Ash has a sister? Where is she?
Ash vs Evil Dead (new tv series)
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The last we saw of her, Cheryl's body was rapidly decomposing, bursting forth demonic hands, and discharging what looked like to me like cheese grits when Ash managed to toss the Necronomicon into the cabin's fireplace. We might reasonably assume her body continued to break down until there was nothing visibly remaining.
I know what you are thinking, "What, Ash burned the book? How can he have it in his possession now?" That's the thing; the "continuity" among the three films and this series is tenuous at best. The first film involves 5 young people, Ash, Linda (his girlfriend), Cheryl (Ash's sister) and another teenage boy and girl. All die except Ash, though his fate is uncertain as he is seemingly attacked in the last shot of the first movie.
"Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn" is in some ways, a sequel. But when it recaps the "highlights" of the earlier film, they are "streamlined" by omitting all characters except Linda and Ash. The events as Ash describes them in this latest episode, Linda's decapitated body dancing in the moonlight, Ash clamping her severed (and still very animated) head in the vise, cutting it with the chainsaw, those are events from ED2. In that film, we don't see him destroy the book (at least, I don't think so).
So, which "version" is correct? That's a good question. Ash talked about "friends", plural, when recounting events to Pablo and we saw footage that showed more people than just Linda. If we were able to "pin down" Sam Raimi, I suspect he'd probably say, "Well, this and this from the first movie happened, but replace these particular sequences with the way they played in the second movie."
It's almost as convoluted as Doctor Who continuity.
Sincerely,
Bill
I know what you are thinking, "What, Ash burned the book? How can he have it in his possession now?" That's the thing; the "continuity" among the three films and this series is tenuous at best. The first film involves 5 young people, Ash, Linda (his girlfriend), Cheryl (Ash's sister) and another teenage boy and girl. All die except Ash, though his fate is uncertain as he is seemingly attacked in the last shot of the first movie.
"Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn" is in some ways, a sequel. But when it recaps the "highlights" of the earlier film, they are "streamlined" by omitting all characters except Linda and Ash. The events as Ash describes them in this latest episode, Linda's decapitated body dancing in the moonlight, Ash clamping her severed (and still very animated) head in the vise, cutting it with the chainsaw, those are events from ED2. In that film, we don't see him destroy the book (at least, I don't think so).
So, which "version" is correct? That's a good question. Ash talked about "friends", plural, when recounting events to Pablo and we saw footage that showed more people than just Linda. If we were able to "pin down" Sam Raimi, I suspect he'd probably say, "Well, this and this from the first movie happened, but replace these particular sequences with the way they played in the second movie."
It's almost as convoluted as Doctor Who continuity.
Sincerely,
Bill
Cheryl, she was the first victim in the 1981 movie. They re-used the idea of the forest inhabiting an initial victim in the 2013 reboot. (Just do yourself a favour and never look up how.)
There were five of them in the first movie. But when they made the sequel, they lost the ability to use footage from it to make Evil Dead 2 in 1987 meaning they reshot the "important" bits a in 7 minute sequence that only had Ash and Linda.
Everything that's followed (games, AoD, comics) have tended to ignore the existance of everyone else and follow from the second one.
Evil Dead: Regeneration (probably the biggest and best of the games that added a lot of lore when they thought they'd never make another movie) has Ash in a mental aslym a couple of miles from the cabin hours after ED2.
Well...except Evil Dead: The Musical which is a parody of the original (and pretty good in it's own right).
In the show, they keep saying things like a generic "everyone" or "everyone you loved" instead of naming them.
Ash's line about an evil copy of himself being crazy and genuinely seeming to think it's a new occurance sounded like a deliberate jab at AoD. It's been an ongoing joke in Evil Dead productions for years to pretend it never happened either now.
Bruce himself just keeps telling fans that a lot of the movies take place in different universes and we're seeing alternate versions of events. That the book is the one constant and possibly even just "one book" across all of them (explaining why it can't "die" in any of them).
And let's not bring their home indie "Within the Woods" proto-movie into this, the film the knife is from originally.
It gets a bit odd too because while they might not have the rights to Army of Darkness, ED2 still ended with Ash and the Oldsmobile thrown into the medieval past. I'm assuming they are ignoring that as well.
Thanks for the info on Cheryl. I haven't seen the first movie. Too scary for me.
It is straight up horror and shot to the top of the UK "video nasty" list back in the 80's. The reboot is up there in the top goriest movies in the last...ever.
I have all four on bluray, but those are the two that I tend to watch the least. I say watch, I mean looking at them kind of sideways for most of it.
A friend of mine is as big a fan of the movies as me. We had a movie night with a few other friends, got chatting about so someone suggested we find the on youtube on his big screen TV. We started with the first one, just two of us watching it and everyone else hiding.
Anyhoo: Ep 9 Promo
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhxFosNsRW0[/yt]
I have all four on bluray, but those are the two that I tend to watch the least. I say watch, I mean looking at them kind of sideways for most of it.
A friend of mine is as big a fan of the movies as me. We had a movie night with a few other friends, got chatting about so someone suggested we find the on youtube on his big screen TV. We started with the first one, just two of us watching it and everyone else hiding.
Anyhoo: Ep 9 Promo
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhxFosNsRW0[/yt]
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No thanks. I know my limits concerning horror. It doesn't end well for me.
Yay! Ruby's back!
Yay! Ruby's back!
Optimism, captain.
I meant Fisher, but yeah, it says Ruby is in every episode, too.
It probably gets muddled because the actors are probably listed in the opening credits regardless if they are actually in the episode.
That's true, they are.
A new clip for this weekend's AvED. 
http://www.tvinsider.com/article/61915/ash-vs-evil-dead-ash-face-worst-fears-and-twin-video/
http://www.tvinsider.com/article/61915/ash-vs-evil-dead-ash-face-worst-fears-and-twin-video/
Between this and the Doctor Who Christmas special, it's going to be a fun Christmas weekend!
Here a hilarious mashup between AvED and Star Wars. 
https://twitter.com/GroovyBruce/status/677231107511853057
https://twitter.com/GroovyBruce/status/677231107511853057
No Twitter hints that she may return....
Merry Christmas, you primitive screwheads!
A very Merry Deadite Christmas to you all. 
Are we allowed to speculate if there are no spoiler to be had?
I don't think Ruby is a demon.
I don't think that thing on her wrist was a melted watch when she rose like a Phoenix from the ashes since it looks the same pre and post fires of hell.
I think Ruby has an artifact that lets her pass between hell and earth.
If so... then maybe Ruby could bring a recently deceased Amanda back.
That thought comforts me cuz I really DONT want a dead-ite version of Fisher to terrorize the ghost-beaters.
Both the original and reboot Necronomicons allowed trials or ordeals by which a soul could be returned to it's host body, expelling the Kandarian back to hell, but only if the body was "intact" and possession occured peremortrum.
If the body is already dead, allowing the Kandarian to enter a soulless vessel, nothing can be put back in again. There are some cosmic rules in place apparently that once actual death has happened, it's not up to them anymore (I'm guessing Evil Ash knows this).
In the reboot a Kandrian goes one step further with this idea. When the host body has taken too much damage to be of use, it deliberately leaves to allow Natalies soul to return, so she can simply suffer and die moments later.
If the body is already dead, allowing the Kandarian to enter a soulless vessel, nothing can be put back in again. There are some cosmic rules in place apparently that once actual death has happened, it's not up to them anymore (I'm guessing Evil Ash knows this).
In the reboot a Kandrian goes one step further with this idea. When the host body has taken too much damage to be of use, it deliberately leaves to allow Natalies soul to return, so she can simply suffer and die moments later.
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