Sam Raimi was not initially optimistic about the talents of the Coen brothers. He recounted that Ethan Coen was "just a statistic accountant at Macy's at the time." After reading the Sang pour sang (1984) script, however, Bruce Campbell commented that the screenplay was "great", comparing it to the work of Alfred Hitchcock.
John Cameron, second assistant director on the film, would later remark, "I see Mort sur le gril (1985) as a real turning point in a certain way, because if you survived that experience, nothing in the business could ever be as hard again".
Sam Raimi regarded the film as one of the least favorite moments of his career, musing that "it was really wrong. It was such a horrible, horrible, horrible, depressing scene."
Sam Raimi: [The Three Stooges] many, including the bowling balls rolling off the shelf onto the man's head, and a cameo by Stooges regular Emil Sitka.