{"id":2054621,"date":"2025-09-27T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2054621"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:41:09","slug":"joe-masefield-the-evil-dead-sound-editor-dies-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/joe-masefield-the-evil-dead-sound-editor-dies-at-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Masefield, \u2018The Evil Dead\u2019 Sound Editor, Dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joseph R. Masefield, the multihyphenate who co-wrote the 1979 film \u201cDon\u2019t Go in the House<\/a>\u201d and supervised sound editing on Sam Raimi<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Evil Dead<\/a>,\u201d died Sept. 24 in Brooklyn, New York. He was 92.<\/p>\n

Born in 1933, Masefield served as the supervising sound editor on \u201cThe Evil Dead<\/a>\u201d in 1981, as well as \u201cAlone in the Dark<\/a>\u201d in 1982 and \u201cSavage Dawn<\/a>\u201d in 1985. He edited the footage for \u201cA New Life<\/a>\u201d in 1981 and the effects for \u201cNaked Came the Stranger\u201d in 1975.<\/p>\n

He also worked as a production manager on early Imax documentaries \u201cTo Fly\u201d and \u201cLiving Planet\u201d in 1976 and 1979, respectively. His screenwriting debut, \u201cDon\u2019t Go in the House<\/a>,\u201d was a horror film that he penned with Ellen Hammill<\/a> and director Joseph Ellison<\/a>. The film starred Dan Grimaldi<\/a>, Robert Osth<\/a><\/p>\n

and Ruth Dardick<\/a>. He followed up \u201cDon\u2019t Go in the House<\/a>\u201d with \u201cMassacre at Central High<\/a>,\u201d which he co-wrote with director Rene Daalder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1971, Masefield joined Costello Productions<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph R. Masefield, the multihyphenate who co-wrote the 1979 film \u201cDon\u2019t Go in the House\u201d and supervised sound editing on Sam Raimi\u2019s \u201cThe Evil Dead,\u201d died Sept. 24 in Brooklyn, New York. He was 92. Born in 1933, Masefield served as the supervising sound editor on \u201cThe Evil Dead\u201d in 1981, as well as \u201cAlone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2054622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2054621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Joe-Masefield-\u2018The-Evil-Dead-Sound-Editor-Dies-at-92.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}