Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 1 nomination
Richard DeManincor
- Scott
- (as Hal Delrich)
Theresa Tilly
- Shelly
- (as Sarah York)
Philip A. Gillis
- Fake Shemp
- (as Phil Gillis)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe cabin used as the film's set was also lodging for the 13 crew members, with several people sleeping in the same room. Living conditions were terrible, and the crew frequently argued. The cabin didn't have plumbing, so the actors went days without showering, and fell ill frequently in the freezing weather. By the end of production, they were burning furniture to stay warm.
- GoofsCharacters' hairstyles, as well as the amount of blood on them, change drastically from shot to shot - a result of shooting the film sporadically over several years. Note that seconds after Ash is completely covered in Linda's blood, he is clean again.
- Quotes
[repeated line]
Voice of Evil Force: Join us...
- Crazy creditsThe swing music from the old Victrola in the cabin's cellar plays during the closing credits, only to wind down and grind to a stop leaving the sound of the wind to accompany the rest of the credits. The final sound heard as the closing credits end is the fly buzzing - the first sound heard in the opening of the film.
- Alternate versionsWhen originally released to theaters in Britain, the UK censors removed 49 seconds of footage including an ankle stabbing, Shelley chewing off her own hand, an eye gouging, Shelley's body being dismembered, body blows with a poker and a wooden post, and shots of blood spurts, and it was this version that was released on video originally. Despite the cuts, it became one of the most notorious of the UK video nasties and was subject to many obscenity trials before being withdrawn on video in 1984, when mandatory video censorship was introduced to the UK. It was not until 1990 that the film surfaced on video in the UK again, due to wrangles between the distributors and the BBFC over how much footage should be cut from a legal video release. In the end, a further 1m 6s was removed, in addition to the previous theatrical version cuts. Most of the scenes depicting excessive gore were shortened or removed, with the tree rape scene being particularly targeted for cuts. The fully uncut version was finally released on DVD in 2001.
- ConnectionsEdited into Bhayam (2007)
- SoundtracksWord Back Here
(uncredited)
Written by Bruce Reynolds
Performed by Theresa Tilly and Richard DeManincor
Featured review
We've all taken a few days off with friends to go and explore, have a little bit of an adventure in the wild, be enthralled by natures brilliance and all that it brings, to take in its beauty, relax under the stars, good food and drink and company, a wonderful world all round: but it seems there is a darker side that we could never have imagined, that would make most of us scream and shout, where demonic beasts feast upon us, Hades fiends scrape pus from and into us, where the jaws of hell gape wide and open, where the terrors of the night become quite unspoken, taking your innocence and soul, dragging it down a deep black hole, a cadavers world that comes to life, to cause you unremitting strife, where blood and guts come to the fore, as they spill onto the crimson floor, parts are cut and sheared and shorn, you'll probably wish you'd never have been born - a world before Wi-Fi and CGI!
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- Also known as
- El Despertar del Diablo
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- Budget
- $350,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,400,000
- Gross worldwide
- $2,895,590
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1(original ratio, open matte)
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