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Bearded Lady’s Mystic Museum in Burbank California hosted an 'immersive experience' Evil Dead exhibition from September 7th to December 7th, 2019. Working with Renaissance Pictures LTD, it featured various screen-used & original trilogy props, along with some replica items, extensive original photos, with new Evil Dead inspired/tribute artwork for sale.
It was open noon to 7pm on Sundays & Mondays, 11am to 7pm Tuesdays through Saturdays. Entry was $12, with children needing an accompanying adult. It was sponsored by Shudder Creepy Co, Fright-Rags, Fangoria, Slashback Video, The Haunt Store, Trick or Treat Studios, & Inflatable Design Group, with special thanks given to Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Rob Tapert, and Jose Canas.
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It was the first time so many Evil Dead trilogy props have been displayed in one place, and it's been a huge help to replica prop-makers, allowing a really detailed look at a number of screen-used chainsaws, mechanical arms, and other various rare items.
As an aside, on image 061 below you can see a close-up of a film can labeled Evil Dead I orig. work print (to send out to fans), which is likely just a tantalizing but empty prop. A full feature length print would be on 4-6 much larger 35mm reels. Further, there is a Polaroid in the middle of photo 078 partially noted as Tennessee E.D. '83, which while dark, appears to show the remains of the cabin (after it was burned down), with the chimney stack visible. Who took this photo is unknown, but it's interesting to think one or more of the group visited the cabin after it was destroyed. Bruce has mentioned travelling back to the cabin roughly six months after the completion of shooting around August of 1980, finding the cabin overgrown but still intact.
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For the many fans around the world who were unable to see it, and in order to preserve this fantastic exhibition for future years, you can see extensive photos below. They've been collected from a number of sources. 223 of these photos were taken by US fan Alfonso Gonzales, with the remaining 116 contributed by Jim McPhearson, the Mystic Museum themselves, and various Facebook postings. The copyright holders for some of the images are unknown, so if anyone can see one of their own photos below and wish to be credited, or would rather they were not included here, please get in touch.
Clicking each image will display a larger version in a 'Lightbox' window. Use the arrow icons or your keyboard's left/right arrows to navigate to the next photos. You can also middle-click an image to open the larger version in a new window. If you want a full-resolution version of any of these images you can use the download link above, or more information on anything featured, then please ask.
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