The Evil Dead franchise is not one that is known for having a methodically planned canon. Evil Dead II is partially a remake of The Evil Dead and changes a lot of details, the end of Evil Dead II doesn’t really line up with the opening of Army Of Darkness, and the television series Ash vs. Evil Dead didn’t actually have the rights to reference that third film. Add in the fact that director Fede Álvarez’s Evil Dead from 2013 doesn’t specifically tie into the other films and you fully understand the messiness of the big picture continuity – but that didn’t stop writer/director Lee Cronin from trying to make a bit of sense of it all in the making of Evil Dead Rise, specifically with new lore surrounding the Necronomicon.
In the upcoming 2023 movie, a recording found with the notorious Book Of The Dead reveals that the tome in Evil Dead Rise is one of three different volumes, and that detail fascinated me so much that I had to ask Cronin about it during the movie’s virtual press day earlier this month. The filmmaker explained that it was something that he specifically discussed with Evil Dead co-creator Sam Raimi, and noted that it was his effort to naturally link the latest chapter of the series to the others. Said Cronin,
