Evil Dead 2's Most Common Misconception Explained By Star Bruce Campbell

In Sam Raimi's 1981 splatter flick "The Evil Dead," a group of five Detroit college kids trek out to a remote cabin in the woods of Tennessee for a quiet vacation. In the basement of the cabin, they find a mysterious reel-to-reel tape recorder left behind by the previous tenant. When they play it, they hear a professor reciting a dark spell from an evil grimoire, summoning demons from the nether-realms. The tape recorder causes the demons to return, and the bulk of the film is the college kids fighting off — unsuccessfully — the wicked Deadites from beyond. The final survivor of "The Evil Dead" attack is the feckless Ash (Bruce Campbell), the luckiest of the lot.

When Sam Raimi made "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn" in 1987, he repeated the premise, completely without shame. Ash (Campbell) t