When The Evil Dead invaded movie theaters in 1983, it detonated an atomic bomb on a stale horror-film genre overrun by masked killers and teen slashers. Made on a tiny budget, sporting Stephen King's personal seal of approval and released unrated for its violence, the movie launched the careers of actor Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice), director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) and producer Robert G. Tapert (TV's Spartacus: War of the Damned). Watching it in a theater was a riotous experience: The audience sc...
When The Evil Dead invaded movie theaters in 1983, it detonated an atomic bomb on a stale horror-film genre overrun by masked killers and teen slashers. Made on a tiny budget, sporting Stephen King's personal seal of approval and released unrated for its violence, the movie launched the careers of actor Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice), director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) and producer Robert G. Tapert (TV's Spartacus: War of the Damned). Watching it in a theater was a riotous experience: The audience sc...
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