Because Sam Raimi couldn't get the rights to his own movie, Evil Dead 2 was made as a "re-quel" , which means that they essentially remade The Evil Dead with new people. Campbell states that people thought Ash would be dumb to return to the same cabin with different people, but this wasn't the case. Instead, Evil Dead 2 is basically the first movie again; it was shot as a recap with different actors, except Bruce Campbell, who reprised his role as Ash Williams. Therefore, The Evil Dead is the next part of the timeline.
Ash Williams, in this timeline, was born in He and his friends traveled to the Knowby cabin, where the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis was discovered by Professor Raymond Knowby in along with the Kandarian dagger in the ruins of Kandar Castle; in the Army of Darkness timeline, Ash is concurrently hibernating due to a potion in a cave near this very castle. In total, Ash 1 slept for six centuries. The events of The Evil Dead transpire after Ash and his friends read from the book and summon the Deadites and ends with the last sequence of The Evil Dead where Ash is being attacked by an unseen entity after he is the sole survivor of the events at the Knowby cabin; this was originally meant to portray his demise.
Evil Dead 2 has a few differences here. First, Ash's hand is possessed and he chops it off, replacing it with a chainsaw. Ash, Linda, and Annie Knowby end up discovering what happened to the professor after he discovered the book and read the incantation. Annie also reads various incantations from the Necronomicon; she attempts to force the Kandarian demon to manifest physically and ends up opening a time vortex to banish the demon. Ash ends up being sucked into the time vortex, and ends up traveling through time to AD, where Army of Darkness begins.
After defeating the Deadites in Army of Darkness , Ash is given a potion that will allow him to sleep until he returns to his own time. He sleeps for six centuries, and then re-awakens in , then gets his job back at the S-Mart. Eventually Raimi came across Irvin Shapiro , the man who was responsible for the distribution of Night of the Living Dead and other famous horror films.
Upon first viewing the film, he joked that while it "wasn't Gone with the Wind ", it had commercial potential, and he expressed an interest in distributing it. It was his idea not to use the then-title Book of the Dead, because it made the film sound boring. Raimi brainstormed several ideas, eventually going with The Evil Dead, deemed the "least worst" title.
Shapiro also advised distributing the film worldwide to garner a larger income, though it required a further financial investment by Raimi, who managed to scrape together what little money he had.
Richard DeManincor and Theresa Tilly , members of the Screen Actors Guild, used stage names to avoid being penalized for participating in a non-union production. On January 23, , filming was finished and almost every crew member left the set to return home, with Bruce Campbell staying with Sam Raimi. While looking over the footage that had been shot, Raimi discovered that a few pick-ups were required to fill in missing shots.
Four days of re-shoots were then done to complete the film. The final moment involved Campbell having "monster-guts" splattered on him in the basement. In a scene where Ash drives away from the cabin, he gets out of the car and seems to walk at an angle, creating an eerie and otherworldly effect. This was accomplished by parking the car on a slight incline and tilting the camera at the same angle so that the car appeared straight.
When Bruce Campbell gets out of the car, he is walking on the flat ground, which looks crooked because the car and camera are both tilted sideways. Inspired by William Castle , Sam Raimi had ambulances on stand-by as a publicity stunt at the film's premiere. Sam Raimi shot a short film called "Within the Woods" to act as a calling card for his feature debut.
The character of Scotty is named after Raimi's long-time friend Scott Spiegel , and the character of Cheryl is named after Cheryl Guttridge , the star of Raimi's short film Clockwork During the car scene, Scotty has a glass of moonshine in his hand and Ash makes a funny face. Originally, they were all supposed to be drinking moonshine - and Ash's expression was a reaction to the drink, but the scene was cut.
When Ash shoots a Deadite through the window of the cabin causing an explosion of blood, Bruce Campbell is actually firing real life ammunition at a dummy, causing the scene to look more realistic.
The film was screened several times around middle to late to Michigan preview audiences who loved the film. According to Bruce Campbell , "one patron was happy she saw the film because she was having a bad day! To accommodate Sam Raimi 's style of direction, several elaborate, low-budget rigs had to be built, since the crew could not afford a camera dolly.
One involved the "vas-o-cam", which relied on a mounted camera that was slid down long wood platforms to create a more fluid sense of motion. Ganoush's car in Drag Me to Hell , and has made cameos in nearly all of his other movies. Home video copies produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment are uncut and unrated because the licensing studio, Renaissance Pictures, was not contractually obligated to provide an MPAA rating.
Shots of the moon had to be "matted" into the night scenes. In the footage, a square outline is visible around the moon matte. In his glowing review of the film, Stephen King specifically cited the matted moon footage as being part of the film's low-budget "charm. During scenes involving the unseen force in the woods watching the characters, Sam Raimi had to run through the woods with the makeshift rig, jumping over logs and stones.
This often proved difficult due to mist in the swamp. Ted Raimi was used as a substitute in many scenes when the original actor was either busy or preoccupied. Bruce Campbell received numerous injuries during the making on the film.
A noticeable one caught on film is in the scene where a possessed Cheryl's hand bursts through the cabin floor to seize Ash by the face. A trickle of Campbell's actual blood runs down his head as the actor was gashed in the head by the puppeteer in the floor who blindly grabbed for Campbell. Betsy Baker lost her eye lashes in the process of removing her facial mold. Was one of the first films to be labeled as a "Video Nasty" in the UK, and was banned because of this. Irvin Shapiro , the film's producer, was the one who helped sell the film and its eventual success.
He mentored Sam Raimi on how to sell the film properly, as he was inexperienced as a filmmaker at the time and the only way the film could have been sold was through brochures in multiple languages , press kits, etc. Once this was done, the film eventually found a distributor. When Ash reaches for the necklace on the floor, the chain forms the shape of a skull. The eerie howling wind audio heard in the background of much of the film wasn't stock sound effects.
Raimi recorded this audio himself while staying in a hotel during filming. One evening Raimi awoke to hear the wind blowing through the mountains creating a haunting sound. Raimi quickly got his sound equipment and recorded several minutes of it. Sam Raimi said that the audio was so effectively creepy that he'd recognized it used in several other films since The Evil Dead's release.
The remainder of the film was shot all around Michigan utilizing Rob Tapert 's family farm, Sam Raimi 's garage and other various indoor and outdoor locations. To acquire more actors for the project, an ad in The Detroit News was placed. Betsy Baker was one of the actresses who responded. Despite its controversy and many technical goofs, this is considered to be one of the greatest horror films of all time.
Many fans claim it is due to its amount of gore and execution of terror, while critics claim it is due to it's constant reliance on visual storytelling and gripping performances. One reason Sam Raimi moved production to Tennessee was to avoid the harsh winter shooting conditions in his home state of Michigan.
In an ironic twist, the winter of ended up being one of the mildest in Michigan and one of the most brutally cold in Tennessee. Cigarette smoke stood in for "dust" caught in the sunlight when Scott first opens the cabin door. According to director Sam Raimi, producer Rob Tapert stood just off camera smoking while the shot was being filmed. The film premiered at the Redford Theatre in Detroit because Bruce Campbell watched films there as a child. As the car is driving up to the cabin at the beginning of the movie, instead of Theresa Tilly it's Sam Raimi you see from "Shelly's" window.
In the comic series Marvel Zombies, it is revealed that Ash somehow ends up in a parallel Marvel Universe and ends up being the cause of that universe becoming Zombified. For years after the completion of the film it was rumored that the cabin was struck by lightning and burned.
However, in recent years it has been revealed that Sam Raimi had the cabin burned following the wrap of principle photography on Evil Dead. The crumbling fireplace and part of the chimney are all that remains of the cabin today. He had drawn several crude illustrations to help him break down the flow of scenes.
The crew was surprised when Raimi began using dutch angles during shots to build atmosphere during scenes. Producer Rob Tapert's future wife saw The Evil Dead upon release and was appalled by the film, particularly for the infamous "vine rape" sequence, wondering what kind of horrible people would make such a movie.
Little did she know she would later marry one of the filmmakers. Previously his company was synonymous with making foreign language films like Fitzcarraldo more widely available in the UK. He locks Linda outside the cabin and tends to Scotty's injuries, but she sneaks in through the back-door and attacks Ash with a ceremonial dagger, which he uses to impale her.
Taking her body to the woodshed, Ash tries to force himself to dismember her with a chainsaw, but finds himself unable to do it and buries her instead. She rises from the grave and attacks him, forcing him to decapitate her with a shovel. Returning to the cabin, Ash finds that Cheryl has escaped from the cellar. Arming himself with a shotgun, he finds her hiding outside and shoots her in the shoulder.
He then descends into the cellar to search for more shotgun shells after barricading the doors. While there, he hears voices and sees blood seeping from numerous crevices and openings in the walls. A demoniacally possessed Scotty tries to kill Ash as Cheryl breaks through the door. During their fight, Ash sees that the Book of the Dead has fallen near the fireplace and is starting to burn, as are Cheryl and Scotty. As Cheryl raises a fireplace poker to impale him, Ash snatches the book and throws it into the fire.
With the book burnt, Cheryl and Scotty fall apart and die as the sun rises. As Ash heads outside, an unseen evil speeds through the forest, breaks through the doors of the cabin and descends upon him. He turns around and screams in terror before the film cuts to the end credits. But it was actually rights issues that brought all this about. Ad — content continues below. The questions about how all three Evil Dead movies fit together or IF they fit together at all has always been a point of contention among Deadites, and here, Mr.
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