Anchor Bay Entertainment has revealed the full details for the Blu-ray release of Sam Raimi's
The Evil Dead, which as previously reported will come out on August 31. The BD will include not one, but two new HD transfers (one in 1.85:1 and the other in the original, director-composed 1.33:1), personally supervised by Raimi, accompanied by a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio track.
Most of the bonus features, released on previous DVD editions, will once again be available on a special, limited edition DVD included with the Blu-ray.
Special features include:
- On the Blu-ray:
- All-new audio commentary with writer/director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Bruce Campbell
- On the special-features DVD:
- One By One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead
- The Evil Dead: Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor
- The Ladies Of The Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell
- Book of The Dead: The Other Pages
- Discovering The Evil Dead
- Unconventional
- At The Drive-In