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May 7, 2013 - Evil Dead Fan Trip Of A Lifetime Write-up & EvilDeadChainsaws.com

Evil Dead Fan Trip Of A Lifetime; a full & detailed write-up of my December 2012 visit from the UK to The Evil Dead & Evil Dead II's shooting locations the USA, has been added to the Features section. It's taken some time appear on the site, as the display case for the Evil Dead souvenirs featured on the bottom of that page has only just been completed.

Many will be keeping tabs on the re-opening of EvilDeadChainsaws.com, well, it's still on course and the Cabin model saw should be on sale again roughly around the end of this month. As the 'Workshed' photo backdrop no longer exists, taking new chainsaw photos which fit with the site will be tricky until a new backdrop is built, but intermediate rough photos of some sort will be up there so at least people will be able to see what they're actually buying.

April 15, 2013 - Graham Humphreys, A Magazine, & EvilDeadChainsaws.com

Firstly, You can now head over to the Features section to read an interview conducted with Graham Humphreys. Graham is an illustrator and graphic designer based in London, United Kingdom. He worked on the UK promotional campaigns for The Evil Dead & Evil Dead II during the '80s, and his artwork for both is still the most iconic and well known around the world. He has his own website which you can visit at GrahamHumphreys.com.

A related item; a new magazine scan; Video Times - March 1983 has been added to the the Magazines page. This magazine has a number of interesting items, including a full colour The Evil Dead Palace Pictures VHS release advert, and a competition which is basically the Palace Pictures competition postcard (which came with the 1983 The Evil Dead UK VHS release) written up as a printed piece.

Finally many of you may know that EvilDeadChainsaws.com is soon to re-open. For those who haven't seen the update there, you can read it below;

After I called time on EvilDeadChainsaws around the start of 2008, all the moulds & related bits & pieces were scrapped, and any larger machinery of value was sold off (such as a metal lathe, bandsaw, disc sander, pillar drill, bench table saw, slide mitre saw, metal shear, etc...). Many people have been in contact since then, and you'll be pleased to hear that my new workshop is currently being assembled. I'm starting completely from scratch, making new moulds and revising my designs based on all the various tweaks and upgrades built up over the chainsaws I made between 2005 to 2008. It will take a few more weeks prototype and refine new designs, but I'm approaching the production from a more experienced perspective, which will make for much better saws in the long run.

The revised 'Cabin' chainsaw will be prototyped first, as that was always the most popular. Once that's done and dusted, I'll begin taking orders again, which provisionally is penciled around the end of May. The 'Workshed' & 'Medieval' models will be available later this year as they each need some prototyping work too, so if you want one of those two you will have to wait for the time being. The main differences to the old chainsaws will be the internal construction, although there are a few cosmetic tweaks too.

Once on sale, the 'Cabin' chainsaw will be priced at £550 (UK Pounds) plus shipping, which is roughly $850 (US Dollars) or €650 (Euros), with the 'Workshed' & 'Medieval' models priced similarly. If you want to receive an email once I start taking orders in a few weeks, please email And your name will be added to the mailing list.

Just as an update to that, everything is on schedule. The workshop is now just about complete, and the 'Cabin' chainsaw's prototyping will start in the next few days. There are now a number of people on the waiting list, and orders will be done on a first-come-first-served basis.

April 1, 2013 - Ted Raimi Interview Online

You can now head over to the Features section to read an interview conducted with Ted Raimi. The interview covers It's Murder, Within The Woods & The Evil Dead rather than his later Henrietta Evil Dead II days (the make-up for which has already been heavily covered on this site in interviews with Mark Shostrom, Howard Berger, Robert Kurtzman, & Shannon Shea).

Most famously playing the role of Possessed Henrietta in Evil Dead II, Ted also had small parts in numerous Super-8 productions, including Six Months to Live, Torro, Torro Torro!, Stryker's War and as Milton's younger brother Bradley in It's Murder!, as well as playing the Cowardly Warrior, Second Supportive Villager & S-Mart Clerk roles in Army Of Darkness, and a string of other well known titles including Crimewave, Intruder, Hercules & Xena as the comical wanna-be warrior Joxer.

Lastly thanks to Jean, one more musical cue has been identified & added to the Super-8 - Scores page; 'Johnny Pearson - The Lightning Barber' which was used in the end titles for Torro, Torro Torro!.

March 27, 2013 - Magazine & In-Print Additions

Firstly, the existing low quality scan of Film Threat Vol.1 Issue 13 - 1987 has been upgraded to a 600dpi scan, which you can find on the Magazines page. While Cinefantastique - Vol.23 No.1 - August 1992 is easily the most comprehensive magazine available covering the complete Evil Dead Trilogy over 31 pages, the much rarer magazine Film Threat Vol.1 Issue 13 - 1987, is probably the most comprehensive coverage of the Super-8 days, containing interviews with Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell & Scotty Spiegel over 18 pages, with many photos which have never been published anywhere else.

Also scans of a rare 1985 The Evil Dead Japanese Large Foldover Promo Flyer have been added to the The Evil Dead - In-Print page. A huge debt of gratitude is owed to Japanese fan Keiichi from Tokyo for all his help in locating these and a number of other items.

Lastly, one new interview has just been completed, so expect to see that on the site in the next week or so.

March 15, 2013 - More Various Additions

Some little updates and additions; Three new images have been added to the The Evil Dead - Photo Gallery page, and the Evil Dead II - Artwork page has some new additions too. Also, the locations DVD set available on the The Evil Dead - Locations page and the Evil Dead II - Locations page, has now been added to the top of the Online Store page as well.

Expect one further special addition which is currently winging it's way from Tokyo in Japan, soon!

March 14, 2013 - Evil Dead II Photo Gallery Section

In addition to The Evil Dead - Photo Gallery page added over a week ago, The Evil Dead II section's 'Photos & Artwork' page has now been split into two pages and vastly expanded. The Evil Dead II - Photo Gallery page now contains every behind-the-scenes, publicity, and promotional photo for Evil Dead collected together in one place, and that's currently over six hundred & fifty images. They've been collected from a number of sources; some donated by members of the cast & crew during interviews and contact with this site, magazine scans, books, DVD galleries, screenshots, promo material, and the wider internet over the years. If you have any photos which aren't included, or have any in higher quality, then please get in touch. Equally, if you're looking for a full-resolution version of any of the images, then just ask.

Evil Dead II - Artwork page now just covers artwork relating to Evil Dead II. An Army Of Darkness photo gallery page will also be added soon, and expect further updates over the next week.

March 8, 2013 - More Various Additions

A few more little additions, around a hundred new items from The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II & Army Of Darkness have been added to the Props & Replicas section on the Collectables page, including a photo from the current owner of Ash's oversized head from Evil Dead II (thanks to Forrest). People may also be pleased to know that an extensive Evil Dead II photo gallery page much like the The Evil Dead - Photo Gallery page is in the works, and should have over 300-400 photos once complete.

Another addition; information and a Paypal checkout button has been added to the bottom of both The Evil Dead - Locations page and the Evil Dead II - Locations page, to allow people to easily buy the locations footage, which is available in two versions which you can read about below. While most people will want the neatly edited single disc version, you also have the option of getting the raw unedited footage across three discs too. The DVDs aren't region coded but they are in european PAL format (not NTSC), so anyone ordering from the USA should check their DVD player will play PAL discs beforehand.

THE EVIL DEAD & EVIL DEAD II LOCATIONS FOOTAGE DVD

You can order all the locations footage on DVD. Every location for The Evil Dead & Evil Dead II detailed on this site is included (except 'Fryingpan Tunnel'). Orders can be shipped worldwide via Airmail at one fixed rate, and the footage is available in two versions;

The single DVD version: 49 minutes edited from the raw footage, it's basically what's shown on this site with a few extra minutes. Playable from start to finish, with start & end credits, chapter stops and subtitle introductions.

Price Each £4.99/$7.99 + S&H

The three DVD disc set: Nearly four hours of raw footage as it was shot, playable from start to finish over three discs.

Price Each £9.99/$14.99 + S&H

Both the single & three disc versions

Price Each £12.99/$19.99 + S&H

All the DVDs are PAL (please make sure you can play this) widescreen Region '0' single layer DVD+R discs, and are supplied in paper slip-cases with printed disc artwork. You can order via the Paypal checkout button below, or send an email direct to

Please Note: As both the current & previous owners of the Evil Dead II Cabin Site did not wish to be identified or appear in any footage released to the public (for obvious reasons), 14m 16s of the total 4h 03m 38s of video which was shot, has been removed from the raw footage covering the Evil Dead II Cabin Site, Production House, Storage Barn, and The J. R. Faison Junior High School, along with blanking a couple of short portions of audio in the footage that's left too. Most of this is simply unrelated general conversation inadvertently captured by the camera while setting up and packing away at each location. The footage in the three disc DVD set still runs at 3h 49m 22s and is literally as complete as it can be without breaching their confidence.

March 7, 2013 - Various Additions

Firstly, the project to create a replica of the clock seen in The Evil Dead & Evil Dead II which was detailed a few weeks ago on the forums here, has now been given it's own page, far expanded over the original post. The Evil Dead Replica Clock Project page in the Features section.

Also, three new items have been added to various pages. Firstly and most importantly, scans of an incredibly rare 4-page French Program for The Evil Dead, created by Irvin Shapiro's company 'Films Around The World', for publicity in Cannes in May of 1983. In addition, a UK Newspaper Advert from an unknown source has also been added, you can see both on the The Evil Dead - In-Print page. Finally a UK Newspaper Advert for Evil Dead II from New Muscial Express published on 27 June, 1987 has been added to the Evil Dead II - In-Print page

March 5, 2013 - The Evil Dead Photo Gallery Section

The Evil Dead section's 'Photos & Artwork' page has now been split into two pages and vastly expanded. The The Evil Dead - Photo Gallery page now contains every behind-the-scenes, publicity, and promotional photo for The Evil Dead collected together in one place, and that's currently over three-hundred images. They've been collected from a number of sources. 129 photos were personally scanned from my collection of original photos & slides, with the remaining two-thirds assembled from; magazine scans, books, DVD galleries, screenshots, promo material, and the wider internet over the years. If you have any photos which aren't included, or have any in higher quality, then please get in touch. Equally, if you're looking for a full-resolution version of any of the images, then just ask.

The Evil Dead - Artwork page now just covers artwork relating to The Evil Dead, but has also been expanded to include pictures by Tom Sullivan & Rick Melton. Expect further updates over the next week.

February 25, 2013 - Locations DVD & Other News

The long promised The Evil Dead & Evil Dead II Locations DVD project is semi-finished. Basically, the person who was to film the Fryingpan Tunnel location on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina has fallen through, and they were the one person who replied to the email originally sent out to a fair list of local people. Lack of any other option means the project can't be 'formerly' finished for the time being and will just be distributed as-is. If you're able to help out by shooting some footage of that location (your time & costs would be paid) then please get in touch. Either way read on you're interested in getting a copy of all the current footage on DVD.

As The Evil Dead locations footage will simply be incorporated as an extra into the Book Of The Dead DVD project as it gets revised with new material at some point in the future (in the next few years, rather than weeks or months), and the Evil Dead II footage incorporated into a possible future Evil Dead II Treasures Collection DVD project, there is little point in spending too much time in authoring a full DVD, designing specific menus, artwork and the like, so for the moment people will simply get the footage on a DVD disc playable from start to finish, with start & end credits, chapter stops and subtitle introductions to each segment. It's worth mentioning that there is some footage on the DVD in addition to what has been added to the locations pages on this site, nothing too major though. The main difference is the quality. The DVD has been edited from over 4 hours of raw footage shot, filmed personally in 16:9 1080i HD with a JVC GZHM445 PAL Camcorder, which was downscaled to SD 16:9 25p PAL and encoded to DVD. If any DVD production companies are interested in aquiring footage for use in their own DVDs, as well as anyone else who wants a copy, please contact;

On a related note, while a possible future Evil Dead II Treasures Collection DVD project was mentioned above, and some items have already been collected together, the main component needed to move on with this project is still needed. It was intended that the TV version (as described one the Evil Dead II - Different Versions page) would be edited together with some form of the theatrical version to produce an extended cut of the film. Although a YouTube rip of this TV version is available, the quality is not that great, and a portion of the film is missing. If you have this lying around on an old VHS tape, or have a better quality transfer, please get in touch.

In other news, some of you might be interested to read up on a personally undertaken project to create an Evil Dead replica clock on the forums. This project will be incorporated somewhere into the site at some point too. Last but far from least, a very special box of items is currently winging it's way from the USA to the UK, and should arrive in the next few days, and will make a truly fantastic addition to the site. More on this when it arrives.

January 13, 2013 - Four In-Print Additions & Locations News

Four new titles have been added to various pages. Firstly an upgraded quality copy of Starburst #058 - June 1983, has been added to the Magazines page in the Features section. Also a Thai set of Lobby Cards for The Evil Dead have been added to the The Evil Dead - In-Print page, a UK Palace Pictures set of Lobby Cards for Evil Dead II have been added to the Evil Dead II - In-Print page (thanks to Jesper for providing both of those), and a Spanish set of Lobby Cards for Army Of Darkness has been added to the Army Of Darkness - In-Print page (thanks to Elise for scanning those).

As an additional piece of news, according to the National Parks Office in Oteen, the section of the Blue Ridge Parkway which holds Fryingpan Tunnel should be open in a matter of days and was only closed temporarily due to a particularly cold spell, so expect the addition of that locations video, along with the locations DVD much sooner than planned.

January 7, 2013 - Location Video Additions & An Evil Dead 2012 Remake Section

Over 45 minutes of camcorder footage shot in December 2012, of nine locations used in the filming of The Evil Dead & Evil Dead II has now been added to both the The Evil Dead - Locations page and the Evil Dead II - Locations page.

It was intended that the website footage would be added at the end of January along with the release of a DVD version at the same time. Currently the Locations DVD itself is on hold until around April. This is because one further location has only recently been identfied so has not yet been filmed, and it's silly to complete & sell the DVD without it, only to then start selling a revised version in a few months. This location is of the tunnel seen just after the main titles of Evil Dead II (Fryingpan Tunnel) on the Blue Ridge Parkway running through the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. That section of road is high up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, It is not unusual for it to be temporarily closed to repair damage caused by the cold winter climate at that elevation or for other maintenance. Unfortunately the specific section which encompasses Fryingpan Tunnel is currently closed with detours in place at both ends making it completely inacessible by vehicle, so no footage could be shot. Once it re-opens in a few months, footage will be added to the site and the DVD completed.

These location videos have been edited from over 4 hours of raw footage shot, filmed personally in 16:9 1080i HD with a JVC GZHM445 PAL Camcorder, which was downscaled to SD 16:9 25p PAL and encoded to DVD. If any DVD production companies are interested in aquiring footage for use in their own DVDs, then please get in contact.

Finally, given the huge interest in the Evil Dead Remake, a "why is there no Evil Dead Remake section" section has been added to the The Trilogy section, which outlines the reasoning behind this. Should you want information, you can read a little more on the Evil Dead 4? page which covers various rumours & interviews leading up to the release, and check out the links section to browse other sites.

December 29, 2012 - Four In-Print Additions & Updates

Four titles have been added to various pages. A new title has been added to the Magazines page in the Features section; a Japanese title called Uchusen (or 宇宙船 in Japanese, which translates into English as 'Spaceship'); Vol.47 No.4 - 1989. Also a Japanese set of B&W 6x4 Lobby Cards for The Evil Dead have been added to the The Evil Dead - In-Print page, a Japanese set of B&W 6x4 Lobby Cards for Evil Dead II have been added to the Evil Dead II - In-Print page, and a Japanese Large Foldover Promo Flyer for Army Of Darkness has been added to the Army Of Darkness - In-Print page.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

Finally a small addition to the Evil Dead II - Locations page; the location & information on the tunnel seen in the opening titles has been added at the bottom. Unfortunately, this location wasn't identified in time to be filmed while I was touring the other locations, but I'm actively trying to find someone local to the area who can film some footage which can be added to the site, as well as my forthcoming locations DVD.

December 22, 2012 - Updates; My Evil Dead fan-trip of a lifetime!

Apologies of the lack of updates, editing the Evil Dead locations footage/DVD is taking up all of my spare time at the moment (see news entry below), but The Evil Dead - Locations page and Evil Dead II - Locations page have now been corrected & updated with all the new information & images from my trip. Video footage will be added over the next few weeks, along with scans of a few new Japanese items too, so watch out for further updates.

December 10, 2012 - My Evil Dead fan-trip of a lifetime!

Apologies of the lack of updates, the reason why should become clear as you read on. As some of you will already know, I made various forum posts on a trip to the USA at some point either towards the end of 2012 or the beginning of 2013. Well I didn't want to post anything until I had done it, and now I have. So much money, preparation & planning went in to this. So here is a brief account of my trip.

On Wednesday December 5, 2012 I flew out from London Heathrow Airport into Knoxville Airport in Tennessee arriving in the evening and going straight to a local hotel. Then the following day I took a hire car and drove out to former site of The Evil Dead cabin in Morristown around 60 miles away. I decided to break it up into two visits, I'd walk there first, check things out, collect a few souvenirs, then walk back to the car. Then I'd drive up and do the filming. That was because If I did get found by the owners while filming and asked to leave, all the items I'd taken earlier would be safe already in the car. Because I parked at a Gas station way down near the main road, I had to walk around a mile to get to the site. I really didn't know it would be as long a walk as that, it looked much shorter on Google Earth. First visit I took three big chimney rocks, some leaves, a bag of soil from the cellar and bag of soil round the chimney, a bag full of tin roof bits, some tree bark, some twigs, a few twisted vines, and put everything in my backpack and hiked back to the car which was very hard work! I finally got back, then drove up and parked just beyond the cabin entrance, which was out of site of all houses except for anyone driving directly past. I spent about an hour filming the walk down the path, around the cabin, different views up on the hillside, and never saw a soul. While the cabin is no longer there, there is still around half the chimney stack, as well as large sections of the roof and some foundations. I then drove the 30 miles to the Clinch River Road/Riverside Road location, used for the opening Oldsmobile driving shots, then another 20 miles to Old Highway 25E seen where Scott shouts at two waving fishermen, filming footage at each location, before heading to a local Morristown hotel for the evening.

On the Friday I headed back up to the cabin site to film further footage, before driving 30 miles down to the site of the destroyed bridge, some of the remains of which are still there. At around noon that day I finished up in Morristown and drove 260 miles over the Smokey Mountains arriving at the hotel in Wadesboro, North Carolina that evening.

On the Saturday in Wadesboro I toured various Evil Dead II filming locations including the The J. R. Faison Junior High School which was used to house the cabin & cellar interior sets and the crew & admin offices/workshops, the Bonsal Ballast Pits which was the location for the climactic medieval section of the movie and now looks very different, and most importantly the exterior Cabin set which still exists although in a very dilapidated state. It's worth adding that a visit to the cabin was only possible due to the fact that I had become friendly with the original owners of the site months beforehand, who in turn were friendly with the current owners of the site. While I won't mention their names here, I would just reiterate my thanks to them for making this trip so amazing! The cabin site isn't accessible from any public roads, it's not accessible at all actually, it's in the middle of a large privately owned section of working cattle farmland, and the whole site has an electric cattle fence around it. I was escorted from the entrance to the site by car, then driven back to the main road once I'd finished.

PLEASE NOTE THIS WARNING

While both the current & previous owners of the Evil Dead II cabin site welcomed me with fantastic southern hospitality, they have asked me to inform Evil Dead fans that from this point on they will take legal action against anyone contacting them regarding the property, or attempts access in any way, shape, or form. They have allowed me specifically to shoot footage there so fans around the world can see the cabin in detail as it is today, without going there. The surrounding area is a busy working cattle farm and if the cabin begins to pose even the slightest liability to them, with fans phoning up or wandering into their property, it will simply be levelled. The sole reason it's even still standing is the sheer luck that the area hasn't been used for anything else so far.

Please think carefully, you can see comprehensive footage through this site and that should be enough. Do you want to be personally responsible for the destruction of the cabin?

On Sunday I drove up to the Anson County Airport (which was re-named 'Fairview, TN' on screen), before driving to Charlotte Airport to return the hire car and catch the first of several long flights back home. Due to the fact I'd picked up around 30kg of souvenirs (and even though I took a large virtually-empty suitcase exactly for that propose) I still had to pay extra to get everything on the plane. That extra charge still worked out cheaper than mailing that same weight to myself in the UK via USPS. I arrived back in the UK on Monday December 10. All told the trip cost easily over a thousand UK pounds with flights, hotels and car hire.

I shot around 5 hours of video over the various locations, so I will be adding video and screenshots to the website and editing this into a fanmade DVD over the next few months, so watch this space for more info!

November 3, 2012 - Major In-Print & Magazine Additions

Three new titles have been added to the Magazines page in the Features section; Firstly two issues of a Japanese title called Uchusen (or 宇宙船 in Japanese, which translates into English as 'Spaceship'); Vol.25 No.8 - 1985, and Vol.37 No.8 - 1987. Vol.37 No.8 - 1987 is something very special indeed; a detailed 8-page look behind the scenes of Evil Dead II, with many previously unseen effects & modelmaking department photos. A huge debt of gratitude is owed to Japanese fan Keiichi from Tokyo for all his help in locating these and a number of other items. In addition, Films & Filming #394 - July 1987 has also been added thanks to Shaun.

Thanks to Evil Dead collector Jesper from Denmark, you can now see the US, French, German and Spanish lobby card sets for The Evil Dead on The Evil Dead - In-Print page, as well as the German and Spanish lobby cards for Evil Dead II, on the Evil Dead II - In-Print page. In addition, thanks to Shaun you can also see the Japanese lobby cards and a 2002 'Chirashi' Promo Flyer for The Evil Dead on The Evil Dead - In-Print page, and the Army Of Darkness French lobby cards on the Army Of Darkness - In-Print page.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

October 26, 2012 - Thoughts On The Evil Dead 2012 Remake

A few people have been in contact about the The Evil Dead 2012 Remake, and if the site will be expanded to encompass this. Well for the moment at least I'm afraid it won't be included. Upon first seeing the bootleg Comic-Con footage, then the HD red-band trailer, I have to say my first impressions are that I'm really not keen. Not at all. Maybe it's just 'original-ist' protectionism on my part, or maybe I saw the original at exactly the right time in life and it had a big impact on me, but I feel that take the title away, and you just have another stereotypical horror film with scene after scene of ultra-realistic and downright unpleasant violence which is now part & parcel of everyday horror film-making, something which was brought into the mainstream by the lucrative Hostel and Saw series, and even further back with European films like Haute Tension and Irreversible. It feels edgy to watch films like that, to push your own tolerance, but films in this range are hardly a 'fun rollercoaster theatrical experience', they just exist to push the boundaries with each one having to go that little bit further to differentiate itself. A little further down that path and you're watching very questionable material such as A Serbian Film, Pig and The Bunny Game.

There are parallels to Zack Snyder's 2004 Dawn Of The Dead remake of George A Romero's 1978 original. There was nothing wrong with that remake from a technical standpoint, in actual fact it surpassed the original in virtually every professional & technical film-making aspect. So why didn't it come within a million miles of being as an enjoyable experience as the original? Maybe their carefully crafted heart... the soul that both the Dawn Of The Dead & The Evil Dead originals had was simply missing from the by-the-numbers faceless remakes. Sam Raimi has admitted that he feels somewhat embarrassed by the original now, something he made clear with the plethora of A/V fixes & tweaks to the 2010 Anchor Bay The Evil Dead Blu-Ray release. Maybe this remake was a cathartic experience, something which allowed him to 'fix' everything he thought was wrong with his original film. To me that's like remarking that Picasso's paintings would be much improved if the perspective wasn't all over the place. By that reasoning, a photo of a chair would be so much better than Van Gogh's painting; 'Chair'. The Evil Dead original is akin to a work of art; loved especially because of all it's little imperfections, not despite them. That's what sets it apart from so many other by-the-numbers horror films made before or since.

I'm sure many fans will rave about The Evil Dead Remake, claiming it far better than the 'kinda crappy' original, with very brisk business at the box office and on home video, but will there be new legions of fans not yet born moved to set up devoted fansites in thirty years from now? We shall see...

October 26, 2012 - Misc Additions & Updates

Upgraded higher quality scans of two titles have been added to the Magazines page in the Features section; Video The Magazine - September 1987 and GoreZone No.9 - September 1989. Thanks to Shaun for making those available, and expect further additions soon.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

Material from the fifth & sixth days spent at the British Library Newspapers buildings in London on Saturday the 29th of September, and Saturday the 6th of October, going through their archive of UK newspapers searching for Video Nasty & censorship related material for the Video Nasties project in the Features section. has now been added into the downloadable PDF file, taking it up to 337 Pages. While there is still 52 entries left on the 'list of articles still missing from the PDF file', all of it is was printed 1993 or later and none of it is particularly pivotal, so unless further articles come to light, that will be the final project update for the moment as travelling into central London and getting material is both time consuming and expensive.

Obviously having been sourced from Microfilm, the quality isn't great, they look like black & white photocopies. At least this will give people a chance to read through everything, and if needed, you can find the date & page from the PDF and contact British Library Newspapers and ask them to make a copy directly from the originals. If a larger revised version of the PDF is uploaded at some point in the future, it will be announced on this main site news page so people don't miss out.

Also a little comparison video sequence has been added near the bottom of the Evil Dead II - Palace Pictures page, showing the two-seconds of censorship edits imposed by the BBFC for the Palace Picures UK home video release of Evil Dead II. A censorship comparison sequence between the UK 'U' (suitable for all) Evil Dead II trailer, and uncut US trailer will also be added shortly.

October 9, 2012 - Misc News

A huge debt of thanks is owed to Keiichi from Tokyo in Japan, who's assisted in locating and sending a number of Japanese Evil Dead Trilogy related items over the past few weeks, as well as Arthur from California, USA for the original introduction. Thanks to him further material is on it's way, including that 'very special' item, mentioned in the September 13, 2012 update. Expect those new additions soon.

Also, a sixth day was spent at the British Library Newspapers buildings in London on Saturday the 6th of October, going through their archive of UK newspapers searching for Video Nasty & censorship related material for the Video Nasties project in the Features section. A further 70 pages of video nasty articles have been printed off, taking the number of articles listed in the "Click here for a list of articles still missing from the PDF file" (currently mostly compiled from the excellent Video Nasties book 'Seduction of the Gullible: The Truth Behind the Video Nasty Scandal' by John Martin) from 101 down to 52. A seventh day will be spent in a week or two which should hopefully take that list to all but nothing, after which all the new material from all three visits will be scanned and added into the hosted PDF file.

September 30, 2012 - A The Evil Dead In-Print Section Upgrade

An upgraded higher quality scan of the 1985 Japanese Movie Programme has been added to the The Evil Dead - In-Print page. Expect further additions soon.

Also, a fifth day was spent at the British Library Newspapers buildings in London on Saturday the 29th of September, going through their archive of UK newspapers searching for Video Nasty & censorship related material for the Video Nasties project in the Features section. Another 56 pages of video nasty articles have been printed off, taking the number of articles listed in the "Click here for a list of articles still missing from the PDF file" (currently mostly compiled from the excellent Video Nasties book 'Seduction of the Gullible: The Truth Behind the Video Nasty Scandal' by John Martin) from 161 down to 101. A sixth day will be spent on Saturday the 6th of October to further reduce that list, after which all the new material from both visits will be scanned and added into the hosted PDF file.

September 25, 2012 - Another Magazine Section Addition

A high quality scan of another magazine has been added towards the bottom of the Magazines page in the Features section; UK fanzine Samhain issues 1 and 2.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

September 23, 2012 - Another Evil Dead II In-Print Section Addition

High quality scans of the various items in the Evil Dead II 1987 US Press Kit has been added to the Evil Dead II - In-Print page. Expect further additions over the next few days.

September 21, 2012 - A Evil Dead II In-Print Section Addition

A high quality scan of the 2007 German language Pegasus Filmprogramm number 49 has been added to the Evil Dead II - In-Print page. Evil Dead II is entitled 'Tanz Der Teufel II' in Germany, which roughly translates as 'Dance With The Devil II'. Expect further additions over the next few days.

September 20, 2012 - A The Evil Dead In-Print Section Addition

A high quality scan of the 2007 German language Pegasus Filmprogramm number 46 has been added to the The Evil Dead - In-Print page. The Evil Dead is entitled 'Tanz Der Teufel' in Germany, which roughly translates as 'Dance With The Devil'. Expect further additions over the next few days.

September 16, 2012 - Another Magazine Section Addition

A high quality scan of another magazine has been added towards the bottom of the Magazines page in the Features section; a UK fanzine title called Samhain; Issue 3 from May/June 1987. Expect Samhain issues 1 and 2 which also cover The Evil Dead & Evil Dead II to be uploaded soon.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

September 14, 2012 - A Magazine Section Addition

A high quality scan of another rare magazine covering Evil Dead II has been added towards the bottom of the Magazines page in the Features section; a title from Japan called Uchusen (or 宇宙船 in Japanese, which translates into English as 'Spaceship'), Vol.39 No.12 published in 1987.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

September 13, 2012 - Various In-Print Section Additions

High quality scans of a number of Japanese 'Chirashi' Flyers have been added for all three movies', see the The Evil Dead - In-Print page, Evil Dead II - In-Print page, and the Army Of Darkness - In-Print page.

'Chirashi' (or 映画チラシ) are 7"x10" flyers placed in cinema lobbies in Japan to promote current and future movie releases. They often take the form of a miniature replica of the movie's poster with promotional photos and information on the reverse. They're usually a single double-sided page, but two or four page versions are sometimes produced. See Wikipedia for a more detailed explanation.

Expect one further 'very special' addition which is currently winging it's way from Tokyo in Japan, soon!

September 12, 2012 - The Evil Dead In-Print Section Addition

High quality scans of The Evil Dead 1983 French Movie Programme have been added to the The Evil Dead - In-Print page. Expect some more additions to each of the Trilogy's In-Print sections in the next week or two.

Also, having carefully checked through the excellent Video Nasties book 'Seduction of the Gullible: The Truth Behind the Video Nasty Scandal' by John Martin, the list of articles still known to be missing from the Video Nasties project in the Features section, has been greatly expanded. Further days will probably be spent in the near future at the British Library Newspapers buildings in London to work through the list.

August 27, 2012 - New Army Of Darkness In-Print Section & Links Updated

Another new section has been added; a Army Of Darkness - In-Print page, created to augment the Magazines page in the Features section. This page will host PDFs & scans of printed material relating specifically to Army Of Darkness, such as movie programs, flyers and newspaper articles. Although currently sparse, expect further items to be added in the coming weeks.

In addition, the Links page has a number of new entries, with some dead links updated or removed.

August 25, 2012 - The Evil Dead & Evil Dead II In-Print Sections Added

Two new sections have been added; a The Evil Dead - In-Print page, and an Evil Dead II - In-Print page, created to augment the Magazines page in the Features section. These pages will host PDFs & scans of printed material relating specifically to each respective film, such as movie programs, flyers and newspaper articles. Although currently sparse, expect further items to be added in the coming weeks. Currently there is no equivalent Army Of Darkness section as it would be empty, but hopefully this will be added as further material becomes available.

August 24, 2012 - A few Upgraded Images And Prospective New Sections

A few scans across that pages in the The Evil Dead - Commodore 64 Section within the Features section have been upgraded, with huge thanks to Canadian fan & collector Elise Holmes. You can see her excellent blog Here, which is updated nearly every day.

In addition, a new section for each of the three movies' is in the works; an 'In-Print' page. This will contain PDFs & scans of printed material relating specifically to each respective film. Items such as movie programs, flyers and newspaper articles. Expect this in the next few weeks.

August 13, 2012 - Further Expanded Video Nasties Newspaper Story Scans Project

A fourth day was spent at the British Library Newspapers buildings in London on Saturday the 11th of August, going through their archive of UK newspapers searching for Video Nasty & censorship related material for the Video Nasties project in the Features section. Another 53 pages of video nasty articles have been added into the downloadable PDF file, taking it up to 207 pages.

Obviously having been sourced from Microfilm, the quality isn't great, they look like black & white photocopies. At least this will give people a chance to read through everything, and if needed, you can find the date & page from the PDF and contact British Library Newspapers and ask them to make a copy directly from the originals. If a larger revised version of the PDF is uploaded at some point in the future, it will be announced on this main site news page so people don't miss out.

July 23, 2012 - Expanded Video Nasties Newspaper Story Scans Project

A third day was spent at the British Library Newspapers buildings in London on Saturday the 22nd of July, going through their archive of UK newspapers searching for Video Nasty & censorship related material for the Video Nasties project in the Features section. Another 50 pages of video nasty articles have been added into the downloadable PDF file, taking it up to 154 pages. A British Library Newspapers information booklet & paperwork has also now been included should you wish to visit them yourself.

Obviously having been sourced from Microfilm, the quality isn't great, they look like black & white photocopies. At least this will give people a chance to read through everything, and if needed, you can find the date & page from the PDF and contact British Library Newspapers and ask them to make a copy directly from the originals. There is still enough material to make a fourth visit viable, so check back in a few weeks for more, and if a larger revised version of the PDF is uploaded, this will be announced on this main site news page so people don't miss out.

July 13, 2012 - Video Nasties Newspaper Story Scans Project

A new page has been added to the Features section, which details the Video Nasties project. On the 11th & 12th of July 2012, I spent time at the British Library & British Library Newspapers buildings in London, going through their archive of UK newspapers searching for Video Nasty & censorship related material. The over-a-hundred printouts have been scanned at 300dpi, and strung together 1:1 into one big 96-page A4 sized PDF, which has been uploaded in a ZIP file.

Obviously having been sourced from Microfilm, the quality isn't great, they look like black & white photocopies. At least this will give people a chance to read through everything, and if needed, you can find the date & page from the PDF and contact British Library Newspapers and ask them to make a copy directly from the originals. If a larger revised version of the PDF is uploaded in the future, this will be announced on this main site news page so people don't miss out.

June 22, 2012 - Robert Kurtzman Interview Online

You can now head over to the Features section to read an interview conducted with Robert Kurtzman. Robert was the 'K' in 'KNB' EFX Group's title, along with Howard Berger ('B') and Greg Nicotero ('N'), and worked on the make-up effects of both Evil Dead II and Army Of Darkness.

Working freelance on a number of feature films in his early career, since Robert, Howard & Greg formed KNB EFX Group in 1988, they worked on a huge list of movies & TV shows, including many subsequent Sam Raimi films. In 2004, he left KNB EFX Group, relocating from LA to his home state of Ohio, and forming his own company; Precinct 13 Entertainment, along with Creature Corps, and the Kurtzman Instititute of Art, which now has a Special Make-up and Character Design Academy.

June 21, 2012 - Super-8 Shorts Score Section, Cabin Plans, And Further Interviews

In much the same vain as the Within The Woods Score page, a Super-8 Shorts Scores Page has also now been added, which you can see in the Super-8 Origins section. While not hugely comprehensive, it's at least a start and covers many of the tunes people will find memorable. In addition to this, a Cabin Plans page has been added to the Features section, with detailed scale plans of The Evil Dead's cabin location sets, which were created for a long-abandoned 2005 Lego stop motion animation project.

Look out for further interviews in the next few weeks. A new one has just been completed and is currently being written up, with a second interview pencilled in next month.

May 30, 2012 - Howard Berger Interview Online

You can now head over to the Features section to read an interview conducted with Howard Berger. Howard is the 'B' in 'KNB' EFX Group's title, along with Bob Kurtzman ('K') and Greg Nicotero ('N'), and worked on the make-up effects of both Evil Dead II and Army Of Darkness.

Working freelance on a number of feature films in his early career, since Howard, Bob & Greg formed KNB EFX Group in 1988, they've worked on a huge list of movies & TV shows, including many subsequent Sam Raimi films.

May 15, 2012 - Magazine Additions

Another rare magazine has been added to the Magazines page taking the total to 27 titles, with all thanks & credit to reader Swofty. If you can help with scans of further out-of-print & defunct titles, please get in contact. A list of additional magazines which aren't included has also been written up.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

Also, the Prime Notify mod has just been installed to the forums. Previously when a PM was sent to you from another user, you got a notification email which simply stated that you had a new message, not what the message was, which basically meant that all your PMs were stored on the forums (unless you specifically export each message manually). The new Prime Notify mod allows the message content to be displayed in the notification email. Now people can save their PM notification emails so they have their own local copies of each PM sent to them regardless of what happens to this site years down the line.

April 3, 2012 - Reader's Tales Section Now Open

A new page entititled Reader's Tales has been opened in the Features section. There you can read some amusing, cautionary, or simply informative horror related true stories submitted by this site's readers. As this section is new, it's currently quite bare, but it should hopefully expand in due course. If you have any interesting anecdotes you'd like to share and have added to this section, please get in contact with us. Should you wish, stories can be anonymized and any identifying details such as names precise locations can be omitted to protect everyone involved.

April 23, 2012 - My Trip To The BBFC

Much as I would like to make a post here praising the people at the British Board of Film Classification for their hospitality and helpfulness, I can't. So I've written out the story anyway lest anyone else find themselves in the same situation. So, a friend sent me a link to the BBFC website, which seemed to offer the ability for anyone to come in and view their records of any film they'd classified;

"Anyone wishing to view the Board’s records should email helpline@bbfc.co.uk and should provide a list of film titles and release dates. We will check the availability of each file and contact you to make an appointment to come in and view the records. No file can be removed from our building. We only charge for this service if we have to recall a box from our external archive and the cost is £17.24 for up to four boxes. You will have to complete a Copyright Acceptance Form before viewing and you should refer to it for terms and conditions."

I thought this would make excellent research material for this website. I emailed the helpline address above but heard nothing back, so I called the helpline to make an appointment and re-sent the email through while I was one the phone. I was told I should be OK to look at The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II folders, but not the Army Of Darkness material as it was still within their 20 year limit, a policy created to protect any examiner or expert named therein.

I took the day off work and caught the train to visit the BBFC located in Soho Square, Central London on the 27th of February, turning up at 9:30am and waited to see one of the Information Officers, who I shall call 'F'. She explained that she'd been away the week before so was a little rushed, but took me upstairs into a side room and handed over the two folders. I was told I couldn't take any photos, but I could note which pages I was interested in and get them to make photocopies on my behalf, as they would need to get clearance from any person named on each document, which might take a little time if they had to track people down. I looked through both folders, there was a wealth of material there, probably over a hundred pages in each folder; including examiners handwritten notes on each of the films, letters between lawyers, letters between the BBFC and Palace Pictures, and even a prototype version of the 1990 The Evil Dead re-release VHS cover. I went through both folders, putting to one side any documents I wanted, and finished after about an hour. Then 'F' asked me to send her an email briefly reiterating what I wanted photocopies of, just so she could forward it on to management, using my Smartphone I did that while I was standing in her office, and she verified she had it. Then she gave a little talk about what they do in her department, explained how they are trying to publicize the research service they offer, showed me a few things, and then I left.

On the 1st of March I got an email back from 'F' saying "...sorry, but I've lost the email you sent the other day. I purged too much. Could you send it again..." so I sent it again. On the 30th of March I got another email asking me to re-send it, which I did, from two separate email addresses I use this time, and still heard nothing back. On the 16th of April I called and spoke to someone else in her department, and was told 'F' was away till later in the week. I briefly explained my situation and was told they only make photocopies of documents in very rare legal or educational circumstances, and he made it clear it was extremely unlikely I was going to get photocopies for my research purposes.

Confused, I thought it best to speak to 'F' directly. On the 23rd of April I got through to her, she said she hadn't heard back from me and could I email her again which I did (the fourth email now), to two separate BBFC email addresses while on the phone to her, and she acknowledged she'd now received my email. Within two hours I got an email back to say unfortunately they couldn't make copies, but I could go back again and take notes if I wanted to. I took this up as a complaint that same day, speaking to someone else there. I was told they'd spoken to management but the decision stood, but pointed out in a later email that I should have been under no illusions as I had signed & agreed to the 'Copyright Acceptance form'. I have a copy of this form, and it does not say that photocopies of documents cannot be made, simply that the decision to do so is at the BBFC Director's discretion. Further to this, they said "as our website says - No file can be removed from our building - this applies to copies too", which is somewhat confusing? Why would anyone apply to the BBFC for copies, if the copies they made for them could never leave their premises, that is nonsensical? Finally they also said there was never any guarantee made that they would provide copies in any case.

At no time did 'F' mention that it was unlikely that I would be allowed copies of anything, and didn't even indicate there might be any problems, she actually made it seem a mere formality, just so they had in writing who I was and what I wanted the information for. I even had a conversation with her over blacking out the names on any paperwork rather than going to the trouble of tracking people down, as it was the dates & situations that were important to me, rather than who specifically said what to who. If she had made this clear, I would have taken much longer and made careful notes, but here I am two months later, a day spent in London, emails back and forth, and nothing whatsoever but this fairly dull story to show for it. All it would have take is one sentence to point their policy out.

Ladies and gentlemen... The BBFC.

April 4, 2012 - EvilDeadChainsaws.com Back Online

After closing 4 years ago, the hobby company I used to run; EvilDeadChainsaws.com, making Evil Dead II & Army Of Darkness replica 'hand chainsaws', is now back online!

This is detailed on the FAQ page, but just to explain why all three chainsaws currently unavailable; after I called time on EvilDeadChainsaws.com around the start of 2008, all the moulds, templates & related bit & pieces were scrapped, and any larger machinery of value was sold off (such as a metal lathe, bandsaw, disc sander, pillar drill, bench table saw, slide mitre saw, metal shear, etc...). This means starting completely from scratch, setting up a new home-workshop, making new moulds and revising my designs based on all the various tweaks and upgrades built up over the chainsaws I made between 2005 to 2008. It will take some time to prototype and refine new designs, but I'm approaching the production from a more experienced perspective, which should make for better saws in the long run. The website is online now, so it can get established in search engines and around fans long before the saws go on sale. If that wasn't enough, I'm moving house at the end of this year too, and can't set up a proper home workshop till that's out of the way, so please check back in 2013 if you are interested in placing an order. I'll announce a more specific date nearer the time.

March 20, 2012 - Online Store & Magazine Additions

Some new & upgraded A3 posters have been added to the Online Store page. This store helps to support the running costs of this site. Each design has been either created from scratch, heavily edited, or restored by myself in some way from the original. All payments are secure and managed through a Paypal Shopping Cart, so please show your support!

More additions have also been made to the Magazines page taking the total up to 26 titles. If you can help with scans of further out-of-print & defunct titles, please get in contact.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

March 11, 2012 - Online Store Now Open

You can now support the running costs of this site by heading over to the Online Store page to buy various A3 sized posters. The artwork projects shown stretch back as far as 2002. You may have seen some of my created/edited artwork for sale on Ebay and other such sites, but I was the originator of everything shown. Each design has been either created from scratch, heavily edited, or restored by myself in some way from the original. All payments are secure and managed through a Paypal Shopping Cart, so please show your support!

February 20, 2012 - Rick Catizone Interview Online

You can now head over to the Features section to read an interview conducted with Rick Catizone. Rick worked on a number of stop-motion animation sequences for Evil Dead II, such as Ash's severed hand and the various stages of Henrietta's transformation, as well as working on a number of now-cult films including Creepshow, Creepshow 2, Flesheater (AKA Zombie Nosh), and even George Romero's original Night of the Living Dead. You can view Rick's official website Here.

February 9, 2012 - Book Of The Dead Fanmade DVD Completion & Magazine Additions

At long last, the Book Of The Dead Fanmade DVD has been completed, and the Book Of The Dead Fanmade DVD page has been updated. It's worth saying that I'm a massive fan of the trilogy, and this project was never intended to rip anyone involved in the movie off. I wanted my DVD to be a companion to bought retail releases, not a 'free' bootleg replacement. In that spirit, any sharing of this DVD is to be far more tightly controlled than the original The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection DVD, which ended up being shared widely online. This DVD is being kept strictly offline for physical trades only.

More additions have also been made to the Magazines page taking the total up to 22 titles. If you can help with scans of further out-of-print & defunct titles, please get in contact.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

February 7, 2012 - Magazine Additions

The Magazines page has now been fleshed out to eighteen magazines. New magazines will be added in the future, but this is the bulk of what is currently available to us. If you can help with scans of further out-of-print & defunct titles, please get in contact. A list of additional magazines which aren't included has also been written up.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

February 6, 2012 - A New Section & More Additions

A Magazines page has now been added to the Features section, providing fans an online PDF format resource of some older & rarer magazines. Although currently sparse, further titles will be added in the coming weeks.

Readers please note: It is not intended that the Magazines page should provide the wider internet with complete pirated magazine scans. Each PDF consists of the magazine's front page, and only the few specific pages relating to Evil Dead Trilogy and/or related material, not the whole magazine. Titles which are still in print, such as The Dark Side, Fangoria, and Rue Morgue obviously will not be included, this only covers long defunct publications. We don't wish to tread on anyone's toes, simply to preserve material for future fans. If there are still any copyright holders out there would rather their titles, certain issues, or even individual pages were not included, please email us, and they'll be immediately removed.

The Evil Dead II - DVD page has also been corrected & expanded, comparing the 2011 US Lionsgate Evil Dead II Blu-Ray release to the 2000 R1 US Anchor Bay Evil Dead II open matte & matted widescreen DVD.

February 3, 2012 - Further little Additions & Updates

Some more little additions and updates of note; The Evil Dead - Deleted Scenes page has been updated to add in The Evil Dead deleted scenes, which were edited for inclusion on the Book Of The Dead Fanmade DVD, along with a better 'Book Of The Dead Differences' comparison video, and some amended text covering that. Finally, thanks to Brazilian fan Victor's assistance, you can now read the few lines of previously un-translatable Spanish Dialogue on the Evil Dead II - Different Versions page.

February 1, 2012 - Some Small Additions & Updates

Drawing from the excellent and highly recommended 2011 US Lionsgate Evil Dead II Blu-Ray release, a number of little text/image additions and updates have been made on a number of pages; Evil Dead II - Production page, Evil Dead II - Special F/X, Evil Dead II - Locations page, Evil Dead II - Deleted Scenes page, and the Evil Dead Trilogy Props Reference Guide.

January 31, 2012 - Webmasters Collection Page Added

A new page has been added, detailing the various unofficial, non-retail & fanmade items the webmasters of this site have built up over the last 10 years of collecting; the Webmasters Collection Page. Please note that This page simply serves to inform fans of the material that's out there to find, in addition to purchasing the various official retail DVD releases.

January 12, 2011 - Shannon Shea Interview Online

You can now head over to the Features section to read an interview conducted with Shannon Shea. As well as working on a long list of Hollywood films; including Predator, Jurassic Park, Land of the Dead, Drag Me to Hell, and most recently Men in Black III, Shannon worked for Mark Shostrom on the Evil Dead II special makeup effects crew, creating among other things, the character of Evil Ed. You can also read Shannon's fantastic 'First Person Monster Blog' Here.

December 20, 2011 - Some Small Updates

Merry Christmas to all! Just some small updates, videos have been added to the The Evil Dead - Censorship page, and The Evil Dead - Retail DVDs page, a more complete version of the Evil Dead II trailer has been added to the Evil Dead II - Synopsis page, and there have been some small updates & additions to the The Evil Dead - Book Of The Dead Fanmade DVD page, which after sitting on the back burner unfinished for many months, has been dusted off and should be finished in the next few weeks.

The forums are also open again to new members. They were completely dead for quite some time, and spam-bots were continually trying to sign up 6 or more per day, so registration was just disabled. After just looking into some anti-spam plug-ins, the forums have been re-opened, and hopefully the spam-bots will be kept at bay.

December 12, 2011 - Evil Dead II: "Severely Edited For Television"

Apologies for the lack of recent updates, other projects have been pressing. Worry not, we're back, and what an update we have for you!

We've just added comprehensive write up on the incredibly rare TV version of Evil Dead II, yes, the TV version! This was thought forever lost, until the long dismissed rumours of the Mexican TV airing with many additional scenes proved actually to be true, and boy were we wrong on that one! There's nearly 11 minutes of new and alternate material, including the burning of the Book of the Dead, Ash eating a squirrel, a new time vortex sequence, and a whole host of extended and alternate scenes!

Head over to the Evil Dead II - Different Versions page to read lots more.

August 4, 2011 - Bart Pierce Interview Online & Additions

You can now head over to the Features section to read an interview conducted with Bart Pierce. Bart worked with Tom Sullivan on creating the meltdown sequence at the end of The Evil Dead, but also created a number of the other optical effects, assisted Tom with some of the physical effects. Bart has a role as a zombie doctor in his two sons' new zombie-comedy-horror movie called Deadheads, currently touring various film festivals. You can find our more and see the trailer at DeadheadsTheMovie.com.

Also two more clips have been added to the Restored & Extended Book Of The Dead Fanedit page. Both are extended sequences using the various raw footage available; 'Dinner Table Conversation', and 'Looking Through The Book In The Cellar'. You can also see the other sequences which have been completed so far on the same page, although bear in mind that they may be incomplete and might still need some polishing!

August 1, 2011 - Twitter and Book Of The Dead

Firstly, the interview mentioned in the last update is just awaiting final approval, so expect that to be added shortly. Next, as you can see above, you can now follow this site's latest news & updates via Twitter. Any new updates posted on this page, will also be posted on the @BookOfTheDead Twitter Feed too.

Finally, anyone who was interested in the uncompleted Book Of The Dead fanedit restoration which was added to the The Evil Dead DVD section a few weeks back, might want to check out this new project; a Restored & Extended Book Of The Dead Fanedit. The original project fell by the wayside about a year ago, but it's recently been semi-resurrected in the guise of both a restored and extended The Evil Dead fanedit. It's really just a pointless hobby/pet project which has been moving very slowly along for the past few months, and it may or may not ever come to anything. The intention is to restore The Evil Dead to the original Book Of The Dead version, and extend it using the various raw footage featurettes. You can see the sequences which have been completed so far, although bear in mind that they may be incomplete and might still need some polishing!

July 27, 2011 - The Site's Second Anniversary Approaching

BookOfTheDead.ws is fast approaching it's second anniversary, and there are still new updates & additions every few weeks. The internet has a long list of defunct, long abandoned, and offline Evil Dead Trilogy fansites, a fate which is not intended for this site! This website is a labour of love, and a huge amount of hard work has been put in to make this the definitive online resource covering every aspect of the Evil Dead trilogy, more comprehensive than any other current or past website. This site is still going growing and this will not be changing in the future.

In other news, I've just conducted a new interview which should be online in the next week or two. I will reveal all as it's added to the site. Further interviews are still being sought, so expect more soon. The Site Design & Content Credits page has been updated to add in some new names to the Thank You list. This site would be quite bare without people willing to contribute in one way or another, so thanks again to everyone! Finally, the Within The Woods Score section has finally been updated. Again thanks to Scott Spiegel, another gap has been filled, leaving only two tracks left to identify.

July 10, 2011 - General News & Updates

Since opening on October 31, 2009, 'Book Of The Dead' has now had over 10,000 visitors! The site is still expanding and there are regular updates & additions. Among the latest; the fanmade DVDs The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection, and Book Of The Dead, in The Evil Dead DVD section now have some sample videos to give you a better idea of the projects. On July 7, 2011 our second of the two new interviews was completed. It's currently being formatted, and will be online soon.

July 7, 2011 - Super-8 Shorts DVD Section

The Super-8 Origins section now has a DVD sub-section, which contains information about the various shorts which are legally available to buy online or in stores (mostly just migrated from the Releases & Bootlegs page), as well as highly detailed pages on two fanmade DVD projects; Sam Raimi's Super-8 Shorts, and Josh Becker's Super-8 Shorts. There have also been a number of little alterations made to the Within the Woods DVD page.

July 6, 2011 - The Evil Dead DVD Section Updates

The Evil Dead DVD section has been expanded to add highly detailed pages on two fanmade DVD projects; The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection, and and Book Of The Dead. Those looking at aquiring a Blu-ray release may be interested to read through the Book Of The Dead page, part of which details the catalogue of directorial tweaks & alterations to the Blu-ray transfer of the film, from the original theatrical version.

July 5, 2011 - Angela Featherstone Interview Online & Updates

You can now head over to the Features section to read an interview conducted with Angela Featherstone. She played Ash's love interest in the 'S-Mart' US theatrical ending of Army Of Darkness, and has since appeared in a list of subsequent film & TV roles including The Wedding Singer, Friends, Seinfeld, and The Twilight Zone. Angela has only recently come to the Sci-Fi & horror convention circuit and will be appearing at a number of US events later in the year, and possibly coming to the UK too.

Also, the Within The Woods Score section has finally been updated. Thanks to Scott Spiegel, some of the gaps have been filled, although three tracks are still unidentified. Expect another interview shortly, and further updates soon.

June 30, 2011 - More Interviews & Updates

I've just conducted a new interview which should be online in the next week or two, and have a separate interview penciled in next week, which should subsequently be added in the week following. I will reveal all as each one is completed. Also expect those minor additions to the Within The Woods Score section next week too. Keep checking back for further additions & updates!

June 9, 2011 - Scott Spiegel Interview Online

You can finally read the huge Scott Spiegel interview mentioned a few weeks back, via the Features section, again sorry it's all taken so long!.

The interview spans much of his career, covering everything from his early Super-8 days, to his present work. Scott acted, directed, and assisted with numerous Super-8 productions, with title roles in It's Murder, Clockwork, and Within The Woods among many others, then assisting during post production on The Evil Dead, and taking larger production roles in Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except & Evil Dead II, then directing Intruder, and going on to forge a career in Hollywood, initially more as a writer, then moving further in to big-budget producing & directing. He is presently producer on the popular & lucrative Hostel franchise, and is fast becoming one of Hollywood's big hitters.

May 8, 2011 - General Site Upgrades & Additions

I have added a number of site upgrades & additions. You'll now be able to see various streaming MP4 video files dotted around. I'm using the excellent free browser plug-in JW Player (much like YouTube pages). Currently there are the three trilogy trailers on each respective 'synopsis' page, the Book Of The Dead workprint trailer, a Book Of The Dead differences sequence, the Palace Pictures VHS ident, the Palace Pictures Evil Dead II Television Spots, an Evil Dead II workprint differences sequence, and a number of personal videos on the 'About Us' page. It goes without saying that I have not and will not be adding any of the Super-8 shorts or the movies, either as clips or in full, unless expressed permission is given by the copyright holders. You'll need JavaScript enabled, and the latest version of Flash installed in order to view them. Congratulations of you're using FireFox, as you'll see a little blend effect on the video titlebar text. Internet Explorer users won't get this as even the latest version still hasn't implemented the CSS drop shadow effect. So there you go.

I have also embedded a number of the various PDF files (in addition to the existing download links) so they can be read easily inline on the page, and may be adding a few new PDF items too. Both the PDF and video files, use a new snazzy page-space-saving sliding effect, so they remain hidden until you click on each banner.

The long awaited Scott Spiegel interview should be up within a week, just needs some polishing and a final clearance. Watch this space!

May 2, 2011 - Danny Hicks Interview Online

You can now view our Danny Hicks interview in the 'Features' section, sorry it's taken so long!

Danny's probably most famous for playing the role of Jake in Evil Dead II, and Bill Roberts in Scott Spiegel's slasher Intruder, along with a cameo role alongside Tim Quill in My Name Is Bruce, but has also appeared in numerous other feature films spanning the last 25 years, along with a whole host of US theatrical productions and commercials.

April 13, 2011 - Further Update

A further quick update; the second interview has just been completed, Danny Hicks kindly made time in his busy schedule for a phone conversation covering Evil Dead II, Intruder, and My Name Is Bruce, along with some exciting new projects on the horizon. It will take a few weeks to work through the audio, transcribing and formatting it into the final article, but expect this excellent read online soon!

April 9, 2011 - New Updates

This is just a quick status update, the first of the two long promised interviews has just been conducted. Scott Speigel graciously lent his time for a two hour phone interview covering his earliest Super-8 days up to Hostel III (currently in production), and everything in between. It will take a few weeks to work through the audio, transcribing and formatting it into the final article, but it will be worth the wait!

The second interview is scheduled for next week, more will be revealed once it's done. In other prospective new additions, thanks to Scott's assistance, the Within The Woods score section can finally be completed, expect that over the next few weeks too, and I have recently taught myself the intricate coding needed to stream hosted MP4 files using the excellent free browser plug-in JW Player (much like YouTube pages) while working on an entirely unrelated website, so expect tweaks of videos which are already available, and maybe some new files too, although just to note; due to the respective copyright holders wishes, this will certainly not include any of the Super-8 shorts themselves.

Lastly, well done to Evil Dead superfan Elise Holmes from Quebec in Canada, who was the extremely difficult 20 question quiz prize winner, but you're still welcome to have a go at the quiz and see if you can get them all right.

January 30, 2011 - New Additions

Two new pages have now been added to the 'Features' section. Firstly a piece about the real Egyptian 'Book of the Dead', the inspiration behind the trilogy's namesake. A sizable number of the surviving Egyptian 'Books of the Dead' were part of a one-off exhibition at the the British Museum in London, England, between November 4, 2010 to March 6, 2011. Many examples had never been seen before, drawn from the British Museum’s unparalleled collection, with the oldest examples over 3,500 years old!

Secondly, an extremely difficult 20 question quiz, which covers production and details on both Within The Woods & The Evil Dead. All the answers are out there to be found, with many on this site, and some questions are easier than others, so have a go and see how you do. The first person to get them all wins a secret prize!

Homefully more additions will be along shortly, so keep checking back!

January 28, 2011 - General Updates & Additions

It has been around 6 months since any new updates or additions to this site. Beyond general daily related news (which you can follow at the excellent blog EvilDeadNews.com), coming up with completely new, innovative & truly worthy ideas over and above to the huge amount of material already present here, isn't all that easy.

There are two interviews in the works, along with a page about the real Egyptian 'Book of the Dead', currently on display in the British Museum up to March 6, 2011, plus a stupidly difficult Evil Dead quiz! If anyone out there has ideas or requests for material they'd like to see added to the website, please do get in contact via the email address at the bottom of this page.

June 6, 2010 - Trilogy Props Reference Guide

Head over to the 'Features' page to see a new page, an Evil Dead trilogy props reference guide, which draws together the various memorable props from The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, & Army Of Darkness, along with their possible availability as originals & replicas.

Some among you reading it, may know alot about subjects such as firearms, cars, or antique clocks, so if you have any additional information or corrections about the items listed, or you want to request an additional item be researched and added to the list, please get in touch.

May 29, 2010 - Tom Sullivan interview

Head over to the 'Features' page to read an email interview conducted with Tom Sullivan. It covers his involvement in the early Super-8 days, as well as his work on Within The Woods, the Evil Dead trilogy, and beyond. We're still actively seeking other interviews, so expect further updates in the future.

May 2, 2010 - Super-8 Origins section & Josh Becker's Super-8 Shorts

Having now recieved the five Josh Becker Super-8 shorts DVDs, there are a number of new additions; If you head on over to the 'Super-8 Origins' section, in the 'Full Shorts List' page a number of the entries for Josh Becker shorts have been expanded upon, and with screenshots added or replaced, the 'Releases & Bootlegs' page has a number of similar related additions, along with the 'Photos & Artwork' page, and a couple of updated screenshots here & there across the rest of the site.

For anyone who owns the French DVD of Alien Apocalypse containing the stunning transfers of Oedipus Rex & The Blind Waiter as extras, the rest of these new shorts are similar in quality and well worth buying.

April 8, 2010 - About Us section and other Additions

An entirely new section; 'About Us', has now been added, and some little additions have been made to a number of pages including the 'Super-8 Origins' section; 'Releases & Bootlegs', 'Full shorts List' and 'Photos & Artwork' pages, the 'Within The Woods' section; 'Releases & Bootlegs' page, as well as a couple of new items on the collectables page.

While not strictly related to this site, there is one other major piece of news really worthy of mention. Josh Becker has begun selling excellent quality professional DVD transfers of a number of the Super-8 shorts through his website. Currently there are five shorts discs available; disc one has Stryker's War, disc two has The Blind Waiter & Oedipus Rex, disc three has Holding It, disc four has Acting And Reacting & The Final Round, and disc five has Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter, The Case of the Topanga Pearl, Super Student, and Public Enemy Revisited.

Here is a direct link to the DVD purchase page on Josh's website. All five DVDs are already in the mail to us, so expect some interesting additions & updates to the site once they arrive.

March 21, 2010 - EvilDeadChainsaws section Additions

Since closing down EvilDeadChainsaws.com, a fair number of people have made contact asking for advice or help with their own chainsaw projects, Rather than continuing to reply to each individual request, I have decided to share some of the information & experience built up over the years, online for everyone. Head over to the 'Features' section to read more.

February 10, 2010 - Collectables Section Updated

The 'Collectables' index page has had it's first big update, with around 50 additions; there are now 816 individual items listed. We have to say a big thank you to everyone who contacted us with new suggestions & additions. Even so, the section will never be 100% complete, so if you see that we've missed anything, or want to point out any corrections, please do get in contact.

January 19, 2010 - Collectables Section

The main 'Collectables' index page is now online. It aims to be the ultimate comprehensive reference list of all the the official and unofficial Evil Dead trilogy related merchandise available in the past or present. The material listed, ranges from mass produced items down to one-off fan made items, and everything in between. Rather than spilt the items down in to sub-page after sub-page, we've decided to have everything together on one huge page, so it might take a minute or so to to load as there are nearly 800 individual items listed, all with pictures.

We've decided to restrict the 'Collectables' section to just the main index page for the time being, with a long term goal of expanding it to include 'More Details' sub-pages linked from the main list, with additional photos, specs & information about each item.

Because of the vast array of official and unofficial items which have been made over the years, knowing about & cataloguing every single past present & future item ever produced is virtually impossible, and the section can never really be certified 100% complete. It will simply remain 'in progress' for the foreseeable future, with periodic updates of new items from time to time. If you have anything we don't, please get in contact and let us know so we can add it to this list.

January 2, 2010 - Army Of Darkness Version Differences

Seasons greetings and a happy new year to everyone out there!

We have just added a new page; 'Different Versions', to the Army Of Darkness section, giving a highly detailed breakdown of the differences between the various retail Army Of Darkness versions/cuts. It compares the US Theatrical Cut, the Director's Cut, the International Cut and the US Television Version.

We're still working away on the 'Collectables' section, and currently have around 600 individual Evil Dead trilogy related items, and rising! Expect the vast main indexing page to be online soon, with the huge number of 'more details' pages to be added over the next few months.

December 22, 2009 - Evil Dead 4 and Collectables additions

The Evil Dead 4 page is now online. It explores the various prospects of a new Evil Dead film, either as a further instalment to the existing series, a complete Remake, or a Freddy vs Jason vs Ash movie.

Also, the bare skeleton of the last section still under construction; 'Collectables', is online, although it currently has no items listed. As this section will be huge, it will likely be updated as each batch of items is catalogued. Given the vast array of past, present and as yet unknown future Evil Dead Trilogy related items, this section can never be certified 100% complete. It will simply remain 'in progress' for the foreseeable future, with periodic updates of new items from time to time.

One other little addition; As someone emailed us and asked about it, I have added a short piece to The Evil Dead section 'Score' page about the song Shelly & Scott sing while driving to the cabin.

December 11, 2009 - Army Of Darkness Section Now Complete

We have just added the Army Of Darkness section 'Deleted Scenes' page, which means the Army Of Darkness section is now complete. Although quite comprehensive, we may still expand it yet further to include the differences between each of the retail DVD versions, rather than just the differences & omissions from the shooting script. Lookout of the Evil Dead 4 section next.

December 6, 2009 - Cheryl Guttridge Interview & Army Of Darkness section

Head over to the [newly re-ordered] 'Features' page to read an email interview conducted with Cheryl Guttridge. She acted in numerous Super-8 productions, had a leading role in Josh Becker's feature film; Thou Shalt No Kill... Except, as well as appearing as a Fake Shemp in The Evil Dead. We're still actively seeking other interviews, so expect further updates in the future.

Eight of the nine pages for the Army Of Darkness section are complete, but the 'Deleted Scenes' page is taking a little longer to work through than planned. As everything else is done, we have opened the other eight pages rather than keep it all offline. The remaining page should be online shortly, and the Evil Dead 4 section is next on the list.

November 26, 2009 - Josh Becker Interview

We have just added an interview with director Josh Becker to the 'Features' page. He directed & assisted with numerous Super-8 productions, along with writing & directing a list of feature films including Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except & Running Time, and was also a crew member on The Evil Dead managing a large portion of the lighting and sound, along with cameo roles in Evil Dead II & Army Of Darkness, and publishing a number of interesting books about the world of film making.

Expect further interviews to be added over the next few weeks.

November 19, 2009 - Tim Quill Interview

We have recently conducted an interview with Actor Tim Quill. He had roles in numerous Super-8 productions, along with many of Sam's later feature films, including an appearance in each of the Spiderman films, and perhaps most famously playing the Blacksmith in Army Of Darkness. To read it, please see the features page.

On the subject of general site updates; further interesting interviews are in the pipeline, and we're currently working through the large Army Of Darkness section which is about 50% complete, and should be online in the next few weeks.

October 31, 2009 - Site Online

The site & forums are now open. The 'News & Updates', 'Super-8 Origins', 'Within The Woods', 'Features' & 'Links' sections are all complete, along with the 'The Evil Dead' and 'Evil Dead 2' pages of the 'Trilogy' section. The 'Army Of Darkness', 'Evil Dead 4' and 'Collectables' sections are still in progress, but given the amount of detail covered, it may be quite some time before everything is 100% finished. The three pages in the 'Features' section are complete, but keep an eye out for further additions in the future. It's worth noting that we have made a deliberate decision not to cover the next generation computer games or 'Evil Dead: The Musical' at the moment.