The Evil Dead (1981) w/ Evildead & Body Count

About this episode

Juan Garcia of Evildead discusses the impact and history of the horror classic 'The Evil Dead'.

Today we have Juan Garcia of the US thrash belters Evildead chatting with us about a bloody classic in every sense of the word. Somehow this ended up in the second tier of the video nasties debacle, this was the section may have been prosecuted but were subsequently dropped from the naughty list after a series of acquittals. What are we like?

People in this episode

Guest: Juan Garcia

Topics covered

• horror films
• video nasties
• thrash metal
• film history
• classic cinema

Keywords

• Evil Dead
• Juan Garcia
• horror
• video nasties
• thrash metal
• film review
• classic horror

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Evildead

Books & works: The Evil Dead

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