeier
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Ed Getley
John Peakes
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Professor Raymond Knowby
Lou Hancock
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Henrietta Knowby
Snowy Winters
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Dancer
Sid Abrams
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Fake Shemp
Josh Becker
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Fake Shemp
Scott Spiegel
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Fake Shemp
Thomas Kidd
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Fake Shemp
Mitch Cantor
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Fake Shemp
Taglines:
The Sequel To The Ultimate Experience In Grueling Terror
Filming Locations: De Laurentiis Studios, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $3,600,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $807,260
(USA)
(15 March 1987)
(310 Screens)
Gross: $5,923,044
(USA)
(1987)
Technical Specs
Runtime:|
Sweden:
(video version)
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Director Trademark:
[Sam Raimi]
[chainsaw]
Ash's weapon of choice is a chainsaw throughout the movie.
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes:
When Ash shoots bobby Jo, she holds her upper arm and there is no blood on her jacket or a bullet hole, yet when she takes her jacket off the bullet wound is on her collarbone
Quotes: Henrietta:
I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul! Ash:
[Aims shotgun at Henrietta's face]
Swallow this.
User Review
An electrifying roller coaster ride of a movie!
Rating: 10/10
This film, is without a shadow of a doubt, one of finest, most imaginative
comedy horror films ever made. Raimi, has put all the aspects of the film
together in masterful fashion. The camera work and sound effects are
pulsating, and the timing is perfection. And in Bruce Campbell, the film
as
a lead actor who gives an exceptional performance. Campbell plays "Ash",
an
everyday, supermarket attendant who suddenly finds himself thrown into the
unusual situation of having to defend himself against, zombies, evil
spirits
and even his own possessed hand, just in order to survive the
night.
I laughed, I gasped, and I gripped the arm of my chair
throughout!
If you like your comedies, black and hilarious, and your horror, gory and
sensational, then look no further. Raimi has created the definitive
comedy
horror! Fantastic!
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