Ellen Sandweiss

Ellen Sandweiss (born December 30, 1958) is an American B-movie actress. She has also performed in musical theatre as a dancer and pop singer, and in a one-woman show of Jewish music.^[1]

She gained notoriety in the 1981 horror cult-classic The Evil Dead, playing Bruce Campbell's sister Cheryl. Her ill-fated journey into the woods, subsequent brutal, sexual assault by the vines and transformation into a cackling, pasty-faced demon ranks as one of the most disturbing and goriest scenes in horror film history.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

• Within the Woods (1978)
• Shemp Eats The Moon? (1978)
• The Evil Dead (1981)
• Satan's Playground (2005)
• The Dread (2006)
• The Ocean (2007)
• My Name is Bruce (2007)
• Brutal Massacre: A Comedy (2007)
• Morrow Road (2007)
• The Occulterers (2009)^[2]

References

External links

• Ellen Sandweiss at the Internet Movie Database
• Ellen Sandweiss at Allmovie

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