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Directed by Sam Raimi | 120 minutes | R 18+ | 45th Anniversary |
10:15pm Friday, 15 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 1 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
"You bastards, why are you torturing me like this???" The Evil Dead, full frame, with original mono soundtrack, as Raimi intended
Co-Presented by Video Days
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. Raimi’s seminal horror made a cult icon of Bruce Campbell and turned its director into hot property.
Much imitated but never bettered, The Evil Dead was the birth of an independently-spirited, viscerally-minded new wave in low-budget horror cinema.
SIMILAR: City of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, The Blair Witch Project, Braindead, Demons, Cabin in the Woods (minus Joss Whedon)
"Ferociously original horror" - Stephen King, Twilight Zone Magazine
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual violence
SCREENS WITH FUCK THE DEVIL (1990, dir. Michel Pollklesener, 37 mins)
Everybody digs Sam Raimi’s seminal 1981 indie The Evil Dead, but not all of us are German DIY filmmaker Michael Pollklesener. Shooting the ultimate underground fan film in his apartment building—and casting himself as masked madman 'The Fucker'. Pollklesener offers a grainy SOV tribute, where the squibs are juicy and the end credits are completely adorable.
Scored by Casio beats and demented growls, it’s a grubby cautionary tale in which a VHS of the Raimi film is a cursed object. Deadite darkness is spreading, and it’s got a whole lotta heart (and intestines).
"this subversive bedroom sludge exists because of an unconditional love for horror movies, and a desire to emulate that love." - Joseph A Ziemba, Bleeding Skull
"pleated jeans, and sweatpants with suspenders...Germany really is the epitome of the cultural elite." - 13beersl8r, Letterboxd
SIMILAR: Things, Halloween Party, Possibly in Michigan, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, the films of Charles Pinion
Country: United States
Year: 1981 + 1990
Language: English