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The Evil Dead (1981)
Episode 31823rd October 2025 • Verbal Diorama • Verbal Diorama
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Before 20-year-old Sam Raimi could make The Evil Dead, he had to convince investors that three friends from Michigan could pull off a horror masterpiece. Enter "Within the Woods," a short film that became the ultimate pitch; screened across Detroit until enough people bought in. The result? An initial $85,000 and a one-way ticket to a freezing, abandoned cabin in Tennessee with no heat, no plumbing, and 12 weeks of pure filmmaking chaos.

Bruce Campbell's on-screen suffering was real—those bruises, cuts, and exhausted reactions weren't acting. The crew ended up living in the dilapidated cabin, inventing techniques and visual effects out of creativity and desperation. It was the epitome of low budget, inexperienced but passionate filmmaking.

The Evil Dead could have easily disappeared into low budget horror movie obscurity, though. They struggled to find domestic distribution until Stephen King saw it at Cannes and called it "the most ferociously original film of the year." That single endorsement transformed everything.

When it was released in the UK, it became the best selling VHS of the year in 1983. It was subsequently banned as the "number one video nasty" in the UK, and called too extreme for mainstream distribution. Thanks, Mary Whitehouse.

The Evil Dead rewrote the rules. It proved indie horror could be artful, that gore could be kinetic poetry, and that a cabin in the woods could become the most terrifying place on Earth. It showed a generation of filmmakers that you don't need studio money to make something revolutionary; you just need vision, determination, and friends willing to suffer for the cause.

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Hi, everyone. I'm Em, and welcome to Verbal Diorama, episode 318, The Evil Dead.

This is the podcast that's all about the history and legacy of movies you know, and movies you don't. That's creating this episode in a cabin in the woods. And nothing bad is happening. Nothing at all. The evil forces aren't making me do this.

As always, a huge hi and welcome to Verbal Diorama. Whether you're a regular returning listener, whether you're a brand new listener to this podcast, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for choosing to listen to this podcast. I'm so happy to have you here for the history and legacy of the Evil Dead.

If you are a regular returning listener, thank you so much for continuing to come back to this podcast to continue to support this podcast. This podcast has been going now almost seven years, so again, it always blows my mind just the fact that people keep coming back to this podcast.

It really does genuinely mean the world. Thank you so much for your support.

And the traditional spooky season launched with Candyman, the original Candyman, and then Wes Craven's new Nightmare. And last week, something a bit more family friendly with Hocus Pocus. But now for something that is not family friendly.

And it was actually considered a dreaded video nasty here in the UK. But really it's just a showcase for the hard work of the young creative team that is Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

Here's the trailer for the Evil Dead.

Ash. Cheryl, Scott, Linda, and Shelley are five college students who take time off to spend a peaceful vacation in a remote cabin.

They start to encounter strange occurrences and noises almost from the moment they arrive, and in the basement they find a strange book found in human skin and tape recordings.

They play the tapes for fun with the voice telling them there have been strange occurrences in the house, and once the incantations are read out loud, they unwittingly release an ancient evil force.

The friends find themselves helpless to stop the evil as it takes them one by one with only one survivor left with the Evil Dead who desperately tries to fight to live until morning. Let's run through the cast. We have Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, Ellen Sandweiss as Cheryl Williams, Richard De Manincor as Scott.

He's credited as Hal Delrich due to union reasons. Betsy Baker as Linda, Theresa Tilly as Shelley. She is credited as Sarah York due to union reasons.

The Evil Dead was written and directed by Sam Raimi now the Evil Dead is remarkable for many things. Its influence on the horror genre is well known, but really this movie was made by a plucky group of inexperienced kids with big dreams.

Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and producer Robert Tapert all grew up in Michigan. Raimi and Campbell were friends in high school and Tapert was roommates with Raimi's brother Ivan in college.

Raimi and Campbell spend their high school days shooting super low budget flicks on Super 8 movies like clockwork and It's Murder, filmed while dreaming of mounting their own feature length movie productions.

Inspired by a suspenseful scene in It's Murder, they decided to make an horror film and decided to create a horror prototype short film that they could show to investors to encourage them to finance a full length feature. That short film was within the woods and Raimi cast his friend Campbell as the main protagonist along with his other friend Ellen Sandweiss.

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In a stark contrast to the Evil Dead within the woods main protagonist was a woman played by Ellen Sandweiss.

Because you have to have your final girl, Bruce Campbell's character, then simply called Bruce, died first and obviously then came back from the dead possessed by evil spirits. The film was primarily shot at a farmhouse belonging to One of Raimi's friends located in Marshall, Michigan.

Raimi got in contact with a manager at a movie theater in Detroit, and to his surprise, the manager agreed to scream within the woods right before a midnight showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The premiere of the film received a positive reception by the audience, and the cast and crew were paid just over $10 each, all of which they donated to the American Cancer Society.

Within the woods was never commercially released, but the idea was to produce a follow up film, a follow up that could cost a little bit more than $1,600.

That script was originally titled Book of the Dead and went through numerous rewrites inspired by the plot of within the woods, but also elements from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The finished script was 66 pages long, and after the numbers were crunched, it was agreed they would need to find at least $90,000 to fund the movie.

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Guinness and Charlie Bosler, a certified public accountant, advised Ramey, Campbell and Tapert to form Renaissance Pictures as a limited partnership and drew up a legal offering which basically set out what an investor in the picture owned on a given investment and the risks, rights and responsibilities between the partners and investors. They plan to sell 15 shares in the movie at $10,000 each.

The money went into an escrow account which couldn't be accessed until they had sold at least 9 of the shares with within the Woods.

As proof of their abilities as filmmakers, Raimi, Campbell and Tapert started asking family and friends to invest and cold calling potential investors who would be financially capable of losing their entire investment. Even their lawyer, Philip Gillis, bought an additional share and a half out of his own pocket.

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Luckily, they were allowed to start filming with the $85,000 that they had originally. They wanted to film Book of the dead in Super 8 and then enlarge it to 35 millimetre.

Shooting in a format they were already familiar with was the cheapest option for the test run. They did and then blew up to 35 millimetre. To screen at a local theatre looked horrendous, so the idea of using Super 8 was shelved.

It was Robert Tapert who convinced Them they could switch to 16 millimetre and still make it work. It made sense to have Bruce Campbell and Ellen Sandweiss return, this time as siblings. Ash and Cheryl.

Campbell, as a producer on the movie, was actually the only actor who stayed for the whole filming. The other roles were cast in open auditions where they found Betsy Baker, Richard de Manincor and Teresa Tilly.

The Evil Dead would be a non union production, meaning the SAG members Richard de Manincor and Theresa Tilly, then going by her birth name Theresa Seyferth, technically weren't allowed to participate, but they did under the pseudonyms Hal Delrich and Sarah York respectively. When the Screen Actors Guild found out they had done this after they finished filming the movie, both were suspended for a year and fined.

Rayner's plan was originally to film in his native Michigan, but Michigan was known for its harsh winters. So they decided to travel south for a milder winter and chose the remote town of Morristown, Tennessee. Spoiler alert.

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Many of the crew came from within the woods, including special makeup effects artist Tom Sullivan, cinematographer Tim Phino, Scott Spiegel and Josh Becker.

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The only stipulation being they had to leave the cabin in the same condition they found it. The cabin was remote. It had no running water, no electricity, no telephone and was covered in manure. It was perfect. Basically.

It had no cellar, so they cut a trapdoor in the floor and dug a six foot hole. The actual cellar scenes would be filmed at a farmhouse in Marshall, Michigan.

The crew all worked together and installed a telephone, connected the electricity, built a porch swing and reconfigured the layout the cabin. The only thing they couldn't do was connect the water.

During pre production, some of the crew stayed in the cabin rather than the house six miles away. And let's just say it was not a particularly pleasant experience.

They'd planned six weeks shooting over November and December, but the problems, injuries and general inexperience led to it being amended to eight weeks, then to 12. The overrunning production meant a number of the cast and crew had to leave at various points. Scenes had to be rewritten and fake shemps were used.

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Screen Actors Guild contracts now ban reproducing an actor's likeness and unless the original actor gave permission to do so.

And this was largely because of a lawsuit filed by Crispin Glover, and that was following his replacement by Jeffrey Weissman in Back to the Future Part 2.

But as the actors left the Evil Dead's production with only Bruce Campbell there for the whole shoot, they had to use crew members, including Campbell himself, Sam Raimi's brother Ted Raimi, and producer Robert Tapert, along with many others, as fake shemps. They're credited as such at the end of the movie. Without the fake shemps, the movie could not have been finished.

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They filmed various driving shots as well as dismantled the bridge for the scene where the bridge is destroyed by the evil spirits. And while this was the sort of movie where everyone helped everyone else and worked together, it was also literal hell.

It was freezing cold even in the cabin with a fire and space heaters tempest frayed and there was no money. Everyone was more or less learning on the job, which meant a lot of trial and error.

Special makeup effects artist Tom Sullivan had a six week contract to work on the special effects and the makeup on Book of the Dead and only had about three weeks to prepare. He made facial castings of Ellen Sandweiss, Theresa Tilly, Betsy Baker and Richard de Manincor using plaster of Paris on a Vaseline base.

The process would end up removing Betsy Baker's eyelashes and made her skin red raw due to the heat of the plaster of Paris. Any actors that needed makeup or facial appliances were Woken up three to five hours before the morning call.

And as there was no time for making prosthetics beforehand, most of the masks were created on the actors as they continued to sleep. To save time, makeup and appliances were reused from the previous day wherever possible.

They also had to wear white spherical contact lenses which were incredibly uncomfortable and made each actor blind while using them. Any contact lens wearer knows you have to be mindful of the oxygen levels getting into your eye.

And these specific lenses could only be worn for 15 minutes at a time, up to five times a day. Bruce Campbell was the one responsible for fitting and removing the lenses. There is a lot of blood on this movie as well.

An incredible amount of blood.

The blood recipe was one large bottle of Karo corn syrup, one bottle of red food colouring, one drop of blue food colouring, half a cup of instant coffee and water mixed to a creamy paste and then stirred into the syrup to make the blood opaque. The mixture was incredibly sticky and it stuck to everything. The floors, clothes, skin, hair.

It was really hard to get out and is probably the reason why the blood continuity is probably not the best on this film. The movie was about the Book of the Dead and the actual book itself was also created by Tom Sullivan.

Made from facial casts and pouring liquid latex into the casts, gluing the skins onto corrugated cardboard and store bought parchment paper. And then during his downtime, he would illustrate and complete the book pages at the kitchen table. Not by using real human blood, though.

He also made the Kandarian dagger with 1 inch wide aluminium surrounded by a hilt made of papier mache and impressions from chicken bones and a 12 inch model skeleton kit. A hole was drilled into the mouth so they could insert a tube for blood to flow out.

The Kandarian dagger in the Evil Dead would be recycled and remodelled for Evil Dead 2. A mould was made of Betsy Baker's foot and lower leg for the shot where the possessed Cheryl stabs a pencil into her ankle.

It had a dowel rod down the centre of the mould and contained foam rubber to make the fake leg more rigid.

And then after it was baked hard, it was filled with a blood balloon which didn't burst the first time, so Theresa Tilling had to grind it in even more, which just makes that scene ever so more uncomfortable than it already is.

Expensive camera rigs were not something that this production had access to and so they had to work around the various technical issues of shooting in the wilderness.

A promised Steadicam never materialized, so cinematographer Tim Philo came Up with the shaky cam, a 2 by 6 inch 3 foot long piece of wood with a camera fixed in the middle. It could be held at either end by two people who could run with it and it would show going over bushes and round trees.

They had no dolly for tracking shots, so they improvised two 2 by 4 inch pieces of wood longer than the tracking shot, covered in duct tape and greased with vaseline. The camera was attached to an inverted U shaped piece of wood that would track over the vaseline piece.

They also used a wheelchair with 4 by 8 foot plywood sheets where someone would sit sideways in the wheelchair to shoot into the woods while being pushed. And pushed was also what was happening to everyone's limits. Sam Raimi's filming methods created a lot of tension between the cast and crew.

His shots were lengthy and complicated and he admitted to enjoying torturing his actors. And he rarely stuck to the stick figure storyboards he posted on the production house fridge.

The muddy road to the cabin froze over, making it impossible to reach by car. They had to carry all their equipment on foot a quarter of a mile. That year was the coldest Tennessee winter experienced in decades.

The cold weather was taking its toll on the filming as well in the cabin. The cabin was slowly falling apart, mostly due to all the Karo syrup blood.

The lack of running water meant a lack of hand washing facilities, with the only source of hot water an instant coffee machine.

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Their lease expired on their fairly comfortable six bedroom production house and so all five moved into the cabin. 18 to 20 hour days were the norm and they started burning furniture to keep warm.

They would finish the cabin shoot by filming for 62 hours straight to get the shots they needed. They left the cabin, destroyed as many props as they could and filled in the trapdoor hole.

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This was all made somewhat easier because principal photography had finished, so there was less risk of failure. The original actors were rehired and they spent a week in Gladwin, Michigan at the Campbell family summer cabin.

Two weeks in the Tapert family friend's farmhouse in Marshall, Michigan for the basement scenes, as well as all the shots around the fireplace which had been replicated there a few days in Hartland, Michigan on some land owned by Josh Becker's father, where the opening fourth POV swamp sequence was shot. And the rest of the shooting was done in the local Detroit area, including Sam Raimi's parents house in their garden and their garage.

For the effect shots of Shelly's dismemberment scene, which also doubled for parts of the cabin basement. They also hired editor Edna Ruth Paul. And between her Sam Raimi and Joel Cohen, they drafted a rough 117 minute work print.

While Tom Sullivan and Bart Pierce worked on the melting effects sequence which took three and a half months to complete. They disagreed over whether they should use stop motion animation or live mechanical effects.

Sullivan was a big fan of Ray Harryhausen, but Pierce was more in favour of real time mechanical and fluid effects. They agreed a combination of both would create the best result.

The movie was edited down to a more marketable 85 minutes and they cut a four minute trailer to try and raise more money. But they also needed to pay for the 16 mil to 35 mil enlargement.

Bruce Campbell's father would put a property he owned as collateral on a new loan to pay for the 35 millimetre enlargement. The end of filming didn't mean the end of the story for the cabin though. The owner, T.L.

Shockley, could no longer use the area for hunting because the cabin became a local attraction. The land surrounding it though was full of wild animal traps and he feared a fan getting her to try and find the cabin.

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Because there were so many people coming onto the land just to see the Evil Dead cabin, the police wrote it off to kids and it was just forgotten about.

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So while it's unfortunate that you can no longer visit the Evil Dead cabin, fortunately we can now segue into the obligatory Keanu reference of this episode.

And if you're new here and you don't know what that is, it's why I try and link every movie that I'm featuring with Keanu Reeves because Keanu Reeves is great.

And in an interview with Esquire, Keanu revealed that his Matrix co star Carrie Anne Moss had asked him to recommend his favourite movies for her to watch and that list of 20 movies includes classics like Seven Samurai, Raising Arizona and Monty Python and the Holy Grail and it also includes the Evil Dead.

The Evil Dead is one of Keanu Reeves favourite ever movies and I'm so happy to hear that, mostly because he has excellent choice but also I was so worried how I was going to connect him to this movie and the power of the Internet just found it for me.

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He also suggested they change the name of the film from Book of the Dead to the Evil Dead and fronted the money to create the elements needed to sell the film to foreign markets, including things like translations and the infamous chainsaw over the head and woman reaching out at the grave photos that were used for posters.

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Present at that screening was one Stephen King and he loved the movie, saying that while watching the film at Cannes he was registering things he'd never seen in a movie before.

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It led to New Line Cinema negotiating an agreement to distribute it domestically in the US Audience Reception at sneak preview screenings in Detroit and New York were wildly enthusiastic, and interest was building for the film to such an extent that wider distribution was planned.

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It took about £100,000 at British cinemas, including more than £50,000 at the Prince Charles Cinema in London alone. But not all was rosy here in the UK.

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The following year, the Video Recordings act clamped down further on the distribution of these so called video nasties. The press fuelled the fears, claiming children were being possessed by video nasties.

Copies of the Evil Dead were even hidden in churches to stop them being confiscated in police raids.

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The video recordings act caused many independent horror distributors to close due to the extreme costs of recertification to the BBFC.

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The Evil Dead performed above expectations at the box office, grossing $2.4 million domestically on its $375,000 budget worldwide. Numbers vary by source. Some say it earned $261,000 overseas, others say it earned $27 million overseas.

But Sam Raimi has always said the movie did very well overseas and poorly domestically. But either way, the movie made a huge profit and its investors earned a return of about five times their original investment.

Bob Martin, the editor of Fangoria, one of the first magazines to feature the Evil Dead, reviewed the film before its formal premiere and proclaimed that it, quote, might be the exception to the usual run of low budget horror films, unquote.

He followed up on this praise after the film's premiere, stating, quote, since I started editing this magazine, I have not seen any new film that I could recommend to our readers with more confidence that it would be loved, embraced and hailed as a new milestone in graphic horror, unquote. Critics at the time were positive about the movie, hailing its low budget, gore and shock value as well as its quality.

Despite being low budget and made by a team of inexperienced filmmakers.

Critics compared the film to the surrealistic work of Georges Franju and Jean Cocteau, and it was also compared to the Omen and the Exorcist as a key supernatural thriller.

Contemporary reviews are also positive with an 86% of rotten tomatoes, with a critical consensus of so scrappy that it feels as illicit as a book found in the woods.

The Evil Dead is a stomach churning achievement in bad taste that marks a startling debut for wunderkind Sam Raimi that it deserves its cult reputation despite the best efforts of the censors.

The box office success of the Evil Dead would lead to Campbell and Raimi, along with the Cullen brothers, to collaborate on their next movie, Crime Wave, which was a box office failure.

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Maybe you were smoking cigarettes behind a bike shed or if you're in the US pretending you were 21 so you could buy a beer. Sam Raimi couldn't legally buy a beer, but he could write, produce and direct one of the classic supernatural horror films of all time.

Hopefully he bought himself a beer to celebrate once the movie premiered at the Redford Theatre. He was definitely 21 by that point. When I was 20.

I wish I'd had the gusto to make a movie at that age and have the smarts to be able to get financial backing. Honestly, 20 year old me was a bit of a moron. I've grown so much in the last five years. Stop your laughing.

But these 20 year old kids, they got a lot right, but they didn't get everything right.

The sexual assault scene on Cheryl in particular is tough to watch and is often cited as the main reason the film was so heavily censored and banned outright in several countries. Raimi has since expressed regret on the scene, saying it was unnecessarily gratuitous and a little too brutal.

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But apart from that one issue, the Evil Dead is such an achievement. Its jump scares are some of the best, and I'm not a fan of jump scares, but I love them here. It's first person. Or should that be first spirit?

Perspective shots are so accomplished that when you realize it's literally just a camera on a plank of wood kinda makes it even more impressive. The visual effects feel professional, but also handmade and quirky. The production was absolute hell for all involved and you can see that on screen.

But more so the supernatural hell than the real lived experience of hell. And to be honest, I can absolutely believe it was an awful production. The cold alone would be enough for me to be like star in a movie? Nah.

Give me a warm duvet and a cat, please. When any young up and coming filmmaker comes to the table, this is what they want to replicate.

A movie that pays homage to the horrors that came before. The hanging boards and bones. A tribute to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as a poster for Wes Craven's the Hills have Eyes.

Craven would return the favour with the Evil Dead, seen playing on television in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

But to have a movie that's universally beloved, seen as a staple for its genre, as well as creating a cult classic in its own right, as well as a cult character in Ash Williams, whose middle name is Joanna. I love that little titbit of information.

Ash becomes the franchise's final girl, and his characterization was made more comical as the franchise continued. But the original movie was never made to have interesting characters or arcs. In many ways, these five young people are just a little too dumb.

But since when are people in horror movies ever smart? The movie starts with an evil point of view, so there's no ambiguity as to the intent here.

And just on a side note, Bruce Campbell should have been a huge star. I don't know why he never was, because he's so handsome and charismatic in all of these movies.

More so, I would say, in Evil Dead 2 and army of Darkness. But he has the goods to be a genuine Hollywood superstar and I have no idea why it never happened for him.

The Evil Dead is a love letter to genre cinema, embodying the friends lost in the woods cliché, but also a love letter to inexperience to the people who start out, to their ideas, and to what you can achieve without big studios and big budgets. It blended extreme gore, sly humour and technical wizardry that still holds up today.

The makeup effects have aged and do show their budgetary restrictions, but they still overall look great. But if you ever find yourself in a secluded cabin in the woods and some demonic entity starts making you draw a book with a face, get out.

Get out there and then don't wait. Don't be another cabin in the woods statistic. Thank you for listening. As always, I would love to hear your thoughts on the Evil Dead.

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I can't promise that the older episodes will be available for an extended period of time because after a certain number the podcast apps just stop showing the episodes. But the Cabin in the woods is still in your podcast apps. It is still available online.

And yeah, that was one of the first episodes I did for this podcast. And I really love the Cabin in the Woods. I'm never gonna visit, but I really love the movie.

I also wanted to recommend episode 216, Night of the Living Dead, because Night of the Living Dead is such a fantastic movie. In general, it's a lot more thoughtful than this movie is. The Evil Dead isn't really a zombie movie, but it also kind of is a zombie movie.

And I thought, what other zombie movies could I recommend?

I think there are a lot of parallels between the Evil Dead and Night of the Living Dead, and not just because the dead are involved, but if you've not seen the original Night of the Living Dead, I would highly recommend it. It is in the public domain. It is available on YouTube, it's available for free on the Internet.

So please find that movie and please watch it and then listen to that episode and episode 275, A Nightmare on Elm street, just because it's mentioned above. And why would I not recommend A Nightmare on Elm Street? As always, give me feedback. Let me know what you think of my recommendations.

Now, truthfully, I wasn't going to do another episode in the month of October. I have never announced that I'm going to be doing another episode in October.

I have never announced, not even to the patrons, that I was going to be doing an episode specifically for Halloween. But then I got thinking.

And what happens when I think is I get crazy ideas and I decide that I want to do episodes when I've decided I'm not going to do an episode. But I can't help but do an episode for Halloween on Evil Dead 2, now can I? Because it took everything this movie did right and bettered it.

And it took everything this movie did wrong and bettered it. It's the Evil Dead movie that I saw first. It may have actually been one of the first straight horror movies I ever saw. And I love it. Genuinely.

I love Evil Dead 2. So join me for a special Halloween episode on Halloween for Evil Dead 2, because I've started the story. I might as well continue it now.

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