The incidental music on all three movies was written and orchestrated by Detroit native Joseph Lo Duca.

Lo Duca had never tackled a film score before when in 1981 a young Raimi asked him to compose a score for one of his student films. LoDuca studied Jazz and Classical music at Michigan University he was hardly qualified to tackle the task. Over a period of months Lo Duca and Raimi discussed the 'role' of music in the film, "We would sit around for hours at his mother's home watching movies....... Sam would tell me to listen to a score by Bernard Herrmann. I would comment that it resembled a Stravinsky piece to me.", explained Lo Duca.

Lo Duca used a string ensemble combined with the use of keyboard synthesiser effects to create the haunting score. Such was the popularity of these synthesiser sounds that after the success of the film they came with an added feature called 'Evil Dead sound' based on the combinations created by Lo Duca.

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LoDuca returned for both sequels using the same style to create the terror of Ash's improbable situations. For the main theme for 'Army Of Darkness' (March of the Dead) Raimi hired Danny Elfman whom he'd previously worked with on his 1990 hit 'Darkman'. Raimi has since worked with Elfman on the 'Spider-Man' movies for Sony.