265 mins |
Rated
R16 (Graphic violence & offensive language)
Cult legend Bruce Campbell stars as Ash Williams, the incompetent, mid-20's employee of S-Mart (Shop smart. Shop S-Mart!) whose trip away with his friends and girlfriend Linda turns into a 'deadite' disaster when they stumble across the Book of the Dead, unleashing evil spirits which possess the living. Ash's journey takes him from zero to hero as he faces evil spirits, possessed girlfriends and deadite incarnations of himself through a battle to the ends of the Earth and back.
Join Ash and his trusty Boomstick and watch original EVIL DEAD trilogy from mastermind director Sam Raimi on the big screen at Academy! Groovy.
15 minute intermission between films.
THE EVIL DEAD (1981)
85 mins
'Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. Raimi’s seminal horror made a cult icon of Bruce Campbell and turned its director into hot property. Much imitated, but never bettered, The Evil Dead was the birth of an independently-spirited, viscerally- minded new wave in low budget horror cinema.'
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EVIL DEAD II (1987)
84 mins
'The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.'
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ARMY OF DARKNESS (1993)
96 mins
'Ash (Bruce Campbell) finds himself trapped in medieval times. He must quest for the Necronomicon, a book of evil which can return him to his time. Unfortunately, he releases the evil trapped inside the book and unleashes an army of the dead.'
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Cult legend Bruce Campbell stars as Ash Williams, the incompetent, mid-20's employee of S-Mart (Shop smart. Shop S-Mart!) whose trip away with his friends and girlfriend Linda turns into a 'deadite' disaster when they stumble across the Book of the Dead, unleashing evil spirits which possess the living. Ash's journey takes him from zero to hero as he faces evil spirits, possessed girlfriends and deadite incarnations of himself through a battle to the ends of the Earth and back.
Join Ash and his trusty Boomstick and watch original EVIL DEAD trilogy from mastermind director Sam Raimi on the big screen at Academy! Groovy.
15 minute intermission between films.
THE EVIL DEAD (1981)
85 mins
'Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. Raimi’s seminal horror made a cult icon of Bruce Campbell and turned its director into hot property. Much imitated, but never bettered, The Evil Dead was the birth of an independently-spirited, viscerally- minded new wave in low budget horror cinema.'
-
EVIL DEAD II (1987)
84 mins
'The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.'
-
ARMY OF DARKNESS (1993)
96 mins
'Ash (Bruce Campbell) finds himself trapped in medieval times. He must quest for the Necronomicon, a book of evil which can return him to his time. Unfortunately, he releases the evil trapped inside the book and unleashes an army of the dead.'