The commentaries and newsgroups had been abuzz with rumors about a possible sequel bubbling up from Sam Raimi’s genius. All has been forgiven from his roll with the Spider-Man franchise as, apparently, he has started writing the script for Evil Dead 4. I’m happy that he has enough cash from the Spider-Man movies that he could bankroll another Evil Dead. But mind you, people, he is still on page 7, according to a magazine interview. He frequently works with his elder brother, Ivan, an occasional writer and doctor. With his brother, the script has been progressing. If Sam Raimi gives in to fan pleadings, we might possibly see the movie in 2010. Hardcore horror geeks are more than happy to wait.

Evil Dead 1981
Sam Raimi’s first foray into movie directing produced the cult classic Evil Dead, among others. Although conservatively budgeted at $350,000, the filming took 1.5 years to completion. In a typical Evil Dead fashion, location was in a Tennessee wilderness, in a cabin of course. And from there the story unfolded. The storyline is basically simple but laden with so much horror elements that once the action starts, its one scream fest after another: Five Michigan State University students decided to spend the weekend in an isolated cabin. There they found the Book of the Dead and a tape recording of demonic incantations. Little did they know that playing the tape would unleash the evil force that somehow possesses them one by one. As each person possessed turns into a demon, Ash Williams is forced to fight and dismember his friends as each tries to kill him. At one point, is torn in cutting up his girlfriend, Linda after she tried to stab him. In the final scuffle, as the demons took possession of Scotty and Cheryl, Ash had no choice but to throw the book into the fireplace, as it seemed to be the only solution. As dawn breaks, the demons stopped and started to rot away. Ash then walks outside and thought he had survived the ordeal; until the last remaining demon attacks him as the film ends.

Evil Dead II 1987
That cliffhanger led to Evil Dead II. The film picked up where it left off where Ash and Linda are on a romantic vacation in the cabin. Ash is forced to kill and bury Linda, after she was possessed. Here, Ash had to struggle against the evil force as it comes after him. After the struggle, the evil spirit soon possessed him but morning comes, Ash reverts back to his normal self. Ash had to work with new characters in this film as new pages of the Book of the Dead are discovered and the evil force is again re-unleashed. This is also where Ash had to sever his own hand and had to wear a fitted chainsaw to his wrist. With the help of an incantation, Ash and Annie were able to rid of the evil force but Ash somehow got sucked into the vortex. Ash then finds himself falling from the sky and lands on a rock. He was surrounded by medieval knights. Just as they were about to attack Ash, a Deadite creature swoops down and terrifies the knights. Ash then blows the Deadite’s head off with his shotgun, the knights falls to their knees as Ash had fulfilled part of the prophesy as the hero from Necronomicon.

Evil Dead: Army of Darkness 1993
Evil Dead: Army of Darkness soon followed Ash’s story in medieval England and his collaboration with Lord Arthur’s men. It’s almost the same flee or be possessed formula as the first two Evil Deads but with Ash determined to go back to his own time. Ash has to defeat the Deadites and the Army of Darkness after unwittingly releasing the evil force. He then leads the humans in defeating the Deadites. With a potion made to bring him back to his own time, he returned at the S-Mart store, relaying his medieval adventure and killing a final deadite. There’s another alternate ending to the movie, although it ends on a more negative note. As Ash prepared to take the potion that will take him back to his time, he mistakenly takes 7 drops instead of 6. This made him sleep for 700 years and woke up 100 ahead of his time where the Earth was now an post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Evil Dead followers have their own preferred version on how Evil Dead 4 should turn out and where it would pick up from Army of Darkness. While your guess is as good as mine, whatever path Sam Raimi will take Ash Williams, I will be there with a tub of popcorn and everything will just be “groovy”.

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