Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Ellen Sandweiss in The Evil Dead 

When Ellen Sandweiss agreed to participate in the 1979 horror flick The Evil Dead, she didn't know what she was getting herself into. "That scene initially was supposed to just be a 'tree attack' scene, the rape part kind of evolved as we were shooting it," Sandweiss said. "It was pretty grueling, shooting in the cold, in the middle of the night, getting scraped up by trees, not a whole lot of fun. People were quite shocked when they saw it, but not quite as shocked as I was."

Sandweiss wasn't the only one who felt the film was a grueling work of art: The Evil Dead was banned in the UK until the year 2000.