Dark Entries Presents, Cinema in the bowl: THE EVIL DEAD - 1981 (Uncut version)

‘THEY GOT UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE GRAVE’

Five college students take time off to spend a peaceful vacation in a remote cabin. A book and audio tape are discovered, and its evil is found to be powerful once the incantations are read out loud. The friends find themselves helpless to stop the evil as it takes them one by one, with only one survivor left with the evil dead who desperately tries to fight to live until morning.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL

£6.50 PP

DOORS 7pm | FILM START TIME 8pm

PRE MOVIE MUSIC & HANGING OUT IN THE CAFE / BAR WITH A MENU OF DEMONIC DESSERTS & COCKTAILS

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THINGS TO NOTE

  • Dress warm it can get a bit chilly at night in the skatepark

  • Car park on site

  • 18 + Only for this one - it’s a video nasty.

  • Well behaved dogs welcome for movie snuggles.

  • Feel free to bring comfy things to sit on, or wrap yourselves in!

  • If you have any access needs let us know - a lot of the seating is on cushions on the floor.

FUN (ish) FACTS FROM IMDB

When 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cuts, it became one of the most notorious of the UK video nasties and was subject to many obscenity trials before being withdrawn on video in 1984, when mandatory video censorship was introduced to the UK.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.