The Evil Dead
“The ultimate experience in gruelling terror.”
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
Genres
Horror
Studio
New Line Cinema
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Evil Dead performed
Budget
$350,000
Worldwide Gross
$29.4M
Gross Profit
$29.1M
Return
84.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$6M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~44/56, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (45% of the domestic run, typical for Horror) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Ash
Bruce Campbell
Ash
Cheryl
Ellen Sandweiss
Cheryl
Scott
Richard DeManincor
Scott
Linda
Betsy Baker
Linda
Shelly
Theresa Tilly
Shelly
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Philip A. Gillis
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Dorothy Tapert
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Cheryl Klam
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Barbara Carey
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David Horton
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Wendall Thomas
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Don Long
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