“Took 36 Hours Straight”: How Underrated Evil Dead Sequel Created Its Undead Army Detailed By VFX Supervisor (2024)

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Why was there never an Evil Dead 4? ›

Despite plenty of groovy, gory moments across three series, a ratings drop towards the end of the third season meant the Deadites got the axe for good despite its cliffhanger ending.

Campbell later described the filming process as nearly "twelve weeks of mirthless exercise in agony", though he allowed that he did manage to have fun while on set. On January 23, 1980, filming was finished and almost every crew member left the set to return home, with Campbell staying with Raimi.

Writer/director Lee Cronin has told Empire magazine that 6500 liters (or 1717 gallons) of fake blood were sprayed and spilled during the production of his contribution to the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rise, and some of that blood can be seen in the newly unveiled image from the film, which features a blood-coated ...

Evil Dead II was shot in Wadesboro, North Carolina and Detroit, Michigan in 1986, and featured extensive stop-motion animation and prosthetic makeup effects created by a team of artists that included Mark Shostrom, Greg Nicotero, Robert Kurtzman and Tom Sullivan, the latter of whom returned from the original film.

The film also ran into trouble in other countries. The original video was quickly banned in Finland after its initial home release in 1984. West Germany also took great exception to the film, and banned it not long after its theatrical release in 1984, in spite of initially passing it.

The Evil Dead Was Banned for Graphic Depictions Of Violence

The Evil Dead opens with five young people -- Ashley “Ash” Williams, his sister Cheryl, Ash's girlfriend Linda, their friend Scott and Scott's girlfriend Shelly -- on a trip to a cabin in the woods.

That then led to the 2023 movie Evil Dead Rise, which might be the most graphically terrifying and hardcore movie in the entire series, almost completely devoid of all humor.

David sedates and buries Mia but after hearing her heartbeat stop, digs her back up and attempts to resuscitate her with a homemade defilibrator. He finds Mia alive and enters the cabin to retrieve his car keys, but Eric's possessed corpse stabs him. David shoots a gasoline can, killing himself and Eric.

During production, Fischbach confirmed that Iron Lung will contain the most fake blood of any horror film, beating 2013 film Evil Dead's 50,000 US gallons (190,000 L); during filming, he went to the hospital due to getting too much fake blood in his eyes.

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Cronin, the Irish writer and director of “Evil Dead Rise,” the fifth feature installment in the cult horror series, lights up when discussing gore on set. “We used 6,500 liters [1,717 gallons] of blood on the movie,” he said. “That is real, sticky, cooked movie blood.

While the story isn't firmly connected to that of the original trilogy (which was followed up when star Bruce Campbell returned for the three-season series Ash vs. Evil Dead) or the 2013 remake Evil Dead, it needs a lot of blood in order to fit in with both branches of the franchise.

In an attempt to attain an R rating for the film (the first The Evil Dead (1981) was released unrated), fluid spit out by the Possessed Henrietta was variously black and green instead of blood red.

Because Sam Raimi couldn't get the rights to his own movie, Evil Dead 2 was made as a "re-quel", which means that they essentially remade The Evil Dead with new people. Campbell states that people thought Ash would be dumb to return to the same cabin with different people, but this wasn't the case.

Evil Dead II (1987)

Picking up from the ending of the first film, Ash is carried off by the demonic force and briefly possessed, released from the spirit by the light of dawn and falling unconscious.

Evil Dead Rise is a 2023 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Lee Cronin. It is a standalone entry and the fifth installment in the Evil Dead film series.

'Evil' season 4, which is also the show's final season, is all set to stream on Paramount+ from May 23. "Evil" ventures into the depths of darkness, exploring unsettling themes such as demonic possession, police brutality, and corruption.

During an interview with Collider, Bruce Campbell, one of the biggest stars in the franchise, explained why the show couldn't move forward, stating that it had to do with the fact that audiences weren't very familiar with the platform it was released on.

Why is it officially titled "Army of Darkness" rather than "Evil Dead III" like the previous installments? Universal wanted to market the film as a stand-alone feature for audiences who had not seen The Evil Dead or Evil Dead II which is also the reason for the prologue.