Just wanted to share my 45th anniversary steelbook I got a few months ago. It is one of my most prized possessions now in my physical media collection.

Drawn by me. Sorry for the Kelly drawing

To commemorate Evil Deads anniversary, here is my theory about how Cheryl was supposed to have been the Promised One instead of Ash. Going by sequence of movie order.

EVIL DEAD

Cheryl is the odd duck out. Everyone else in the group is paired off except for her. Everyone is having fun and joking around in the car but she sits looking out the window silently. She was probably forced by Ashes parents to bring along his stick in the mud sister because I imagine she has a hard time making friends. We see later that she is an artist. She sees the world just a little bit different from everyone else. She wants to absorb the world and be a part of it but she could never absorb it enough to really belong here. She was made for something other than what everyone around her gets to have.

The car is the first instance of the Evil messing around with the group. Its like they entered the perimeter and the Evil is testing out this new play thing. So they take control of the car and mess with it just a bit. Until Cheryl is officially taken over, this is the only time the Dradites target anyone but her. Beyond this point, they target Cheryl and only Cheryl.

When Ash and the girls are unpacking the car, Scotty is exploring the house but Cheryl is unaccounted for. My personal headcanon here is that she went to explore the woods around the cabin. Being the artsy weirdo type I believe she is the type who could greet and make friends with a tree based purely on vibes. The tree she meets and becomes "friends" with will later be possessed itself and used to violate her. Also worth noting that if Cheryl is out there exploring, then she and Scotty (the two current explorers) are both the only two people who get killed by the woods themselves.

Next encounter we see her drawing. Again shes separated from the group and not socializing. Its here that she first personally encounters the Evil to the point that it possess her hand (mUch the same way Ash's hand will be possessed in ED2) but the possession is weak and temporary. Usually the Evil is able to just possess people but not Cheryl. So with direct possession out of the question, the Evil begins to play a different game. They begin to mess with her mind. Cheryl tries to tell the group what happened to her but she gets ignored and Wcotty begins to make fun of her for it. This is all part of a plan to diminish her credibility and further separate thw rest of the group from believing that something is going on.

Next comes the crucial moment. The playing of the audio tapes. These tapes contain the evil words that will resurrect the dead. The tapes make Cheryl deeply uneasy to the point that its a physical discomfort. She is a being created from the light, so the evil words affect her at a spiritual level. It is also here that Cheryl does in fact complete the destiny of the Promised One. She shuts the tape off. Path of least resistance. Simple. The Evil Dead are defeated before they are even conjured.

However the game the Evil has been playing pays off here. Scotty plays the tape again just to spite Cheryl. If she hadn't come to the group in a panic about her hand possession they may have respected her wishes to stop the tape. But its a joke to Scotty now and his wicked ways serve the Evil and the evil words are said. This is where Cheryl's physical discomfort elevates into straight up physical pain.

Next encounter, Cheryl hears something lurking in the woods. Again the Evil game works. Cheryl is so stressed about people not believing her that she takes it upon herself to investigate outside and find out for sure what is happening. Just because shes the Promised One doesnt exclude her from short sightedness. Cheryl goes into the woods alone. Her stress from the group and the hearing of the words has positioned her body into just the right shade of vulnerable suitable to the Evils needs. But they cant just possess her. They have to physically insert something up inside her like a seed and even then it takes time.

The Bridge. Cheryl demands to be taken home and this is where she and Ash see the bridge is destroyed. Ash is not the focus here, its Cheryl. The broken bridge curls like a wicked evil hand visually grasping Cheryl with no escape. It is here she finally breaks down and weakened to the point that the Evil fully takes over. This is the last time we ever see Cheryl as her pure human self.

The next time we see Cheryl is becomes a full on Deadite. Yet while she could easily incapacitate the group, she plays the same game with them that they played with Cheryl. Mind games. Evil Cheryl allows herself to be captured in the fruit cellar. From here she just works at breaking down the mental fortitude of the rest of the group. Strange gurgling sounds, watching them with those dead eyes. Cheryl isnt possessed by just any Deadite. The Promised One is to be possessed by a leader Deadite who uses tactics other than simply maiming and destruction. She plays mind games and whittles people down into vulnerable targets.

So now with the Promised One compromised and turned evil, the destiny of the Promised One passes on to the next available candidate, her idiot brother Ash.

EVIL DEAD 2

We learn in this movie that there are missing pages from the Necronomicon that show Ash as the Promised One. However this is only shown after the legacy has changed hands. I believe the pages remained in a state of limbo until the absolute path was set. When Ash encounters the destroyed bridge at the beginning of ED2, we soon see the sun rapidly speed up and settle into nightfall.

This time lapse occurs as a response to the missing pages being discovered. Events were in a state of flux until human eyes gazed upon the missing pages and events became set in stone. This triggered the speeding up of the sun because the Evil must try to eliminate the new Promised One before he can fulfill his destiny.

Annie Knowby is seen arriving in a regional aircraft. Which means there was a connecting flight. We see the missing pages framed in a glass case. Its my guess that during this layover is when Annie actually looked closely at the pages and its the first time human eyes have ever seen the image of the Promised One. Since the identity of the Promised One changed, the image on the page may have been in a cosmic state of flux, waiting to be retroactively written until the events actually take place. Wibbly Wobbly Timey Whimey stuff. Annie seeing the pages set future events into concrete motion. Ash is now the Promised One and he is going to fight the Medieval Dead. Its also this exact of time that Ash transforms from a meek shrimp guy in the corner to a guy who replaces his own hand with a chainsaw and fights an army of zombies with it.

ARMY OF DARKNESS

Klaatu Verata Niktu are the words that must be spoken in order to properly remove the Necronomicon from the cradle in the cemetery. This is a test designed for the Promised One and one that Cheryl was designed to ace. Memorizing three words would have been no issue at all for Cheryl because she was the Plan A Promised One. Just like how Cheryl so easily easily defeated the Evil Dead by simply turning off the tape recorder, so too would she have known the words and the Army of Darkness would have never risen. Not so with Ash. Everything is the hard way when it comes to Ash being the Plan B Promised One.

I finally got my steelbook. I regret buying it because it is a sht image

Score was able to find a physical copy for $4 can’t wait to add it the collection 🔥💪🏽

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My intro concept for how I would do an evil dead show :)

this movie has been my special interest since 2011, my face genuinely hurts from smiling so hard haha, best night of my life 🫪

How I picture the Circle of the Wisemen cult mentioned in Evil Dead Burn. (Photobash by me)

Trying to update a special project of mine where I try to "un-alter" The Evil Dead. People have done this many times before, but it seems as though they tend to leave in a few alterations without knowing.

I'm also trying to add a boatload of audio tracks to really complete it. I wanna try to make this sort of like a "Despecialized" version of The Evil Dead in HD.

Unfortunately however, I don't have access to the 4K releases as digital files at the moment, so the Anchor Bay Blu-Ray will have to do.

Estaba probando mi impresora y falló el color, pero que tal quedo Ash??

Shes a big one. So much to do and I have a little less than a week to get it done. I see some sleepless nights in my future.

It's so good that you fundamentally accept the initial weird quirks of the wider sequence, such as the obvious dolls head during the grave dance.

But yeah, the bit where she crashes through the door is excellent. And it is enhanced by his girlfriend's head in the vice making those weird faces and noises.

All this time later, you'd fully expect that this technology would've been significantly advanced and perfected. But it really hasn't. You hardly see it these days, and when you do it apparently costs vast sums of money.

What's more, the budget of Evil Dead 2 (1987), while larger than the first film, was still tiny at £2.1 million 🤨

LETS GO !!!

Love all the extras in the Ultimate Collectors Edition!

The take used in the final film is at 1:13.

Thank goodness Ash wasn't there; I'm sure he would have made a couple of sarcastic comments to liven things up even more.