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The Evil Dead
1981
· Movie
· 85 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1436
- IMDb #1428
- Google retired #1812
- Rotten Tomatoes #1128
- Metacritic #1032
- Letterboxd #1742
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1579
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1203
- Metacritic Critics #1423
- Metacritic Audience #609
- Criticker #1025
- Douban #1577
- Kinopoisk #1985
- AlloCiné #1432
Every rating
57–86
out of 100
Five friends travel to a remote cabin in the woods for a vacation. In the cellar, they find an ancient book and a tape recording that, when played, releases a host of demonic entities. These malevolent forces possess the vacationers one by one, turning them into murderous creatures and forcing the survivors to fight for their lives.
Details
- Director
- Sam Raimi
- Writer
- Sam Raimi
- Studio
- Renaissance Pictures
- Released
- 16 January 1983
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Rated
- NC-17
- Budget
- $350.0K
- Box office
- $29.4M
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Awards
5 wins & 1 nomination total
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