It’s time to leave Child’s Play behind. But we’re not giving the world of horror a rest just yet. Instead, we’re swerving right into another hugely influential franchise, starting with Sam Raimi’s 1981 classic The Evil Dead.
On this episode, Bri Azmoudeh of The Geeky Waffle Network‘s Killer Waffles podcast joins us to talk about Raimi’s cabin-in-the-woods splatter-fest. We’ll discuss the film’s shoestring budget, the emerge of Bruce Campbell as a movie star, and even the stage musical adaptation.
SYNOPSIS
Ashley “Ash” Williams (Bruce Campbell), his girlfriend Linda (Betsy Baker), his sister Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss), and friends Scott (Hal Delrich) and Shelly (Sarah York) hike into the woods to a cabin for a fun night away. There they find an old book, the Necronomicon, whose text reawakens the dead when it’s read aloud. The friends inadvertently release a flood of evil and must fight for their lives or become one of the evil dead. Ash watches his friends become possessed, and must make a difficult decision before daybreak to save his own life in this, the first of Sam Raimi’s trilogy.