Abdul Alzeez was
the author of the Necronomicon, The Book of the Dead, after gathering the text
of the dark ones he began translating and writing the book, which is written in
human blood and bound in human flesh.
Ash meets Abdul as he travels back
in time just as Abdul is about to be executed and helps him as he is the only
one who knows how to truley defeat the evil for good.
Annie Knowby is
the daughter of Professor Raymond Knowby who discovered the Book of the Dead in
the back of Castle Candar. Annie arrives by plane with Ed Gently with more pages
from the Book of the Dead, as they travel to the cabin they meet Jake and
Bobbie-Joe who tell them that the bridge is down but take them to the cabin via
a pathway. 
The name of the 3rd film in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead Trilogy,
having a budget of 30 million dollars it used large scale sets and special
effects, most notably the siege of Castle Candar by the skeletion army.
Written By Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi and directed By Sam Raimi.
The Army of
the Dead is first ressurected when Ash takes the Necronomicon without correctly
reciting the incantation, as Ash leaves the graveyard with the book the
skeletons emerge from the ground attacking him, luckly for Ash he makes a quick
exit back to Candar Castle. However Ash's counterpart 'Evil Ash' is also
ressurected and takes it upon himself to lead the Army of the Dead agaisnt
Castle Candar in an attempt to capture the Necronomicon back.
The
skeleton army manages to seige the castle but when Henry the Red's army turn up
and Evil Ash is killed the remaining skeletons flee.
Ash is the hero of
the story, although for the most part of Evil Dead he is rather cowardly and it
isnt untill he is the only one left when he starts to defend himself, his
girlfirend Linda becomes a Deadite and he is unable to finish the job, At the
end of Evil Dead Ash is caught by the Evil force.
This is where Evil
Dead 2 picks up in a round about way, Ash is thrown through the woods by the
Evil Force and becomes possessed only to be restored to Human form when he sees
the sunlight. After his girlfriend comes back from the dead Ash chops her head
off only to be bitten by it, it is here where his hand becomes infected, The
possessed hand trys to punch, throw and stab Ash, so Ash being Ash chops off his
hand and then spends a couple of minuites trying to finish off his possessed
hand who is now on the loose. Eventually Anni Knowby and others come to the
house only to be shot at by Ash, after a strugle Ash is locked up in the cellar
only for him to find out that the Possessed Henrietta is down there too. One by
one they become possessed or killed, Ash attaches the chainsaw to the stump on
his arm to kill the possessed Henriette in the Cellar and to retrieve the lost
pages of the Necronomicon. After the passages are spoken Ash is thrown back in
time to the 13th centuary.
The Army of Darkness continues on from here,
Ash is captured by King Arthurs men and is thrown into a pit, after killing the
deadite within the pit he is hailed as a hero, Ash travles off to retrieve the
Necronomicon in an attempt to return home, While in a windmill Ash battles
several little Ash's, after swallowing one it grows and evil Ash is born, after
making swift work of him Ash buries him and continues in his search, after
reciting the wrong words Ash resurrects Evil Ash along with the Army of
Darkness. The Army of Darkness Attack the castle in an attepmt to get the
Necronomicon back. but are finnaly defeated with the help of King Henry. Ash
returns to his own time back at his job at S-Mart, only to fight another Deadite
one last time.
Hail to the King continues the story 8 years later. He's
starting working at his old job in Shop S-Mart and settled down with his new
girl, Jenny.
However, the nightmares of the evil dead return to haunt
Ash, Jenny tells him to return to the cabin in the woods to face his fears,
while at the cabin Ash's possessed hand turns on professor Knowby's tape once
again reciting the passages and wakening the Evil Dead. After his girlfriend is
taken by the deadites once again Ash dones his chainsaw and shotgun.
According to Professor Raymond Knowby the only way to kill one of the
possessed is through decapitation, the axe is highly used in Evil Dead, first by
Scotty to knock the possessed Cheryl into the cellar then to decapitate his own
girlfriend Shelly, chopping off her limbs before finnaly decapitation her, Ash
then later use the axe himself.
In Hail to the King the axe is one of
the weapons that Ash uses.
The
blacksmith has helped Ash constantly, he cheers Ash on while he is battling the
Deadites in the pit, even laughing as a hand cut off from one of the Deadites by
Ash flies up into the air and sticks to one of the pesants faces. Later when Ash
decides to go on the quest for the Necronomicon he enlists the help of the
Blacksmith to make him a new hand out of a gauntlet.
When Ash returns
with the Necronomicon and having raised the Army of the Dead the Blacksmith is
the first to come to his side. With the aid of an engineering book found in the
boot of Ash's Oldsmobile Delta '88 he turns the car into a Deathcoaster which
Ash uses to cut down plenty of Deadites. During the seige the Blacksmith is at
the front of the battle defending the gate as it falls using Ash's fighting
technique.
Bobby-Joe is Jakes girlfriend. They meet Annie Knowby and Ed Getly who
are travelling to the cabin, Bobby-Joe gets Jake to ask for 100 dollars in
exchange for taking them to the cabin via a trail. When they reach the cabin she
is shot at by Ash but it's only a flesh wound. Soon enough things get worse for
Bobby-Joe as she swallows a flying eyeball, eventually she runs off into the
woods only to be attacked by the trees never to be seen again.
The
Necronomicon, translated as Book of the Dead was written by Abdul Alzeez based
on the text of the dark ones, the Samerian text includes bizzare burial rights,
funerary incantations and deamon ressurection passages, never ment for the
living world. When recited they open up a doorway to another realm alowing them
to possessed the living. 
Ash's shotgun,
Remington- 12 Gauge double barrelled remington, S-mart's top of the line.
Retails for about 109.95. With a walnut stock, colbult blue steel, and a hair
trigger. You can find it in the Sporting Goods Department.
Whinchester
Repeater
The Cabin within the woods.
the
dagger.
castle.
The cellar.
The Chainsaw.
Cheryl travels to
the cabin with her brother Ash, Ash's girlfriend Linda and two other students
Scotty and Shelly. Cheryl is the first to encounter the strange events at the
cabin as her hand temporarily becomes possessed and draws a rough sketch of the
Book of the Dead on her sketchpad. She also notices the old clock stop, then
start again. When Scotty plays Professor Knowby's tape found in the cellar she
is spooked out and demands it it switched off.
That night Cheryl
believes there is someone out in the woods, as she goes outside to investigate
she is attacked and raped by the trees, she manages to survive and get back to
the cabin, she tells everyone that she can't stay at the cabin any longer and
persuades Ash to take her to the nearest town but they soon find out that the
bridge is down and return to the cabin.
Chreyl is the first to become
possessed and locked up in the cellar by Scotty.
See Also:
Possessed
Cheryl.
The Clock.
The car was first
seen in Evil Dead taking the 5 students to the cabin, the car was driven by
Scotty but belongs to Ash.
Duke Henry is
captured by Lord Arthur along with Ash who is mistaken for one of his men, Lord
Arthur orders them to be thrown into the pit due to the fued between the two
side but Duke Henry accuses Lord Arthur of attacking first. When Ash killed the
pit Deadites he let Duke Henry and his men go to a annoyance of Lord Arthur.
Duke henry returns with his men during the seige of Castle Candar by the
Army of the Dead and helps win the day, a truce is then made between the two
sworn enemies.
Ed Getly is an Associate to Professor Raymond Knowby and is
with him at Castle Candar when they find the Book of the Dead and the Candarian
Dagger.
He travels with Raymond Knowby's daughter, Annie Knowby, and
goes with her to the cabin in the woods hoping to meet up with Professor Knowby
and his wife. However on reaching the cabin Ed locks Ash in the cellar thinking
he killed the Professor and his wife, as as they play the tape to reveal the
truth about Annie's parents they release Ash just before Ed becomes possessed.
See Also: Possessed Ed
Evil Ash.
Title of Evil Dead, originally called Book of the Dead.
The Evil Dead
"The Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror", is the first film in the cult
classic trilogy. Here's a quote of from Bruce about the film, "In the summer of
1979, Sam, Robert, and I, collected approximately $375,000 from investors in the
Detroit area and made our first feature film: "The Evil Dead." I starred as Ash,
a witless college student besieged by demons in a quaint cabin nestled in the
Tennessee woods. "The Evil Dead" was highly successful both critically and
financially and officially launched our professional careers..." Originally
entitled "Book of The Dead", the film was shot Morristown Tennessee. The film
took over three months to shoot. Read all about the three month ordeal in Josh
Becker's journal. Evil Dead is the goriest and of the entire Evil Dead Trilogy
with the many depictions of body dismemberment curtesy of Tom Sullivan. Evil
Dead was the film that introduced the world to Sam Raimi and made Bruce Campbell
a cult hero and actor.
Title of Evil
Dead 2.
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn, is the second film in the cult
classic trilogy. Due to the sucess of the first film, Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and
the rest of the Evil Dead gang were able to get more money for investors for a
second film. Evil Dead 2 is basically what Sam Raimi intended for Evil Dead 1 to
be. So yes you could call it a remake, but it works well as a sequel in a Sam
Raimish kind of way. The story and some characters were changed, but major
elements of the first were kept. New actors were hired. The only actor from the
first film to stay is of course our man Bruce Campbell. Ted Raimi, who worked as
fake shemp in first film comes back in the second film as the possessed
Henrietta. The sets and special FXs were also improved making the film even more
amazing. This film has plenty of gore but is less gruesome than. Since Sam Raimi
is a big Three Stooges fan, a lot of slapstick has aslo been thrown in making
this film a horror comedy.
Father Allard is an old friend of Professor Raymond Knowby and helped
him when the Deadites first attaked the cabin. Now that the Deadites have
returned back to the cabin they have also attacked Farther Allaers church,
Allard helps Ash out and tells him that he can dispell the evil if Ash can
retrieve the pages from the Necronomicon and the Candarian Dagger..whether he
keeps his word or not remains to be seen.
gauntlet
Gold Tooth was
the person who closed the spikes at Lord Arthurs command on the pit while Ash
was fighting the Deadites, when Ash emerges from the pit he looks for someone to
pick on and chooses Gold Tooth, but Gold Tooth doesn't rise to the challange and
is made out to be a coward. When Ash is trying to rally Lord Arthurs fleeing
troops Gold Tooth is one of the men to first come to his side.
the computer game.
Henrietta
Knowby is wife to Professor Raymond Knowby who discovered the Book of the Dead
at Castle Candar. She went with the Professor to the cabin where he translated
the text, on the tape that is played back by Ash in Evil Dead 2 Professor
Raymond speaks of how Henreitta turned into a Candarian Deamon and that he
killed her burying her in the earthen cellar of the cabin.
See
Also:
Possessed Henrietta
Jake is setting up a sign at the bridge to the Knowby cabin
as Annie Knowby and Ed Getly arrive wanting to cross the collapsed bridge. Annie
and Ed ask Jake to be taken to the cabin via a trail and agree to give Jake and
his girlfriend Bobby-Joe 100 dollars on the condition he carries their luggage,
however Jake is tricked and ends up carrying a rather large and heavy trunk.
On reaching the cabin Jake punches Ash after a stray shot hit Bobby-Joe
in the arm. When Bobby-Joe dissapears in the woods Jake takes the shogun, throws
the essential pages from the Necronomicon into the cellar and forces Ash and
Annie Knowby into the woods to look for Bobbie-Joe, on return to the cabin Jake
is stabbed by Annie with the Cadarian Dagger thinking he is the Possessed Ash,
while laying injured near the cellar trapdoor the possessed Henrietta managed to
grab him and drag him to his death dispite attempts from Annie Knowby to save
him.
Eight years after Ash's ordeal with the Army of Darkness
Ash has got himself a new girlfriend, Jenny, who suggests to Ash that he return
to the cabin to face his fears due the the nightmares he's been having. However
Ash's possessed hand turns on Professor Knowby's old tape and causes the
Deadites to once again attack the cabin, Jenny is captured by Bad Ash who takes
her to the 8th centuary to use her as a sacrifice.
At the end of Army of
Darkness, Ash meets a girl who works at S-Mart, this could well be Jenny.
Linda is Ash's girlfriend and together they
travel to the cabin with Ash's sister Cheryl and two friends Shelly and Scott.
While at the cabin Ash gives her a silver necklace. When Cheryl becomes
possessed she stabs Linda in the leg with a pencil so that Ash will not leave
her and escape. Linda soon enough becomes possessed.
In Evil Dead 2
Linda is played by Denise Bixler and it it just Linda and Ash who travel to the
cabin, after Ash plays Professor Knowby's tape Linda is taken by the Evil and
becomes another Deadite.
For Army of Darkness Linda was played by
Bridget Fonda for the flashback sequences, Showing Linda working with Ash at
S-Mart, travelling to the cabin and being taken by the Evil.
See
Also:
Possessed Linda
Lord Arthur
and his men see Ash and his car fall from the sky, the Wiseman tells Arthur that
he is the one that will free them from the Deadites, but Arthur has him captured
thinking he is one of Duke Henry's men.
As Arthur retuns to Castle
Candar with Ash and Henry's men in tow he tells Sheila that her brother died in
battle, she then takes this out on Ash. Arthur has the slaves thrown into the
pit, as one attempts to run away he kills him with a crossbow. After Ash climbs
back up the pit he punches Arthur, Ash then realeases Duke Henry's men much to
Arthurs annoyance who challenges Ash by drawing his sword, only to have it shot
in half by Ash with his shotgun.
When Ash comes back from his quest
having accidentily raised the Army of the Dead Arthur questions his authority,
but Arthur comes round when his men rally to Ash's side. Arthur is shot in the
shoulder with an arrow while defending the Necronomicon but survives and a truce
between him and Henry's men is made after they come to their aid during the
seige.
Mirror.
Necklace.
The
Necronomicon, translated as Book of the Dead was written by Abdul Alzeez based
on the text of the dark ones, the Samerian text includes bizzare burial rights,
funerary incantations and deamon ressurection passages, never ment for the
living world. When recited they open up a doorway to another realm alowing them
to possessed the living.
The Book was first found in present day by
Professor Raymond Knowby at the back of Candar Castle, he took the book to his
cabin where he could study and translate the book in peace. When he first read
the book his wife became possessed and he someone died. When Ash and his friends
goto the cabin for a vacation they find the Necronomicon in the cellar and play
the tape which has the incarntation passages on, once again awakening the evil,
while Ash is battling with the possessed Scotty and Cheryl the book is thrown
into the fire, killing the deamons.
In Evil Dead 2 Professor Known's
daughter arrives at the cabin with the lost pages of the Necronomicon, the first
passage of text will transform the Evil into flesh giving it form, the second
passage will open a rift in time sending the evil back. However Jake throws the
lost pages into the cellar causing Ash to get them, once the pages are read
aloud by Annie the Evil is sent back into time along with Ash.
In the
13th Centuary the Necronomicon lies untouched in a graveyard untill Ash goes on
a quest to find it because it is the only thing that can get him back home.
however when he finds the book there are three of them, when Ash reaches for one
a great hole opens sucking him in, the second one comes alive like a bat
attacking him. When Ash does bring the book back to Candar Castle where it
remains waiting to be found.
In Evil Dead 1, the Necronomicon is called
'Naturum de Montum' but in Evil Dead 2 it is called 'Necronomicon ex Mortis' ,
both are ment to translate to Book of the Dead but the second translates to 'To
join the book of the recently dead'. Book of the Dead was also the original
title for Evil Dead.
The old woman
plays only a minor role in Army of Darkness, when Ash and Duke Henry's men are
about to be thrown into the pit she steps out of the crowd calling them 'sons of
whores'.
The car was first
seen in Evil Dead taking the 5 students to the cabin, the car was driven by
Scotty but belongs to Ash.
The Pit is located
at Candar Castle and is where the Deadites are kept and the slaves are thrown,
As is thrown down there to battle two Pit Deadites after being captured by Lord
Arthur.
During the Seige of Candar Castle Ash struggles with the
possessed Sheila and throws her into the pit, however she manages to escape.
The Pit
Deadite lives underneath Candar Castle in the pit and first kills one of Duke
Henry's men before battling Ash. Ash takes quite a beating from the Pit Deadite
untill he throws her onto the spikes giving Wiseman John enough time to throw
Ash his chainsaw, he uses this to decapitate the pit Deadite.
The second
Pit Deadite appears from within the walls of the pit as Ash is looking for a way
out. As Ash battles with the beast he manages to cut off one of his hands, it
flys up into the air grabbing one of the villages in the face. As Ash tries to
escape the pit by holding onto a chain that is travelling upwards the Pit
Deadite struggles to stop Ash but fails.
Once Ash is out of the pit the
Deadite emerges by climbing up the chain, Ash turns around to shoot the chain,
then shoot the Deadite causing it to do a backflip back into the pit.
Shortly after
being attacked in the woods by the trees Cheryl became possessed and attacked
her friend Linda with a pencil, stabbing her in the leg. The possessed Linda
struggled with Scotty but was beaten into the Cellar where she was locked in.
While trapped in the cellar the possessed Cheryl tried to trick her brother Ash
into opening up the trap door but failed, later on however she managed to break
the hindge and escape.
Cheryl went on to attack her brother but was
finnaly killed when Ash burnt the Necronomicon in the fireplace.
See
Also:
Cheryl
After Ash was
beaten by his girlfriend Linda who had become possessed his hand became infected
and possessed, punching and throwing Ash about, Ash then chopped the hand off
using a chainsaw giving the hand movement. Ash shot the hand thinking he had
killd it. While Annie Knowby was reciting the last passage from the lost pages
of the necronomicon to send the Evil back into the past the possessed Hand
stabbed Annie in the back with the Cardarian Dagger.
8 years after Ash
went to the cabin he returned once again with his girlfriend Jenny, however the
possessed hand switched on Professor Knowby's old tape once again awakening the
Evil.
Henrietta
Knowby became possessed after her husband, Professor Raymond Knowby, translated
and recited the passages from the Book of the Dead, after she became possessed
she was killed by her husband and buried in the earthen cellar in the cabin.
Shorty after Ash is locked in the cellar by Annie Knowby Henrietta comes
back from the grave and tries to attack Ash, who is rescued in the nick of time.
Henrietta remained locked in the cellar for some time and almost tricked Annie
Knowby into opening up the cellar by singing an old la-la-by song. Later the
possessed Henrietta manages to drag Jake into the cellar. Ash straps the
chainsaw to his arm and cuts the cellar door open, he goes down into the cellar
looking for the lost pieces of the Necronomicon where he fights Henrietta who
manages to escape the cellar, while Annie distracts the creature by singing the
same song as before Ash decapitates the creature with his chainsaw.
See Also:
Henrietta Knowby
Linda first
became possessed in Evil Dead, at first she sat in the doorway just giggling,
Ash dragged her outside only to attack him later on. Ash shot her and dragged
her to the shed, he strapped the body down and was about to decapitate her with
the chainsaw before he broke down in tears, so instead he buried her. Linda
didnt stay buried for long and attacked Ash, but with one swipe from his spade
took her head off.
In Evil Dead 2 after Linda (played by Denise Bixler)
has been decapitated Linda does a dance with her head (done by Snowy Winters),
Linda's head bites Ash's hand infecting it, Ash takes the head to the shed and
clamps it to a vice to realease his hand. Her remaining body storms into the
shed to attack Ash with the chainsaw, but Ash manages to easy kill the body and
to then use the chainsaw himself on the head of Linda.
See
Also:
Linda
See
Also:
After being
captured by the Winged Deadite and taken to Evil Ash and his Army of the Dead
Shiela becomes possessed. When Ash is in his Deathcoaster he sees Shiela in it's
path looking 'normal' being unable to bring himself to kill her he crashes the
Deathcoaster instead, only to then be attacked by the possessed Shiela, Ash
throws her into the pit.
When Ash is up on the battlements the possessed
Shiela returns again only to be stabbed and thrown off the battlements, once the
battle is over Shiela returns to her normal self and in perfect health, dispite
her previous injuries.
See Also:
Shiela
Shelly is Scotts
girlfriend and along with Ash's girlfriend (Linda) and sister (Cheryl) they
travel to the cabin in the woods. While playing cards she lies to Linda about
which cards she's holding untill Cheryl begins to guess the right cards and
reveals she is a deadite. Shelly survives intact with the battle against Cheryl.
While the possessed Cheryl is locked up in the cellar Shelly returns to her room
to get some rest, after not appearing for some time Scott goes to look for her
only to find out she is possessed.
See Also:
Possessed
Shelly
While Ash is
relaxing at Candar Castle a woman becomes possessed, after talking about the
Necronomicon she feign deaths almost luring Lord Arthur into her trap if it
wasnt for Ash's quick thinking. She then battles Ash and Lord Arthurs men,
blinding one of them with boiling water. Ash kills her with his double barrelled
shotgun.
The Possessed Witch returns in the S-Mart store to battle Ash
one last time, the witch tries to crush the female S-Mart clerk with the till
only to have it shot out of her hands by Ash, who promptly finishes her off for
good.
Professor
Raymond Knowby discovered the Book of the Dead at Castle Candar along with a
Candarian Dagger, after travelling to the cabin in the woods with his wife
Henrietta Knowby, he translated the deamon ressurection passages that opened a
doorway to another realm where deamons called Deadites possess the living, this
caused his wife to turn into a Candarian Deamon, after the Professor killed her
he buried her in the earthen cellar of the cabin.
Although only heard on
the tape in Evil Dead he appears as a ghost in Evil Dead 2 telling Ash and Annie
Knowby (his daughter) how to defeat the Evil saying that it will save his soul
and their lives. It is unknown as to how the Professor actually died.
In Army of
Darkness Ash recounts his story to another S-Mart employee who looks rather
unimpressed by story, who questions him on reciting the 3 words that will take
Ash back to his own time.
Ted Raimi also played the roles of Cowardly
Warrior/Second Supportive Villager in Army of Darkness and Possessed Henrietta
in Evil Dead 2.
See Also:
Cowardly Warrior
Possessed
Henrietta
Second Supportive Villager
Scotty travels to the cabin with his friend Ash and their
girlfriends Shelly and Linda along with Ash's sister Cheryl. When they hear
noises coming from the cellar Scott is the first one to go down and plays a
practical joke on Ash. Scott finds Professor Knowby's possessions, the Book of
the Dead, the Cardarian Dagger, the tape player and the shotgun. Scotty brings
the items up and plays the tape only to be told by Cheryl to switch it off.
When Cheryl becomes possessed Scotty locks her up in the cellar and
makes quick work of his girlfriend when she becomes possessed. However when he
realises the situation makes a run for it but isnt so lucky in the woods and
returns to the cabin as a Deadite.
See Also:
Possessed
Scott
When Lord Arthur and his men return with Duke Henry's men
Sheila asks him about her brother only to be informed of his death, thinking Ash
is one of the Dukes men she takes it out on him.
When Ash is ordered
into the pit he protest's his innocence, it is Sheila who throws a stone at him
knocking him into the pit. After Ash comes back from the pit and hailed as the
chosen one Sheila soon changes her tune and falls in love with Ash, when she
first visits Ash and gives him a gift he rejects her calling her primitive but
after Sheila slaps him in the face he kisses her. When Ash is building his new
hand Sheila can be seen in the background sowing.
When Ash returns from
his quest with the Necrnomicon and demands to go back to his own time chickening
out of the forthcoming battle Sheila is the only one to have faith in him, when
she is suddenly taken by a winged deadite Ash decides to stay and fight. Sheila
is taken by the winged deadite to Evil Ash who after kissing her turns her into
the possessed Sheila.
After the battle Sheila retuns to normal to give
Ash a fairwell kiss.
See Also:
Possessed Sheila
Shelly is Scotts girlfriend and along with Ash's girlfriend
(Linda) and sister (Cheryl) they travel to the cabin in the woods. While playing
cards she lies to Linda about which cards she's holding untill Cheryl begins to
guess the right cards and reveals she is a deadite. Shelly survives intact with
the battle against Cheryl. While the possessed Cheryl is locked up in the cellar
Shelly returns to her room to get some rest, after not appearing for some time
Scott goes to look for her only to find out she is possessed.
See
Also:
Possessed Shelly
Ash's shotgun,
Remington- 12 Gauge double barrelled remington, S-mart's top of the line.
Retails for about 109.95. With a walnut stock, colbult blue steel, and a hair
trigger. You can find it in the Sporting Goods Department.
Whinchester
Repeater
The tape recorder
plays a pivitol role in the Evil Dead Trilogy, When Scotty and Ash find the tape
recorder belonging to Professor Raymon Knowby in the cellar they bring it up
stairs along with his other possessions. Once it is played it talks about
Professor Knowby finding the Book at Candar Castle and him taking it to the
cabin to translate, it then goes on to recite the passages from the book that
open up the doorway to another realm where the deamons can come to possess the
living.
In Evil Dead2 the tape recorder is found on the desk and played
by Ash, when it is later played by Annie Knowby Professor Raymond Knowby tells
of how his wife became a Candarian deamon and that he killed her, burying her in
the earthen cellar of the cabin. In the flashbacks at the beginning of Army of
Darkness the tape recorder is not mentioned but can be seen in the background.
Eight years after Ash was transported to medieval England he returns to
the cabin with his girlfriend Jenny, but Ash's possessed hand plays the tape
once more allowing the evil to return to the cabin.
Tiny Ashs
See Also:
Evil Ash
Windmill, location.
The Winged
Deadite first appears when Ash travels back to medieval England at the end of
Evil Dead 2, Ash makes short work of this beast using his shotgun and is hailed
as a hero by the knights.
In Army of Darkness once Ash has returned from
his quest for the Book of the Dead the winged Deadite appears from the sky
stealing Sheila and taking her to Evil Ash causing Ash to change his mind about
leaving before the battle.
The Wiseman
is the first to believe that Ash is the one sent from the skies to rid them of
the deadites, while Ash is captured by Lord Arthurs forces the Wiseman takes his
chainsaw and later throws it to Ash in the pit help him battle the Deadites.
After Ash has a new hand made by the Blacksmith the Wiseman sends Ash
out to retrieve the Necronomicon as it is the only thing that will send Ash back
to his own time. Wiseman John gives Ash three words that he must recite (Clatoo,
verata, Nicto) before he picks up the book, however Ash forgets and ends up
raising the Army of the Dead. On his return Ash teaches Wiseman John gunpowder
from a chemistry book in the boot of his car. Once the battle is over Wiseman
John gives Ash a vile from which he must take six drops and recite the same 3
words in order to return to his own time.
At the end of Evil Dead 2
there is a wiseman (possibly the same character but played by someone else) who
hails Ash as the one spoken of in the Necronomicon after Ash kills a winged
Deadite.
Sam Raimi's first film. starring Bruce Campbell.
Within the Woods is
the pilot for the Evil Dead. The film was inspired by a literature assignment
Sam had to do at MSU. This project required him to study the Book of the Dead.
After doing some research, he decided to write a script for a film centered on a
fictional book of the dead. Sam, with friends Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert,
formed a motion picture company entitled Renaissance Pictures to film this
script. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough cash, so Sam rewrote his script
to about 10 pages and raised somewhere around $1,600 and set out to shoot this
shortened version in hopes of snagging potential investors for the longer film.
Their plan was to create a thirty-minute "senseless gore flick" with the help of
special effects artist, Tom Sullivan. The film was shot on Rob Tapert's family
farm during the cold winter of 1978. Bruce of course was given the main role.
Ellen Sandweiss, a college friend, played his girlfriend of the same name, she
would later star with Bruce in Evil Dead 1 as Cheryl, his sister. Scott Spiegal
was also in the film playing a self-titled character as well. Lastly, an unknown
actress by the name of Mary Velenetti played Shelly. Bruce spent exhausting days
in latex and disgusting filth. After a while the latex on Bruce got really
irritating, so Bruce improvised by gnawing the latex skin off. Bruce spent
exhausting days in latex and disgusting filth. After a while the latex on Bruce
got really irritating, so Bruce improvised by gnawing the latex skin off.
A funny anecdote, the hand-cutting scene was not pre-rehearsed. Ellen
was supposed to cut off the entire appendage, but the knife wasn't sharp enough
and didn't slice all the way through, but instead of ruining the take, Bruce
improvised by gnawing the rest of it off. Sam liked it so much, that he decided
to use in the first Evil Dead. A lot of other scenes in Within the Woods that
would later appear throughout the Evil Dead trilogy. Within the Woods did the
trick in gaining support for the first flick, originally titled Book of the
Dead. They were able raise about $90,000, and then it was off to Tennessee where
a cult classic trilogy was born. Please note this film was never released on
video, but there are some bootleg copies of it floating around somewhere out
there. Good news though, Anchor Bay Entertainment is working on a THX version of
Evil Dead on DVD to be released in late 2001 in which they are trying to include
Within the Woods. We'll keep you posted.