The ultimate experience in gruelling terror.
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
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- Body horror
- Graphic violence
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Character
Intimate, bleak, unpretentious and plot-driven.
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
22 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Prestige Hunters.
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Cast
- Bruce CampbellAsh
- Ellen SandweissCheryl
- Richard DeManincorScott
- Betsy BakerLinda
- Theresa TillyShelly
- Philip A. GillisFake Shemp
- Dorothy TapertFake Shemp
- Cheryl KlamFake Shemp
- Barbara CareyFake Shemp
- David HortonFake Shemp
Crew
- Sam RaimiDirector
- Sam RaimiWriter
- Tim PhiloDirector of Photography
- Joseph LoDucaOriginal Music Composer
- Edna Ruth PaulEditor
- Robert TapertProducer
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Pairings
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 198462% alikeBoth unpretentious, plot-driven, overwhelming; this one is more epic.
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 196961% alikeBoth bleak, earnest, overwhelming.
The Hitcher 198660% alikeBoth bleak, unpretentious, earnest.
Outpost 200859% alikeBoth intimate, unpretentious, bleak.
Fatal Attraction 198759% alikeBoth earnest, grave, unpretentious.
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