10 Horror Movie Mistakes You Never Noticed Before

A low-budget horror movie for the ages, The Evil Dead began life as a suitably shocking, schlocky and gory entry into the '80s horror canon. Sam Raimi's cabin-in-the-woods possession horror sees a group comprising Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell), his girlfriend, and their closest friends make the trek up to a remote lodging for a night of partying and shenanigans. But when they find and read from the Book of the Dead (the Necronomicon) and play a recording of the professor who was studying it, evil spirits rise and attempt to kill ‘em all.

While everything about the film, from its frenetic direction to hammy acting to cheap yet effective practical effects, made it an instant cult classic, there are nonetheless the few flaws that come with the territory of low-budget filmmaking.

One of the more subtle instances is linked to the book that causes the whole nightmare. The professor's tape announces that the Necronomicon is "bound in human flesh and inked in human blood", and yet when Ash is flicking through the text, it is clearly penned in ordinary ink, and sketched and shaded in graphite. There are portions of colour - a bright red at one point - but these could not possibly have been blood, as blood turns brown on paper.

You can be forgiven for not noticing this, however, because it is only after Ash has perused the book that we discover it's supposed to be written in blood.