ET is looking back at EvilDead 40 years later.
If you are using ad-blocking software, please disable it and reload the page.For Tapert, he gave Raimi credit for applying his auteur flair to the trademark scares. “There are things [in] that are usually cliches, [but they] work not as the cliche is supposed to work,” the producer explained. “You expect something to jump out and it doesn't. You don't expect it to, then it does. They're all the cliches, but they're working for and against each other. Backwards and forwards.
Years after his childhood camping trips, Raimi found himself back in the woods and, once again, a little startled -- only this time his imagination took a backseat to some real-life experiences he and theteam encountered while shooting on location in Tennessee. The cast and crew actually stayed in the cabin they filmed in for the movie, where curious residents would make themselves known in various horror movie-like scenarios.
The director also witnessed locals observing the film shoot from the surrounding rural area. “You'd look up and there on this ridge, there'd be a little mountain man standing there watching you. And it was just kind of a strange experience to be watched like that constantly and not really be aware of it all the time,” Raimi said.Meanwhile, Campbell’s encounters were a little more up close and personal.
While the filmmakers had even been warned about the cabin’s supernatural reputation leading up to the shoot, nothing that could be considered otherworldly transpired until the shoot had already wrapped.“The Tennessee Film Commission told us that the cabin we had been shooting in was haunted. And so we said, ‘Great,’” Raimi explained. “And then after we left the place, it was hit by a bolt of lightning and burned to the ground.
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