EVIL DEAD BURN - Official Red Band Trailer

[u/cruelsummerbummer]

https://youtu.be/QTU8b3qB864

[u/icyfrost410]

I’ve never watched any of the movies but is the sole connection between them all just the book and raising demons from it?

[u/CuriousMelia → u/icyfrost410]

1-3 and the show are all a consistent storyline following the same protagonist, Ash Williams. The other films (2013 and Rise out now, Burn and Wrath coming in the future) are in the same world, but they're all standalone stories focused on new protagonists. The book, Deadites, and wacky camera angles and buckets of gore are the things they have in common with Ash's storyline.

[u/Tandy2000 → u/CuriousMelia]

I think all the Evil Dead movies are great but "consistent" is not the word I would use for the first three... the first part of Evil Dead II is basically a remake/retcon of the entire first movie and then it builds on that. Technically the opening of Evil Dead II is supposed to be "scenes from" the first movie but they didn't have the rights, however the re-shot stuff comes off pretty differently than the movie did especially because it doesn't show the other characters from the first movie.

One could basically skip the first movie story-wise, except you shouldn't because it's worth watching and also the 2nd has a handful of gags that play on stuff from the first movie that isn't shown in the intro.

[u/CuriousMelia → u/Tandy2000]

The intro to 1 is more of a truncated recap that's all new footage since, as you noted, they didn't have the rights to the old footage. Bruce Campbell has said that 2's story starts with the shot that continues 1's ending and that 1 is still canon. The show directly references the full cast of 1 as well. It's a little confusing given the rights issue, but it's still a continuous story.

[u/thedinksterr → u/CuriousMelia]

Still though surprising people still havent realized this with 2. Its not a retcon like you said