It’s as much a part of Halloween in metro Detroit as Devil’s Night, M&M’s and Pontiac’s Erebus Haunted Attraction.
“The Evil Dead,” the cult horror movie classic directed by a very young Sam Raimi (the “Spider-Man” franchise) returns to the Redford Theater on Friday, Oct. 31, for a Halloween night screening at 8 p.m. The film had its first public showing at the Redford on Oct. 15, 1981, under its original title: “Book of the Dead.”
Bruce Campbell in “The Evil Dead.”
Raimi was just 21 when he shot the movie with actor Bruce Campbell, then 22, in rural Tennessee in the fall of 1980. The two had been friends since their days at Wylie E. Groves High School in Beverly Hills.
The plot, for the uninitiated, centers on five college students who take a vacation at an isolated cabin in the woods, where they find an audiotape that, when played, releases a host of demons. Four members of the group become possessed by demons, forcing the fifth member (Campbell), to survive an onslaught of gory mayhem.
The film, made on a shoestring budget, launched a franchise that includes four movie sequels and spin-offs (a fifth is expected in summer 2026), a TV series, comic books, video games and a stage musical.
The Redford will be showing a 35mm print of the movie. Admission is $7 adults, $5 seniors. The theater is at 17360 Lahser Road in Detroit.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: ‘The Evil Dead’ returns to Detroit’s Redford Theatre for Halloween
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