Trivia for
Evil Dead, The (1982)

• Sam Raimi originally wanted to title this film "Book of the Dead," but producer Irvin Shapiro changed the title to "The Evil Dead" for fear that kids would be turned off seeing a movie with a literary reference.
  
  
• After completing principal photography in the winter of 1979-1980, most of the actors left the production. However, there was still much of the film to be completed. Most of the second half of the film features Bruce Campbell (I) and various stand-ins (or "shemps") to replace the actors who left.
  
  
• Filmed in a real-life abandoned cabin.
  
  
• Creamed corn dyed green was used as zombie guts.
  
  
• There is a ripped poster of _Hills Have Eyes, The (1978)_ visible. See also: _Hills Have Eyes, The (1978)_ , _Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)_ .
  
  
• Director Sam Raimi and star Bruce Campbell (I) were friends from high-school, where they made many super-8 films together. They would often collaborate with Sam's brother Ted Raimi. Campbell became the "actor" of the group, as "he was the one that girls wanted to look at."
  
  
• Some of the book translates as "Sam and Rob are the hitchhikers on the road", a reference to Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert playing the two men on the side of the road at the beginning of the film.
  
  
• The voice of the professor on the tape recording is that of American Movie Classics host Bob Dorian.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] [3-stooges]
  
  
• Producer Rob Tapert can be seen hiding in the bushes near the bridge at the beginning of the film.
  
  
• As the car is driving up to the cabin at the beginning of the movie, instead of Teresa Seyferth, it's Sam Raimi you see from "Shelly's" window.
  
  
• The cabin used for filming The Evil Dead was located in Morristown, TN. The cabin mysteriously burned down years later.
  
  
• The cabin did not actually have a cellar. The cellar scenes were filmed in Raimi's garage. For the scene where the students descend into the cellar, a hole was cut into the floor, a shallow hole was dug, and a ladder was placed into the pit.
  
  
• In the opening scenes, the two men at the side of the road who wave. Are producer Rob Tapert and Director Sam Raimi
  
  
• On the tape, in which the daemon resurrection passages are read aloud. The words are in a form of Arabic, which actually mean "Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi are the men on the side of the road".
  
  
• The first opening sequence of the evil moving over the pond, is actually Bruce Campbell pushing Sam Raimi in a dingy whilst he films the shot.
  
  
• Ash's last name is never mentioned throughout the entire Evil Dead trilogy, though Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell did toy around with calling him "Ashley J Williams" and "Ash Holt," the latter revealing how Sam viewed the character...
  
  
• Was one of the first films to be labeled as a "Video Nasty" in England.
  
  
• The scream of Bruce Campbell at the end of the movie is genuine. Sam Raimi actually crashed into Bruce with the bike he used to create the "Evil Camera" effect.
  
  

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