Director Sam Raimi said that a fourth Evil Dead is in the works!
While speaking at the San Diego Comic-Con panel for his upcoming horror film, Drag Me To Hell, Raimi said that he’d love to do another Evil Dead film with actor Bruce Campbell and that he’d like to start working on it next week with his brother Ivan Raimi.
That’s all Raimi revealed about his plans for a new Evil Dead film.
It had been rumored that Raimi wanted to do a follow-up to his original campy horror film trilogy, but there has not been any official plans until now.
The trilogy — Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness — starred popular B-movie actor Bruce Campbell, and judging by Raimi’s comments, he’d love to get Campbell on board for a fourth film. When referring to his brother, Raimi is most likely referring to work on a script for Evil Dead 4, since Ivan co-wrote Army of Darkness with him (Ivan also co-wrote Drag Me To Hell with him).
source: geeksofdoom
For those who don’t know what the Evil Dead trilogy is, read on!
Within The Woods
In January 1979 Bruce Campbell was a college dropout who had just quit his job as a taxicab driver. Sam Raimi was studying literature at Michigan State University with Robert Tapert finishing his economics degree. While putting the finishing touches in It’s Murder! Tapert suggested doing a feature length film to Raimi. Raimi felt it to be impossible citing that they could never pull off the funding. Campbell didn’t mind stating that “I could always move back home.” Tapert was fearing that he would become an expert in fisheries/wildlife while Raimi was afraid that he would go back to work at his dad’s home furnishing store. These were the practical reasons that convinced the three to put forth a feature length film. The three were highly valued fans of the comedy genre, though they decided not to do such a film as they felt “a feature-length yuck fest just didn’t compute.” To do the film as a horror was put forth after they were inspired by a well noted scene from It’s Murder. This moved Raimi to write the short film Clockwork. The three felt the end result was very effective and represented a new direction that their films could take, that of a semi-successful horror film.[2]
This would later lead to research of low-budget horror films at the local drive-in theater. The many films that they watched were the “two films for two dollars,” allowing them the chance to document the behavior of what would become their target audience. Campbell quoted, “the message was very clear: Keep the pace fast and furious, and once the horror starts, never let up. ‘The gorier the merrier’ became our prime directive.” Films that were witnessed amongst them included Massacre at Central High and Revenge of the Cheerleaders. The idea to do a “prototype” was commissioned, to prove not only to themselves, but also to potential investors that they were capable of doing a full length horror film. The same year, at Michigan State, Raimi had been studying H. P. Lovecraft and was most impressed with Necronomicon, or simply The Book of the Dead. From these rough concepts, he concocted a short story where a group of four friends unwittingly dig up an ancient Indian burial ground and unleash horrific spirits and demons.[3] In the spring of 1979 filming of Within the Woods started over a three day weekend on a budget of $1,600.Within the Woods, as well as serving as a prototype, had impressed the filmmakers. For a marketing strategy a screening was arranged at their former high school, with a positive response.
Films
Within the Woods
Raimi, longtime friend Bruce Campbell, and other associates shot this movie on Super 8 mm film in an effort to raise money to produce a feature-length version of it. The full length version was titled The Evil Dead and garnered a huge cult following and spawned 2 sequels and an off-broadway musical.
While it is not technically a part of the series, Within the Woods was the first creation in what would become the Evil Dead universe. It was made to secure funds to make The Evil Dead properly.
Within the Woods is very similar to The Evil Dead in terms of plot devices, pacing, and effects. A group of four friends, Bruce (Bruce Campbell), Ellen (Ellen Sandweiss), Shelly (Mary Valenti) and Scotty (Scott Spiegel) rent a cabin in the woods.
The story begins with Bruce and Ellen going on a picnic together. While walking towards the field where they are going to have the picnic, Bruce tells Ellen that the place they are staying “used to be part of an old Indian burial ground” and it was “very sacred and holy.” She nervously asks him if it was cursed, but Bruce assures her that it will be fine because according to Bruce, “you’re only cursed by the evil spirits if you violate the graves of the dead” and that they were only going to have a picnic.
Upon reaching the fiel
d, Bruce sends Ellen off to get firewood while he digs a fire pit. While digging the pit, Bruce digs up an old cross and an Indian ceremonial dagger, presumably belonging to a medicine man. Bruce takes the dagger to show Ellen, and tells her a legend about an “Indian spirit of the woods” that watches over medicine men’s graves, and they fall asleep. However, the fire pit erupts with a flame that spontaneously started.
After Ellen awakes, she notices that Bruce is missing. She decides that he went back to the cabin, and walks back by herself. However, she trips on a tree and happens upon Bruce’s horribly mutilated body. She panics, and realizes that something is watching her. She flees back to the cabin while being hunted by an evil spirit (a la Evil Dead). When she gets back to the cabin, she tells Scotty and Shelly about finding Bruce’s body. Scotty tells Shelly that Bruce may be hurt and goes off to find him.
A while later, Scotty finds the picnic basket covered in blood and he drops it in shock. Back at the cabin, Shelly tells Ellen that she will shine a light in the woods to see if she can find Bruce and Scotty. However, she barely gets out of the front door before being brutally murdered by a possessed Bruce and being impaled to the ground by the cross. Bruce turns to Ellen, demanding in a demonic voice: “Join us.” Ellen slams the front door on Bruce, who then tries to find another way in. Ellen looks around the cabin for a weapon and finds two knives, just in time to catch someone trying to get in. The door opens, and Ellen stabs at the person: Scotty. She backs away in shock and sees Bruce trying to get in through the back door. She closes the door on Bruce (after hitting Scotty a few times with the door), and Scotty tells her to get a gun he had in the basement.
After finding the gun and returning upstairs, Ellen finds Scotty impaled through the chest with the cross and a window open. She is confronted by Bruce, where she cuts his right hand off. He continues to chase her through the cabin, before catching her. In the struggle, Ellen finds Bruce’s hand (with the dagger still firmly in its grasp) and stabs him with it. Bruce’s body goes into death throes and seems to die. However, as Ellen goes to the phone, Bruce’s body gets back up and Ellen attacks him with an ax. She manages to dismember Bruce’s body and she sits next to it in a state of shock. However, just before the end of the movie, Scotty gets up, and is shown to be possessed by the spirit before turning towards Ellen.
The Evil Dead
Released in 1981, this is the first official film in the series. It introduces the series’ protagonist, Ash, and the Book of the Dead and what it brings with it. The Evil Dead is a horror movie with some elements of black comedy.
The Evil Dead (also known as: Evil Dead, The Book of the Dead, Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead and The Evil Dead, the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Horror) is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss and Betsy Baker. The film tells the story of five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in the woods. Their vacation turns into a nightmare when they find an audiotape that is the key to unlocking evil spirits.
Five Michigan State University students venture into the hills and mountains of Tennessee to spend a weekend in an isolated cabin. There they find the Book of the Dead (a Babylonian and Sumerian text, unrelated to the Egyptian Book of the Dead), otherwise known as the Naturan Demanto (renamed the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis in the sequels). While searching the basement of the cabin, the students find and play a tape recording of demonic incantations from the book, unwittingly resurrecting the slumbering demons that thirst for revenge. The characters are then possessed one by one, beginning with Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss), after she is lured into the forest by the Evil Force at night. Alone and far from the safety of the cabin, the woods come alive in a snake-like fashion and brutally rape her. Cheryl makes it home to the cabin but nobody believes her. Her brother, Ash (Bruce Campbell), decides to drive her into town where she can stay the night. They discover that the only bridge is completely destroyed and the supports are bent into the shape of a hand. Soon thereafter, Cheryl becomes a demon and stabs Linda (Betsy Baker) in the ankle with a pencil. They lock her in the fruit-cellar, but afterward Shelly (Theresa Tilly) becomes possessed and attacks Scotty (Hal Delrich), who dismembers her with an axe. They wrap the dismembered body-parts in a blanket and bury them, after which Scotty leaves to find a trail out of the woods.
Ash goes to check on Linda, but finds that she too has become possessed. Scotty returns, but has suffered massive injuries inflicted by the trees. Before losing consciousness he tells Ash there is a trail in the woods. After Linda tricks Ash by seemingly returning to normal, Ash drags her outside. He goes back to check on Scotty, but finds that he died from his injuries. Linda later returns and tries to stab Ash, but she is stabbed through the chest by a dagger. Ash drags her outside to cut her up with a chainsaw, but finds that he cannot bring himself to do it, and simply buries her instead. She rises from the grave and, after a violent struggle, Ash beheads her with a shovel. He returns to find the cellar door flown open. He hears a noise from Shelly and Scott’s bedroom. With the shotgun, he goes in to investigate and suspects Cheryl may be in the closet. Cheryl jumps at the window of which a demon had earlier broken through to possess Shelly and tries to take the shotgun from Ash, grabbing at it wildly. Ash shoots her in the chest, but it seems to have no effect. Ash then proceeds to barricade both the front and back doors. He runs back into the cellar to find a box of shotgun shells and experiences a strange series of events including the cellar filling with blood and hearing voices. Cheryl tries to attack Ash through the door, but he shoots her and then barricades the door.
Meanwhile, Scotty’s dead body suddenly revives to reveal that the evil spirits have now possessed him as well, only to have his eyes gouged out by Ash after a brief struggle. Ash notices that The Book of the Dead has fallen near the fireplace and is starting to burn. Ash notices that Scotty’s body is starting to burn as well, giving an allusion that disposal of the book into the fire will also destroy the demons. Before he can reach it, however, Cheryl successfully breaks in through the front door and easily knocks him to the floor. Scotty then pins Ash to the floor while Cheryl grabs a fireplace poker and repeatedly hits Ash in the back with it. Ash manages to grab the book after several attempts, using the necklace he had given to Linda earlier in the film, and throws it directly into the blazing flames just as Cheryl raises the fireplace poker to hit him again. The demons immediately stop, almost completely inanimate, and begin to rot away as dawn breaks, leaving Ash to be the only survivor. He heads outside and stands there for a while, thinking he has survived the ordeal; but the last remaining demon speeds through the forest, breaks its way through the cabin doors, and attacks Ash as the film ends.
Evil Dead II
Released in 1987, this is the film that introduced the series’ trademark humor, while expanding on the horror themes of Ash’s dealings with the Necronomicon and demons.
The film opens with a very rough re-play of the important events of the first film. Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda take a romantic vacation to a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. While in the cabin, Ash plays a tape of an archeology professor (the cabin’s previous inhabitant), reciting passages from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (or “Book of the Dead”), which had been discovered during an archaeological dig. The recorded incantation unleashes an evil force which soon takes possession of Linda. Ash is forced to kill and bury her. Something remains and continues to terrorize Ash.
It is here that the film picks up where its predecessor left off. The unseen evil spirit lifts Ash off the ground and tosses him into a tree where he is possessed by a demon. However, morning soon approaches and Ash reverts back to his normal self. Ash then tries to escape the woods in his car, but finds the entrance bridge to the area has been destroyed.
Suddenly, night falls and Ash senses that a demon is after him, so he drives back to the cabin where he crashes and flies through the windshield. Ash is then chased throughout the cabin, portrayed on-screen from the point of view of the demon. Eventually, Ash manages to escape from the beast’s sight, and the demon, unaware of his whereabouts, retreats back into the woods. Meanwhile, two archeologists, Annie and Ed, come back with newly discovered pages from the Book of the Dead, but find that the bridge is out, so they enlist the help of Jake and Bobby Jo.
Back at the cabin, Ash notices Linda’s dead body coming back to life in a twisted dance, but Linda abandons her gyrations and attacks Ash soon after reviving. Ash seemingly awakens believing he had been dreaming, but then Linda’s head falls into his lap and bites his hand. After using a chainsaw to finally eliminate Linda, Ash turns the chainsaw upon himself, severing his possessed hand when it begins to attack him. However, the detached, possessed hand takes on a life of its own, and Ash tries to destroy it with a shotgun.
Ash then shoots through the door and nearly hits Bobby Jo. Annie, Ed, Jake, and Bobby Jo begin to think that Ash killed Annie’s parents, so they throw Ash into the cellar. The new group begin to play the rest of Professor Knowby’s tape recordings and accidentally unleash the demon form of his wife, Henrietta, in the cellar. Luckily, they manage to save Ash and lock the cellar, but Ed gets injured and later becomes a demon. Ash eventually kills Ed. The disembodied spirit of the Professor appears before Ash and the others, telling them that the pages Annie possesses are the key to dispelling the evil dead. Bobby Jo then discovers Ash’s possessed hand holding hers, and runs into the forest out of fear. She is attacked and killed by the trees.
Jake goes hysterical, while Annie and Ash see a drawing in the book of a hero said to have dispelled the evil, appearing as a figure with a chainsaw-like hand and a “boomstick”. Filled with worry for Bobby Jo, Jake picks up the shotgun and forces them to go after her. Ash tries to convince Jake that Bobby Jo is dead, but Jake grows furious and throws the pages into the cellar. They go into the woods only to discover that the trail has disappeared. A demon rushes them, again possessing Ash, and throws Jake into a tree, hitting his head. Ash chases Annie back to the cabin. she grabs the bone dagger from the first movie, and accidentally stabs Jake trying to get back into the cabin.
She pulls Jake’s body in, then shuts the door. Ash pounds on it, then suddenly stops. She takes the dagger out of Jake, then drags him to the cellar door, where Henrietta attacks and kills him. Ash attacks Annie, accidentally ripping her necklace off her neck. As she lays unconscious, Ash looks at the necklace, and reverts to his normal self after being reminded of Linda. After convincing a terrified Annie that he is alright, they agree to vanquish the evil. Ash and Annie go out to the woodshed, where they modify the chainsaw and attach it with clamps to Ash’s severed wrist and fit him with a holster, which he fills with a sawed-off shotgun.
Ash and Annie return to the house, where Ash enters the cellar and finds the pages strewn about the floor, seemingly leading him deeper into the darkness. Annie looks upon the cellar door when Henrietta leaps out and attacks her. Ash emerges from the cellar and begins fighting with Henrietta and gains the upper hand, until Henrietta transforms into a more demonic form. Ash is saved when Annie distracts Henrietta by singing a lullaby that Henrietta sang to her when she was a girl. While Henrietta is focused on Annie, Ash uses his chainsaw to decapitate the demon then deals the final blow by delivering a shotgun blast to its head. Annie takes the pages and begins translating the text to manifest the evil, which appears in the form of a large bloody head covered in the faces of those it has possessed. While Ash fends off the creature, Annie recites the incantation to rid the earth of the evil. A large vortex opens up just outside the cabin, gravitating everything around into it, including Ash’s car, a large tree, and the evil itself. Annie is then stabbed in the back by Ash’s severed hand. With her dying breaths, she speaks the last words of the incantation and Ash is sucked into the vortex before it disappears.
Ash suddenly falls from the sky and lands on a large block of rock. He looks up and finds himself surrounded by medieval knights. The knights are about to attack Ash when a winged demonic creature swoops down from the sky, terrifying the knights as they scatter. Ash reaches for his shotgun and blows the creature’s head off. The knights gather around Ash as he prepares to defend himself. One knight then lifts his face plate and declares, “Hail he who hath fallen from the sky to deliver us from the terror of the Deadites!” The army of medieval warriors then fall to their knees and begin chanting “Hail” as Ash realizes that he is in fact the prophesied “Hero from the Sky.” The movie closes with Ash shaking his head in disbelief and screaming “NOOO!” as the camera pans out to show the large army that now awaits Ash’s command.
Army of Darkness
Released in 1993, this is the last film in the trilogy, taking Ash back in time to England in 1300 AD. The movie has horror attributes, but is based mainly on humor and action. This time the evil creatures are referred to as deadites.
After a brief flashback to Evil Dead II, which explains the Necronomicon and how Ash got to where he is, Ash lands in Medieval England, where he is almost immediately captured by Lord Arthur’s men, who suspect him to be an agent for Duke Henry, with whom Arthur is at war. He is enslaved along with the captured Henry, his gun and chainsaw confiscated, and is taken to a castle. Ash is thrown in a pit where he fights off a Deadite and regains his weapons from Arthur’s wise man. After demanding Henry and his men be set free, Ash is celebrated as a hero, and also grows attracted to the sister of one of Arthur’s fallen knights, Sheila.
According to the wise man, the only way Ash can return to his time is to retrieve the Necronomicon. After bidding goodbye to Sheila, Ash starts his search for the Necronomicon. Entering a haunted forest, an unseen force pursues Ash through the woods. Fleeing, Ash ducks into a windmill where he crashes into a mirror. The small reflections of Ash climb out from the shattered mirror and torture him. One of the reflections dives down Ash’s throat and uses his body to become a life-sized copy of Ash, after which Ash kills him and buries him.
When he arrives at the Necronomicon’s location, he finds three books instead of one. Ash eventually finds the real one and attempts to say the magic phrase that will send him home. However, forgetting the last word he tries to trick the book by mumbling the missing word, but that unleashes the Evil Dead. Ash simply grabs the book and rushes back to the castle, while the dead rise from graves all around. During Ash’s panicked ride back, Ash’s copy rises from his grave and unites the Deadites into the Army of Darkness.
Despite causing the predicament faced by the Medieval humans, Ash initially demands to be returned to his own time. However, Sheila is captured by a flying Deadite, and then turned into a Deadite. Ash becomes determined to lead the humans against the skeletal Deadite army. Reluctantly, the people agree to join Ash. Using scientific knowledge from textbooks in the trunk of his 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, plus enlisting the help of Duke Henry, Ash successfully leads the humans to defeat “Bad Ash” and his army of Deadites and save Sheila. After this, he is brought back to his own time using a potion made from the book.
The final scene begins with Ash back at the S-Mart store, telling a co-worker all about his adventure back in time, and how he could have been king. After this, a deadite starts wreaking havoc on the store (it is implied that he again raised the dead by saying the wrong words needed to travel through time), and Ash slays the creature. The film ends with Ash in voice over saying, “Sure I could have been King, but in my own way, I am a king.” He then says out loud, while kissing a female employee, “Hail to the King, baby!”
Possible sequel
It has been rumored for years that there will be an Evil Dead 4. Sam Raimi has stated in an interview that he would like to make this film, as soon as he has completed work on Spider-Man 3.In an article released May 3, 2007, he stated he was trying to get his brother Ivan Raimi, who co-wrote Army of Darkness, to write the screenplay with him. On July 26, 2008, Sam Raimi stated that Evil Dead 4 was “in the wheelhouse” during the 2008 Comic Con. In March 2009, Raimi confirmed that an Evil Dead script was being worked on with Ivan Raimi.
Another popular rumor is that the sequel to Freddy vs. Jason will include Ash, and possibly be named Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash. Raimi has decided against it, as he would not have creative control over the character.
In the unlockable bonus content of Evil Dead : Regeneration, Bruce Campbell says the rumor of Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash is “partly true”, claiming that basically there are 3 separate franchises arguing “No We’re The Better Franchise!” “No, No YOU Suck!” so he says with this debate constantly on going it might happen, but not in the foreseeable future.
source: wikipedia
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