

They made them sick enough to part with US$430,000, and Saturday the 11th November 1979, cast and crew headed for the hills. “We’d make people sick then ask them to invest,” said Raimi. The three amigos made a thirty-minute Super-8 version of The Evil Dead (1981) called Within The Woods to show to potential backers. It was either find another apartment or go into the movie business.” Raimi dropped out of college to set up Renaissance Productions with high school friends Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell. Finally, we got evicted because we were playing our Super-8 movies too loud. But we talked about it more and more over long nights in the apartment. And then Rob (Tapert) said, ‘Why don’t we make a feature film, since we seem to be doing it in Super-8?’ I thought, the poor sap doesn’t realise it isn’t possible – I’ll play his game until he finds out, because I’d hate to be the one who says no. I was expecting to drag out my college years and then take a real job doing something else. “I was in college studying literature and history and, of course, forestalling a career trying to make as many movies as I could. It wasn’t until college that Raimi changed his mind. So I started making Super-8 movies, but I never thought you could really do it as a profession.” They told me to forget about it, that I should be a handyman, a guy who troubleshoots washing machines. Then I took one of those pre-SAT’s in junior high school. “I wanted to be a meteorologist in the seventh grade,” said director Sam Raimi to Fangoria magazine. People are dying left and right one girl early in the film looses control and runs off into the woods, only to be raped by the trees.” The people start turning into evil deadites, and the others soon learn from the tape that the only way to kill a person who is turned into a deadite is by total body dismemberment. One of them plays back what is recorded on the tape– which just happens to be Candarian resurrection passages translated from the Necronomicon (Book of the Dead) by the professor, which unleashes an evil force from the woods. They discover The Book of the Dead and a tape recorder belonging to a professor, who also owns the cabin.

When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.“Five friends go to a cabin in the woods for a vacation. Storyline: Five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin.
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Stars: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci
