It's as much a part of Halloween in metro Detroit as Devil's Night, M&M's and Pontiac's Erebus Haunted Attraction.

"The Evil Dead," the cult horror movie classic directed by a very young Sam Raimi (the "Spider-Man" franchise) returns to the Redford Theater on Friday, Oct. 31, for a Halloween night screening at 8 p.m. The film had its first public showing at the Redford on Oct. 15, 1981, under its original title: "Book of the Dead."

Raimi was just 21 when he shot the movie with actor Bruce Campbell, then 22, in rural Tennessee in the fall of 1980. The two had been friends since their days at Wylie E. Groves High School in Beverly Hills.

The plot, for the uninitiated, centers on five college students who take a vacation at an isolated cabin in the woods, where they find an audiotape that,

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