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'Evil Dead: The Game' gets the band back together for a modern horror makeover

The team behind the new video game talks about adapting the sounds and music for this cult-classic horror film for a new audience.
The video game is the latest iteration of the cult classic Evil Dead franchise.

We didn't know it at the time, but the arrival of the horror film The Evil Dead back in the early 1980s was the start of something big.

The movie had a tiny budget, an over-the-top gory style, and, perhaps most surprisingly, a twisted sense of humor.

Author Stephen King called it, "The most ferociously original horror movie of 1982."

With each subsequent release in the series,

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