10 Cool Facts About The Movie Evil Dead

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  1. Production Stopped Repeatedly to Raise Money

     

Sam Raimi admitted that it was an incredibly difficult shoot, but it wasn’t just physical exertion that troubled the crew, but that they were forced to stop filming for months at a time to raise more money. “We’d reach stretches where we’d run out of money and have to stop whatever we were doing and put on our suits and get our briefcases and cut our hair short and shave … and go around knocking on doors asking for more money,” Raimi recalled.

On initially raising money for the film, Raimi told the Incredibly Strange Film Show, “Tapert, Bruce Campbell, and myself … all dropped out of school. Then we worked as waiters, busboys, cab drivers. I was 18, Bruce was 19, and Robert was 22.”

Added Campbell: “We’d sit down and pretend we were businessmen. We thought it was part of the process.”

 

Campbell added:

“We had one guy give us money because he didn’t go to Vegas that year. He says ‘I usually take two grand and blow it in Vegas. Well, here’s my Vegas money.’ So he sends me 17 times his money. We were pretty happy about that.”