16 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Evil Dead

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The Evil Dead franchise is the most splattery saga in horror history, and has unleashed countless quotable quips and hundreds of gallons of bloods on fervent fans over the past 40 years. Starring Bruce Campbell as perennial punching bag Ash Williams -- a department store clerk with a habit of getting caught up in apocalyptic battles with dastardly demons -- Evil Dead began as an inventive shoestring-budget independent film and steadily ascended into to wild-ass world of sequels, reboots, TV shows, comics, and video games.

With Evil Dead: The Game on its way, an over-the-top survival horror adventure, with Bruce Campbell voicing Ash, we thought we'd flip through a few flesh-bound, blood-inked pages of the Necronomicon and find some fun facts about the franchise that you might not know. Here are some goopy, gory tidbits about Sam Raimi's long-running blood carnival, which all started in a desolate cabin in the woods.

1981's The Evil Dead was a passion project of childhood friends Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, who grew up making Super 8 movies in Michigan. This first Evil Dead film, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, about a world of demons accidentally being opened, was filmed in true renegade-style, with a crew of 13 people in the remote thicket of Tennessee.

Though the sequel would have the budget to build a cabin exterior and a set for the interior, the first film had to use the real deal, with the entire crew also using the cabin to sleep, only adding to the hardship of the very rough shoot.

The cabin, which was mostly used as a hunting station when it wasn't, you know, being rented out as a Lovecraftian hellmouth, burned down a year later when some trespassing youths became partying youths, eventually achieving their final