Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Age rating
- NC-17
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
- falsely accused
- audio tape
- aggression
- log cabin
- friends
- cabin
- zombie
- occult
- book of the dead
- evil dead
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Theresa Tilly — Shelly
- Philip A. Gillis — Fake Shemp
- Dorothy Tapert — Fake Shemp
- Cheryl Klam — 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
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 4,638 ratings
- Studio
- New Line Cinema, Renaissance Pictures
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1982 · You’re hereThe Evil Dead
Where it starts.
Evil Dead II
1987
Army of Darkness
1992
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
