Swifty
doesn't negotiate with terriers
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Someone over on Deadites has just had a bit of a grumble that Fede Alvarez pretended that the woods he used in his Evil Dead remake were haunted so we can't trust anything he says .. Fede was just continuing a joke tradition in Evil Dead production (or his woods were actually haunted) .. my response explains this fun tradition:
For anyone reading who doesn't already know this fun bullshit folklore, Sam Raimi created a great fake ghost story to explain why the cabin from the original film burned down not long after filming ..
The 'truth' is in fact that some "local yahoos" burned it down not long after The Evil Dead wrapped ..
Sam's story instead was that the original cabin was built in the late 1800's. When the builder was placing the last brick on the top of the chimney, he was struck by lightning and killed which is/was why the chimney was always missing that last brick. After that, a young girl lived in the cabin with her grandparents. One dark and stormy night she went into their bedroom and found them both dead of natural causes .. she ran out into the woods and was rescued by some locals. Eventually she was sectioned as a mental health patient nearby, but, as an old woman and every time there was a dark and stormy night, she'd return to the woods and the cabin area looking for her dead Grandparents. Sam went as far as saying he'd been told that she might turn up during The Evil Dead shoot.
This is why Sam's 'The Boss'
... haunted Evil Dead location stories are nothing new, Fede was just copying Sam's original stunt ..
For anyone reading who doesn't already know this fun bullshit folklore, Sam Raimi created a great fake ghost story to explain why the cabin from the original film burned down not long after filming ..
The 'truth' is in fact that some "local yahoos" burned it down not long after The Evil Dead wrapped ..
Sam's story instead was that the original cabin was built in the late 1800's. When the builder was placing the last brick on the top of the chimney, he was struck by lightning and killed which is/was why the chimney was always missing that last brick. After that, a young girl lived in the cabin with her grandparents. One dark and stormy night she went into their bedroom and found them both dead of natural causes .. she ran out into the woods and was rescued by some locals. Eventually she was sectioned as a mental health patient nearby, but, as an old woman and every time there was a dark and stormy night, she'd return to the woods and the cabin area looking for her dead Grandparents. Sam went as far as saying he'd been told that she might turn up during The Evil Dead shoot.
This is why Sam's 'The Boss'
... haunted Evil Dead location stories are nothing new, Fede was just copying Sam's original stunt ..
.. 
