evil dead's budget

[evildeadfreak]

$10,000 for this cutting-edge classic. It's all that Sam Raimi had at the time. Now he's making main streem movies like spider-man

[slasherman]

..one of the main reason for that was his team...he had a group of friends that worked for nothing.....

[evildeadfreak]

Originally posted by slasherman
..one of the main reason for that was his team...he had a group of friends that worked for nothing.....

Yea, He had a group of his teen age friends and put somthing like the goriest movie he could think of.

...and the fact that he's a cinematic genious - you can tell Evil Dead is going to be amazing based on the opening title sequence.

[GOODandEVIL666]

its funny to see all these sweet movies that used to be low budge are now some of the biggest and well know like evil dead my favorite and nightmare on elm street was also low budge when made

[bwind22]

Originally posted by GOODandEVIL666
its funny to see all these sweet movies that used to be low budge are now some of the biggest and well know like evil dead my favorite and nightmare on elm street was also low budge when made

Nightmare on Elm St. was nowhere near as low a budget as Evil Dead. NOES was a studio released Hollywood product.

Now, Halloween, Blair Witch or Night of the Living Dead... Those might have been in the same budget ballpark (Even though, as far as I know, all 3 were more expensive too.), but not Nightmare on Elm St...

[sabersword]

There is a book out called the Evil Dead companion. It tells the reader all about how the movies were made budgit everything.

[RavageRitual]

Originally posted by bedlam23
I think evil dead 2 is really the movie the he wanted to make. It had ten times the budget and was basicly a better version of the first film. I love them both and I've been hearing chatter on here about a remake. If they remake it without Bruce and Sam it will likely blow.

WOW, everything I was going to reply to this thread with, you just said for me. Thanks

[MisterSadistro]

Hate to break the bubble here, but the budget for 'Evil Dead' was actually $90,000 (and this was also in 1979 where it would go much farther than today). I got 'The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi' for Christmas and that was the first chapter I read. However, it does help to have like minded lunatics in your cast and crew to get a film done when your budget is slim to none :D
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