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Evil Dead Returning to Theaters...to Build Buzz for Evil Dead 4 ? Friday November 6, 2009 © New Line Perhaps buoyed by the success of midnight screenings of Paranormal Activity , the creators of the gory 1981 cult classic The Evil Dead will be bringing the film back to theaters in 2010.

Sam Raimi is best known as the man behind the "Spiderman" franchise, but he's also widely regarded as a master of the macabre and of horror.

Don't ask me why. But the first gift my wife ever received from me was a DVD titled "Evil Dead 2," the mid 80s cult comedy horror flick directed by Sam Raimi.

"Paranormal Activity," you'd think it was the first low-budget horror film that ever managed to get a rise out of audiences.

Over the last 20 years cinema has changed significantly with regards to the horror genre.

Though he got his start making two over-the-top cult horror film favorites - "The Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn" - director Sam Raimi subsequently diversified into.... Though he got his start making two over-the-top cult horror film favorites - "The Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn" - director Sam Raimi subsequently diversified ...

The Ringwald's staging of "Evil Dead: The Musical" comes with an important distinction: It's playing just a stone's throw from the building where the "Evil Dead" filmmakers once had their production offices.

Emily Kester and TJ Austin are in UNCGa s production of Evil Dead. Credit: Chris English/News & Record Want to go? What: "Evil Dead: The Musical" When: 7 and 10 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Oct.

It's only mid-October and already you're stuck in a Halloween DVD rut, resigned to "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and movies that star silent serial killer Michael Myers.

The long anticipated Spike Jonze-Dave Eggers adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theaters this weekend, and Sam Raimi's latest film Drag Me to Hell is newly out on DVD and Blu-Ray. I could be wrong, but I suspect the audiences for these two films overlap more than you might expect.

Italian flick 'Suspiria' is among the films being screened. 25 Hour Horror Feast After 80 years, The Little Theatre is trying something new.

You loved the movie, what about the DVD? Find out as we examine the extras on this week's best DVDs.

Set your Wednesdays to "Scare" for not one but two rarely seen cult classics of the 1980s on the big screen at the Colony Theatre.

After a side trip into action territory with Doomsday and the upcoming Centurion , Descent director Neil Marshall is returning to full-blooded horror, with a little help from Sam Raimi .

More than any other film genre, horror has thrived - and sometimes shriveled - with the onslaught of sequels.

Director Sam Raimi originally forged a name for himself as a director of horror films - specifically the iconic Evil Dead series that began with his directorial debut The Evil Dead back in 1981.

American director Sam Raimi, shown May 22, is to produce spooky films for families, beginning with the story of a substitute teacher who is an alien.

What: 'Evil Dead: The Musical' When: 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 6 p.m. Sundays .

The frightening, never-before-seen unrated director's cut was deemed too terrifying for theaters is included, as well as the theatrical version of the film.

Recommended I've mentioned it before, but one of the turning points in the movie-loving part of my life was Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 greatest cult classics .