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(1981)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated NC-17 for substantial graphic horror violence and gore
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A woman's breasts are seen as she is taking off her shirt for about 10 seconds.
  • A woman is sexually assaulted by a possessed tree. We see branches tear at her clothes (her breasts briefly shown), pull her legs apart, and a branch go up between her legs. She Cries and Moans (in pain) for a few seconds then she breaks free and escapes.

Violence & Gore

  • Although there is gore, the effects are goofy, over-the-top, and even dated by current standards.
  • In one scene, a character gouges out another character's eyeballs with his thumbs.
  • Very violent and gory.
  • 11+ movie.
  • There are several instances of possessed being picking up and throwing other characters at objects or otherwise hitting them and abusing them.
  • A possessed woman stabs another woman in the ankle with a pencil, and thick blood oozes out of the wound as she screams in pain.
  • A man forces a woman into a cellar and hits her in the face with the handle of an axe to knock her out.
  • A possessed woman scratches the side of a man's face with her fingernail, blood pours out of the wound.
  • A possessed woman falls into a lit fireplace and her face is smoldering and bleeding when she gets out.
  • A woman bites off her own hand, you see blood gush while she is chewing and you hear crunching of the bone while a man watches in horror. When she is finished she screams in pain and blood squirts and spews from the bloody stump.
  • A possessed woman slashes a man with a voodoo knife and licks the blood off of it.
  • In more than one instance, a man stabs a woman in the back with a voodoo knife, we see blood pour out the head of the knife. The woman then falls onto her back, driving the knife in further. When the woman is stabbed she spits out blood and a white substance. The same liquids pour out of all of her wounds.
  • A man chops up a woman with an axe, you see blood splash off the axe each time he draws back and the axe making contact with and chopping off the woman's hand and foot. You then see the woman's bloody, severed body parts twitching on the ground.
  • A possessed woman is shot in the head with a shotgun. Blood splurts out of the wound.
  • A man hits a possessed woman in the head and face multiple times as she mocks him.
  • A woman grabs a man's leg and scratches it untill we see bone, blood is pouring out of the wound while she does it.
  • A woman jumps into the air and a man whacks her head off with a shovel. You see the body on top of the man still grabbing at him and blood spews and sprays in his face while the blood- splattered head comes alive.
  • As a man is trapped in a cellar, the walls start oozing blood; a water pipe breaks and starts spewing blood all over the man. A light-bulb fills with blood pouring from the socket, turning the room red.
  • It is implied that a man was attacked by the woods, we see his face badly cut and skin peeled off of it. He is covered with blood, and is still bleeding. Blood pours out of his mouth.
  • A man shoots a woman in the head and neck, we see blood spurt from the wounds.
  • A man grabs another man's leg and begins to bite into it, we see blood start to trickle out of the wound.
  • A woman hits a man in the back with the blunt side of a fire poker.
  • In a stop-motion sequence, the demons possessed bodies begin to decompose with lots of blood and gore as their bodies disintegrate. Their hair falls out, their flesh turns to goo, and blood pours everywhere. One of the bodies falls on the ground face first, and the head explodes covering a man completely in blood and chunks of brain.
  • Giant hands rip apart two demonic possessed bodies, throwing their insides everywhere. Blood explodes onto another man.
  • A mans head explodes. Blood sprays another man like a fire hose and brain matter flies all over the place.
  • The main character pushes his thumbs into the eyes of a possessed man and a large amount of very thick blood oozes out. He then pulls a piece of wood out and a large stream of blood shoots out like a fountain.
  • Several characters (noteably the protagonist) become absolutely covered in blood from head to toe.

Profanity

  • Some uses of "Shit"
  • No f words
  • Several uses of "Jesus Christ"
  • Only one use of "Bastard"
  • One use of "Oh, god", "Oh my god" and three uses of "For god's sake"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some characters smoke and drink wine.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Although alot of the effects are dated, The Evil Dead is still EXTREMELY bloody and graphic.
  • Although very gory, the film has a lot of black comedy and it is also unintentionally funny sometimes
  • This movie has a very dark aesthetic, and the camera's work can be disturbing for some viewers

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Every single character dies in a gory way.

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