Date: 22nd November 2024 After teasing the announcement yesterday, Spooky Pinball today revealed their latest game based on the first two Evil Dead movies. The Evil Dead movie began as a low budget project co-created and directed by Sam Raimi in 1979 but not released until 1981. It didn’t get a wider theatrical release until 1983 but quickly gained a cult following, especially in the UK when it was released on VHS where it became the best selling video of the year, outselling The Shining. The lead actor is Bruce Campbell who plays the protagonist Ash Williams in the original The Evil Dead, as well as the sequels, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn and Army of Darkness. Bruce has recorded custom callouts for the Spooky Pinball game to go alongside the movie voice clips. In addition, professional voice actors Lara Sluyter and Scott Innes have recorded in-game callouts. The backglass artwork for Evil Dead Evil Dead is unlike Spooky Pinball’s recent designs in several ways. For a start, it features a widebody playfield which Spooky haven’t used since their Scooby-Doo Where Are You! game from early 2023. Then, the playfield design by ‘Spooky Luke’ and Corwin ‘Bug’ Emery is also only being used for a single title, unlike Halloween and Ultraman: Kaiju Battle, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Looney Tunes which used a single playfield design for two titles. The game will also only have a single Collector’s Edition priced at $9,999 plus tax and shipping, and be limited to 888 units. A separate animated topper for the game is available at $1,399. The topper for Spooky Pinball’s Evil Dead game Software for Evil Dead is by Ben Heck while Matt Montgomery created the music, Matt Riesterer from Back Alley Creations produced the sculpted models in the game, with new Spooky-exclusive signing Christopher Franchi designing all the artwork. Spooky Pinball say Evil Dead is their most feature-packed gamed to date with the most mechanisms. Here’s how they announced the game: Evil Dead Pinball is a wide body pinball machine set in the the world of the first two films of the iconic franchise, The Evil Dead, and Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn. The players will be guided along by Ashley Williams, voiced by Bruce Campbell, as they battle the relentless forces of evil. Ash’s now evil girlfriend Linda (voiced by Lara Sluyter) and Professor Knowby (Voiced by Scott Innes) will provide an additional level of Deadite trickery and direction to the game.Evil Dead Pinball is our most ambitious game to date, featuring the highest number of mechs in a Spooky Pinball machine yet. The game also features original clips, speech, and sfx from both films. Evil Dead Pinball is the 4th game by the designer duo “Spooky Luke” and Corwin “Bug” Emery. Many other Spooky crew members have returned for this release, including Ben Heck on the code, Matt Montgomery providing the score, Back Alley Creations, on the sculpts. This is also the first in a series of many Spooky Pinball games featuring a full art package by Christopher Franchi. It’s time to officially “Join Us” in what we can confidently say is our most beautiful, most loaded, most impressive world under glass yet. Spooky Pinball published this flyer image for the game: The flyer for Evil Dead The back of the flyer The company is releasing more information about their Evil Dead pinball throughout the day, starting with this trailer for the game. Here are some pictures from that trailer showing key playfield features: The front of the game The playfield The top half of the playfield The left drop target bank The moving hand target The rising standup target bank With the drops down, the cellar entrance is revealed The lower playfield Evil Ed – one of the pop-up sculpts A two-sided rotating model of Linda with good/evil sides The swinging porch seat ball lock The topper mounted on the backbox We now have some higher quality pictures of the game from Spooky Pinball showing more of the detail. The left side of the game The front of the game The right side of the game The entire playfield The porch swing ball lock mechanism The upper part of the playfield The cellar entrance rising standup targets with Evil Scotty on the left and Evil Ed on the right A view of the lower playfield window and hidden right flipper under the slingshot The lower playfield The moving Evil Ash hand The shotgun cartridges bash target The lift ramp Another view of the optional topper UPDATE Within a day-and-a-half, over 500 of the maximum 888 Evil Dead machines had been pre-ordered. Spooky Pinball’s announcement The Straight Down The Middle pinball show created a promotional video all about the making of the Evil Dead pinball. You can watch it here: Spooky Pinball also held a live Q&A session of Facebook. Bug hosts a live Q&A about the new Evil Dead pinball You can watch a recording of that here: https://fb.watch/w5zro1hMwN We’ll have more coverage of the launch of Evil Dead pinball in our regular monthly Pinball Industry News PINcast which will be available at the start of December. Check out our PINcast page for details of where and how you can listen to that and all our previous PINcasts, plus how to subscribe for free.
