Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead 2 (2011)
A groovy documentary on a groovy movie
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 38M
Director : Michael Felsher
Synopsis
A documentary about the making of Evil Dead 2.
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