.seo-fallback{max-width:46rem;margin:0 auto;padding:2.5rem 1.25rem 4rem; font:16px/1.6 Inter,system-ui,sans-serif;color:#EDE9F5;background:#0E0A1B} .seo-fallback a{color:#FFCA3A} .seo-fallback h1{font-size:1.75rem;line-height:1.2;margin:.5rem 0 1rem} .seo-fallback h2{font-size:1.05rem;margin:2rem 0 .5rem;color:#9C93B8; text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.08em} .seo-fallback ul{padding-left:1.1rem;margin:.5rem 0} .seo-fallback li{margin:.3rem 0} .seo-fallback .seo-meta{color:#9C93B8;font-size:.9rem} .seo-fallback .seo-note{margin-top:2.5rem;color:#9C93B8;font-size:.85rem; border-top:1px solid #2A2340;padding-top:1rem}

FilmSkool — a free film school

The Evil Dead (1981)

Name: The Evil Dead
Director: Sam Raimi
Genre: drama film, fantasy film, horror film
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 7.3

The Evil Dead is a 1981 American independent supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi and the first installment in the Evil Dead franchise. The film stars Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly as college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in the woods, where they find an audio tape that, when played, releases a legion of demonic entities. Most of…

Directed by Sam Raimi · Music by Joseph LoDuca · Ratio Academy ratio · 85 min

Behind the scenes

The Evil Dead 'The Ladies Of The Evil Dead' Featurette 1981 ‧ Supernatural Horror ‧ Sam Raimi — Filmography Guy · 29 min

Elsewhere

More by Sam Raimi

The Kingkiller Chronicle
Spider-Man in film
It's Murder! — 1977
Within the Woods — 1978
Clockwork — 1978
Crimewave — 1985
Evil Dead II — 1987
Darkman — 1990
Army of Darkness — 1992
The Quick and the Dead — 1995
A Simple Plan — 1998
For Love of the Game — 1999
The Gift — 2000
Spider-Man — 2002
Spider-Man 2 — 2004
Spider-Man 3 — 2007
Spider-Man 2.1 — 2007
Drag Me to Hell — 2009
Oz the Great and Powerful — 2013
The Black Ghiandola — 2017
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — 2022
Send Help — 2026

This is the plain index, shown because JavaScript is off. Every lesson here is a free video published by the channel credited on it and plays through that channel's own embed — FilmSkool hosts nothing.