The MFF vs The Evil Dead

EVIL DEAD TRIVIA
* The movie was filmed in Morristown, Tennesseee off Kidwells Ridge Road, and was screened at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
* Shooting began on November 14, 1979. The original cast left on schedule after six weeks, and the remainder of the filming used family and friends dressed like the actors for rear or side shots. This became known as "shemping"; the person participating is known as a "Fake shemp", paying homage to the Three Stooges.
* In order to finance the film, Raimi made a short film entitled Within the Woods, which starred the Bruce Campbell and Ellen Sandweiss and had scenes that would later be redone for this film, as well as a shot that would be used in Evil Dead II.
* The two fishermen on the side of the road at the beginning are writer / director Sam Raimi and producer Robert Tapert. In the film, Professor Knoby's recorded recitation of the Book of the Dead is actually a distortion of the words, "Sam and Rob are the hikers down the road." Tapert can also be seen when the car enters the wooden bridge, hiding in the shrubbery to the right.
* Terminology used in reference to the demonic book shows that Raimi's version of the notorious faux-occult book is influenced by H.P. Lovecraft's work.
* The cabin used for filming in Tennessee had no basement, so a trap door was cut in the floor, and a five foot hole was dug beneath it. The actors pretended to descend into the basement by squatting down lower and lower. The scenes in the basement were filmed in Marshall, Michigan, months later.
* At one point in early January, 1980, filming was interrupted by a shortage of Karo syrup, red food coloring and marshmallows, the components of the film's guts. All of the stores in a 20 mile radius had been bought out of these ingredients.
* Footage from the film's climax was used in the opening sequence of Adam Curtis's The Power of Nightmares.
* In the scene when Ash first finds the Necronomicon, a torn poster of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes can be seen in the background. In response, a scene from Evil Dead is visible on a television screen in Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street. An Evil Dead poster can also be seen in a closet containing a chainsaw in the horror film Dead & Breakfast.
* To make Campbell's terrified screams sound more realistic, he was poked off-camera with a sharp stick to make him scream.
* In the original shooting script, Ash survives and walks off into the dawning day. The film crew objected strenuously to the notion of a survivor, not believing Sam could even consider a "happy" ending. The ending of the film was conceived in a breakfast brainstorming session.
* The song "Dead By Dawn" by American death metal group Deicide is an homage to the film series.
* Numerous shots in the film, in which the action is seen from the point of view of an unseen demonic force, are filmed with a two-cameraman method which Campbell refers to as a "shakey-cam." A camera is attached by a bolt to a two-by-four with bicycle handles on either side, with one cameraman hodling onto either handle and maneuvering the camera over obstacles in its path. Raimi has continued to use this method in other movies, including the remainder of the Evil Dead trilogy.