| Release Date | 15 October 1981 |
| Tagline | Can They Be Stopped? |
| Genre | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller |
| Country | USA |
| Filming Locations | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Language | English |
| Sound Mix | Mono |
| Color | Color |
| Film Type | Feature |
| Film Class | Haunted House Film, Supernatural Horror |
| Mood | Blood and Gore |
| Themes | Curses and Spells, Demonic Possession, Nightmare Vacations, Zombies |
| Tones | Campy, Eerie, Quirky, Madcap, Creepy, Frantic, Tense |
| Tags | Atrocity, Book, Cabin, Cellar, Chainsaw, College Student, Demon, Demonic Possession, Dismemberment, Gateway To Hell, Invocation, Monster, Rampage, Satanic, Satanism, Slasher, Tree, Weekend, Woods [place] |
The Evil Dead (also known as: Evil Dead, The Book of the Dead, Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead and The Evil Dead, the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Horror) is a 1981 horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, and Betsy Baker. The film is a story of five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a wooded area. Their vacation becomes gruesome when they find an audiotape that releases evil spirits.