A cult classic horror film franchise from the 1980s has risen from the dead – reincarnated as a comedy musical at Limelight Theatre.

Written by George Reinblatt and directed by Kieran Ridgway, the Australian premiere of Evil Dead: The Musical is a re-telling of the first two films with five college students excited to spend a weekend in the woods in a seemingly abandoned cabin.

But after stumbling upon The Book of the Dead, they accidentally unleash a demonic terror and find themselves face-to-face with untold evil forces…