The Evil Dead News

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Toward the end of October, word got out that Grindhouse Releasing was going to be making lots of classic horror fans very happy by bringing Sam Raimi's brilliant debut, The Evil Dead back to theaters as a midnight movie on select dates at specific theaters around the country.

More often than not, I really wish I'd been born earlier and had the opportunity to see horror classics like The Evil Dead on the big screen.

Did you survive Black Friday with a few dollars left in your pocket? If so, you need to see the new 10-color "Ladies of the Evil Dead : Extreme Edition" T-shirt from Fright Rags.

Running Time: 90 minutes, approx. MPAA Rating: Not Rated Language: Norwegian with English Subtitles Official Site Reviews " Cheery, silly, splattery, and respectful of its elders .

Evil Dead Returning to Theaters...to Build Buzz for Evil Dead 4 ? Friday November 6, 2009 © New Line Perhaps buoyed by the success of midnight screenings of Paranormal Activity , the creators of the gory 1981 cult classic The Evil Dead will be bringing the film back to theaters in 2010.

Sam Raimi is best known as the man behind the "Spiderman" franchise, but he's also widely regarded as a master of the macabre and of horror.

Don't ask me why. But the first gift my wife ever received from me was a DVD titled "Evil Dead 2," the mid 80s cult comedy horror flick directed by Sam Raimi.

"Paranormal Activity," you'd think it was the first low-budget horror film that ever managed to get a rise out of audiences.

Over the last 20 years cinema has changed significantly with regards to the horror genre.

Though he got his start making two over-the-top cult horror film favorites - "The Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn" - director Sam Raimi subsequently diversified into.... Though he got his start making two over-the-top cult horror film favorites - "The Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn" - director Sam Raimi subsequently diversified ...

The Ringwald's staging of "Evil Dead: The Musical" comes with an important distinction: It's playing just a stone's throw from the building where the "Evil Dead" filmmakers once had their production offices.

Emily Kester and TJ Austin are in UNCGa s production of Evil Dead. Credit: Chris English/News & Record Want to go? What: "Evil Dead: The Musical" When: 7 and 10 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Oct.

It's only mid-October and already you're stuck in a Halloween DVD rut, resigned to "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and movies that star silent serial killer Michael Myers.

The long anticipated Spike Jonze-Dave Eggers adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theaters this weekend, and Sam Raimi's latest film Drag Me to Hell is newly out on DVD and Blu-Ray. I could be wrong, but I suspect the audiences for these two films overlap more than you might expect.

Italian flick 'Suspiria' is among the films being screened. 25 Hour Horror Feast After 80 years, The Little Theatre is trying something new.

You loved the movie, what about the DVD? Find out as we examine the extras on this week's best DVDs.

Set your Wednesdays to "Scare" for not one but two rarely seen cult classics of the 1980s on the big screen at the Colony Theatre.

After a side trip into action territory with Doomsday and the upcoming Centurion , Descent director Neil Marshall is returning to full-blooded horror, with a little help from Sam Raimi .

More than any other film genre, horror has thrived - and sometimes shriveled - with the onslaught of sequels.