The Next Time You Watch THE EVIL DEAD:

What are they smoking when they play the tape?

Who does not smoke?

Who get taken first?

Could it be a clue?  Is this how the book was wrote to keep the EVIL at bay?   

TRIVIA -- In THE EVIL DEAD on the first take of that scene
               they smoked real pot.  Who rolled the joint and 
               who's pot was it?