This entry is a personally made 59 minute documentary, which chronicles my journey as a British Evil Dead superfan. How seeing it changed my life, sparking an interest in making my own short films and experimenting with gore effects, leading me onto a career in special effects in film & TV.

It covers the opening EvilDeadChainsaws.com & supplying Evil Dead: The Musical, creating BookOfTheDead.ws, making the Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection & Book Of The Dead DVDs, shooting footage at nine of The Evil Dead & Evil Dead II's locations, starting my huge Evil Dead collection, making a number of replica props, re-opening EvilDeadChainsaws.com & supplying Ash Vs Evil Dead, and much more. From 1992 to 2015, this is my journey so far.

When I started working on this documentary around the beginning of October 2015, it was only intended to be a few brief shots of my Evil Dead collection display, along with a bit of commentary over the top, which I shot myself for the Canadian Hail To The Deadites documentary. You can watch The Evil Dead - A Superfan's Odyssey in full via YouTube below.



Once I started editing my own footage to get an idea of how Steve (HTTD Director) could cut the material together, then and filming & adding in new bits here and there over a few weeks, it got way longer than could ever reasonably be included in the few minutes allocated in his project, as well as including some material which wouldn't entirely fit with that either. I thought that there would be people out there who would be interested to see a standalone documentary. Not just Evil Dead fans, but also people interested in special effects and low budget film-making in general. You can see some screenshots below. I shot over seven hours of entirely new footage on my Sony Handycam NEX-VG10 1080p camcorder (with interchangeable 35mm Canon FD lenses lenses), not including all my pre-existing video and photographic material, which was all edited down to the final documentary on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, running at 58 minutes. It contains a lot of material which regular viewers of BookOfTheDead.ws will not have seen before, along with elaborating & expanding on some things they will, all in 1080p.

If anyone is interested in a higher quality physical Blu-Ray version (with additional video material) get in contact. The main cover artwork was adapted from elements of Graham Humphrey's excellent 1987 Evil Dead II UK cinema Quad poster. I won't be selling this as I've used a few bits & pieces to which I don't own the copyright, but I'm sure a like-for-like trade can be worked out. If you're interested in any of my fanmade projects, you can contact me via email at , or through the Rob's Nostalgia Projects Facebook page. Check out & 'like' that Facebook page to see the latest in-progress updates to any current projects, and check out my Wants List to see if you can assist me with any future projects or upgrades.