12 Things You Didn't Know About The Evil Dead Movies

12. Evil Dead II Has Barely Any Red Blood

There are buckets of gore splattered across all the Evil Dead films, but the slapstick sequel might have the most viscera-per-minute. There's plenty of blood and guts in the original, but somehow – despite Evil Dead II nominally being a funnier, lighter riposte to its predecessor – the follow up lays on the Karo syrup even thicker.

Here's the thing though: film censors don't smile all that fondly on that much claret being traumatically spurted over the screen. A lot of the success of the first Evil Dead was down to its notoriety, being branded a Video Nasty in the UK and all. But the second film was funded by the legit De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. They wanted a wide release.

So, Sam Raimi found an ingenious way of getting around this Motion Picture Association of America edict: barely any of the blood in the film is actually, well, blood-coloured. If you pay attention, you'll see Bruce Campbell slipping over in oily expulsions, green slime, and occasionally splattered with bright red blood; but nothing realistic-looking.