 It's been a number of years since I began excavating the ruins of Kandah with a group of my colleagues. Now my wife and I have retreated to a small cabin in the solitude of these mountains. Here I continued my research undisturbed by the myriad distractions of modern civilization and far from the groves of Akkadim. Hi guys and welcome back to Comic NTV. We're all geek culture collides. Today we're going to be taking a look at the limited edition, the Evil Dead, the Book of the Dead DVD. As you can see this is my wife's DVD. She bought this before we even met. But I really liked it. She's the one who introduced me to the Evil Dead. I had heard a lot about it for quite a while before this, before she introduced me to it, but I never got around to watching it. One week I was home sick with the flu. Well it was either the flu or bronchitis, something like that. And she had all three DVDs. We decided to watch them back to back. And I had to have to say that was one of the best decisions I had made. See here it comes in a clear packaging, yellow cardboard up top. The Evil Dead, the Book of the Dead features widescreen presentation enhanced for 16 by 9 TVs. Audio commentary with writer and director Sam Raimi and producer Robert Tabard. Audio commentary with star Bruce Campbell behind the scenes footage and outtakes. Finalysis, an all new 26 minute documentary by Bruce Campbell. Discovering Evil Dead, an all new feature at Tracing the Film's History, Humble Beginnings to Legendary Status. Theatrical trailer, TV spot, poster, and still gallery. Talent bios, languages, English and French. Anchor Bay Entertainment, Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment and Renaissance Pictures. This movie, I had to watch it shortly, like right before I started filming. I have to watch it right before I start filming any of my short films, my short horror films. It's not for everybody by any means, but if you're a short horror film maker, and you don't have a lot of money to work with, you don't have a lot of experience, study this movie. There are a lot of problems with it, but there's a lot of good about it too. So anyway, as you can see here, we have the Necronomicon cover. The cover is made out of like a rubber ear on the back, face on the front. Not a perfect likeness of the Necronomicon, but it gets the picture crossed. Not bad. Open it up. The Evil Dead booklet, Bringing the Dead Home for Dinner. A History of the Evil Dead in Your Home by Michael Felscher. What more can be said about the Evil Dead? It is some two decades after the film's original premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, and the world has changed quite a bit. Back then, this low-budget feature film was just another cheapy horror flick, out to rake in a few bucks, then retire to the sea of forgotten drive-in sludge. Of course, it didn't exactly turn out like that, did it? No. In reality, the Evil Dead premiered to feverishly enthusiastic response, and surprisingly strong critical reception snagged a nifty endorsement from some guy named Stephen King, and went on to become one of the most influential and revered cult films for the past 20 years. Now, how the hell did that happen? Well, you might already know the first part. The tales of the flick's shoestring production have been well documented in years past. Bruce Campbell, now a full-fledged cult industry unto himself, has been spinning stories and anecdotes about it for years, at conventions and recently devoted a huge chunk of his autobiography to the grueling nature of the Evil Dead's production. Crew member Josh Becker detailed his experiences in very entertaining detail on his website. Cold from his journal entries made during the shoot with Sam Raimi has given countless interviews on the subject, and must forever deal with the fact that his name will always be listed in print as Sam the Evil Dead Raimi. Well, at least until Spider-Man comes out. This was released during production of the Spider-Man film, the 2000 Spider-Man film. A 2000, what was it, 2001, 2002 somewhere on there? I'm not going to go over, go through the entire booklet and read everything for it, but I'll just kind of flip through, show you what you're getting. Some nice pictures here, young Sam Raimi. This really is a great film to watch if you're a budding filmmaker who's trying to create something but doesn't really know how to, doesn't really have the experience. Watch this, study this film. This picture of Bruce Campbell covered in blood. And there's the back. Evil Dead, The Book of the Dead. A couple blank pages there. Introduction. Legend has it it was written by the Dark Ones. Necronomicon Ex Mortis, roughly translated Book of the Dead. Way back in 1979 I created The Book of the Dead, The Dagger of the Dead, Makeup and Special Effects Mayhem for Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead. For all of us working on the film it was a grueling labor of love. We thought that if our modest horror movie played in a couple of drive-ins down south we'd have made our mark. Evil Dead, it appears has mutated beyond all expected success like the twitching body parts of the possessed dismembered it will not die. Not surprisingly Evil Dead is loved by people of humor, taste, intelligence and creativity. I know because I've met a world full of them. As an artist I can't express how much the Evil Dead's fans enthusiastic response means to me. It's a genuine bonafide thrill to share some secrets and magic in this special presentation of The Evil Dead. As much as I know you will enjoy the film and features. I think I have a clue to its success. Therefore I want to encourage the artists, writers, filmmakers and dreamers out there to trust in yourselves. Use your creative skills and inspirations and bring your efforts to the world. In that spirit I present to you The Book of the Dead, Tom Sullivan. Dedicated to the... I can't really make that up guys. I'm sure if I had some time to study it I could figure it out. Book of the Dead sculpted and pages artwork created by Tom Sullivan copyright 2002. Nice little image there of snake, skull, bird, some skeletons. Evil! I like what they're going for with this. But it's really pretty difficult to make out and read at a glance you know. Some deadites, images of deadites there. I don't think we actually got a name for them though until Army of Darkness. I could be wrong but I don't think the deadites were actually called deadites in the films until Army of Darkness. Got a map here. Picture an eyeball. A little nerve endings and everything coming out of it. Image of the front of The Book of the Dead. Some blank pages. Evil Dead on the web. Cast and crew. Sam Raimi. Sublime Sam. Bruce Campbell. Bruce Campbell online. BruceCampbell.com. I'm sure some of these websites are probably defunct now because it's been so long. They may have kept them up in the age of Facebook and Twitter and all that. Personal websites have become a thing of the past. Everything you ever hoped to find on those websites can now be seen on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. But as you can see here we got a little glued in picture of the woman deadite from the first film. I'm not sure why they did that though. It looks like it. That's probably it. There we go. Put that in there just like that. Keep it safe. Chapter selection. List of chapters here. The DVD. Image of Bruce Campbell on the front. Ash. Groovy. Very nice. Anchor Bay Entertainment.com. Once again guys I really like this movie. I have to watch it before I film any of my short horror films along with whatever style I'm trying to go for as well. With certain film. With my last film Bloody Mary. I watched this and then I watched a ton of Hitchcock because that's the style I was wanting to go for. So if you want to be a filmmaker. If you want to even just create short YouTube films. Horror films whatever. Watch this. Study it. It's not really one to assume they're right. Flush. That might be why my wife had it. But watch this. Study it. Not the best movie. But definitely one to watch. Other movies to watch if you're budding horror filmmaker. The first Halloween film. The original. Friday the 13th. One and two. Any of the others are. Well one two and. I'd say. Four and five. The 3D one. I wouldn't suggest. But one two four and five are great for. Horror film creators. Who are just starting out to study. Psycho. Poltergeist. The classics guys the classics. It shouldn't be about Gore. It should be about building the suspense. Now the difference with Evil Dead. Is that yes there was Gore. It had the element of the exorcist had. That style of makeup. The real creepy real disgusting. Makeup. It had it had Gore. But it was done in a fashion where it was. So obviously fake the blood was so obviously. Super bright red you could tell it wasn't real blood. It didn't look like real blood. And that's the. That's what Sam Raimi was going for. And Bruce Campbell's portrayal of ash. It was over the top. He he was a background character at first. He blended in. Until he was the last one alive. That. Is great acting. If you're going to be the lone survivor of a film. You shouldn't stand out. Until the very end. You need to blend in. And that. I give it up to Bruce Campbell's acting for. I also kind of give it up to. The writing. For making Bruce Campbell. Blend in with all the other characters until the right moment. You know most movies nowadays. You know who's going to be the survivor. Even in the 80s and 70s. With the slasher films you knew. Which character was going to be the lone survivor. With evil dead. You weren't quite sure until he survived. Until the very end. You weren't sure if anyone was going to survive really. But Sam Raimi pulled it off. And I like that about this film. I love that about this film. I would love to aspire to. Create something as masterful as this film. As I said it wasn't a perfect film. It was a really. Amazing. Low budget first film. I'm sure I don't think it was his first film. But it was. An early film. So anyway guys there you have it. The limited edition. Evil Dead. The book of the dead. DVD special edition. Original copyright in 1982. But I'm not seeing. This releases copyright. Maybe it's inside. I'd really like to be able to tell you guys. Exactly. What year this came out. So that if you're looking for it. You will have an easier chance. 2002. Was the. Package design copyright. Came out. Around the same time as. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. Hope you enjoyed this review guys. Go out. Pick you up a copy of the limited edition. Evil Dead. The book of the dead. I'm Shannon for Come Again TV. Take care.