Actor replacements that fooled us all

The Cast of Evil Dead

The term “Fake Shemp” was actually coined by Evil Dead director Sam Raimi because he needed to use so many of them during production of his iconic horror film. As star Bruce Campbell recounted in his memoir If Chins Could Kill, because Evil Dead was so ultra low-budget, Raimi and the actors couldn’t always work on the same schedule. The result was that Raimi sometimes needed to film what he could when he could and with whom he could, which meant no fewer than 18 stand-ins were used during production. That’s pretty incredible, as the end result shows no sign that so many extra people were involved.