Due to their possession of an ancient mystic book, four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic and find themselves pitched into a world of evil that overlaps their own. The film was originally made in 1967 by Dennis Muren as The Equinox: Journey into the Supernatural. Jack Woods was hired to shoot additional footage and expand on Muren's work.
Practical Effects
Hand-animated demons that somehow out-creep modern CGI.
Direction
Teenage Dennis Muren's precocious eye for composition.
Director
Jack Woods
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raimi, Tapert and Campbell studied this frame-by-frame before making Evil Dead — the Necronomicon, the cabin, the demonic POV shots, all here first.
Dennis Muren later won nine Oscars for ILM; this was his college thesis. Jack Woods' added footage explains why the tone whiplashes between earnest dread and goofy dubbing.
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