Evil Dead References

[Kain]

 

[Kain]

^ I'm not sure that counts as a reference.

 

[Kain]

Definitely fan art.

 

[Morsoth]

I've read the 12-volumes manga series School-Live! (Gakkou Gurashi!) over the weekend, a story focusing on young girls surviving together during a zombie apocalypse. In the Volume 6 (Chapter 31), the girls leaves the school and find refuge in a very familiar store! Here, the store has been renamed "G-Mart", but the series rename all the famous locations or brands (probably to avoid troubles).

 

[Morsoth]

Another reference found in a comic. In Afterlife with Archie #1, Sabrina takes the Necronomicon to reanimate Jughead's dead dog. The Necronomicon from the story is more linked with the Lovecraft/Cthulhu Mythos, however, they used the incantation from The Evil Dead:

 

[Hurley]

So this is probably a weird stretch but the British journalist Adam Curtis recently made a new documentary miniseries for the BBC called Can't Get You Out Of My Head. In his work, Curtis often uses horror music to underline some of the more disturbing things he's talking about. Over the past several years I noticed that for example he often uses the Ennio Morricone's score for The Thing. But with Can't Get You Out Of My Head, multiple times in each of the six episodes, he uses bits and pieces from the original Joe LoDuca's score for the first Evil Dead movie. And it's kinda interesting to hear this music in the new context, though at the same time it's really distracting because I know that music like the back of my hand. So it's not an Evil Dead reference per say, but I think it's at least a neat piece of trivia.

 

[Godzilla]

The episode "Grave Sights" of Regular show has the two main characters hosting a scary movie night at the park they work at. The movie they choose being an Italian cult classic with zombies is a shout out to Zombi 2, but the hero of the film is very obviously modeled after Ash Williams. No chainsaw hand, but he looks exactly like Ash and spends all his screen time kicking undead ass and making cheesy one liners.

 

[Hurley]

Anybody else watching The Midnight Club on Netflix?

 

[eViL DeAdiTe]

Patton Oswalt on Conan, discussing the merits of hand made films versus potential AI generated films

 

[Swofty]

Patton Oswalt on Conan, discussing the merits of hand made films versus potential AI generated films

Nice. Patton Oswalt has remembered almost word for word the late 80's Jonathon Ross/Sam Raimi interview on 'The Incredibly Strange Film Show'.

 

[MCT28]

One of the recent episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants titled Necro-Nom-Nom-Nom-I-Con features a Necronomicon clearly based on the Evil Dead II design. Mistaken for a breakfast cookbook, the Necronomicon begins to turn the hungry customers of the Krusty Krab into breakfast food monsters before the book becomes it's own living food behemoth.

 

[MCT28]

One of the recent episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants titled Necro-Nom-Nom-Nom-I-Con features a Necronomicon clearly based on the Evil Dead II design. Mistaken for a breakfast cookbook, the Necronomicon begins to turn the hungry customers of the Krusty Krab into breakfast food monsters before the book becomes it's own living food behemoth.

Also it's apparently not the first time a recent SpongeBob has used the Necronomicon. A 2019 episode called Senior Discount has the "Book of the Filleted".

 

[Nick el Ass]

 

[MCT28]

The 2023 film BlackBerry has a character (the film's writer/director Matt Johnson) wearing an Army of Darkness t-shirt about an hour and a half into the movie.

 

[MCT28]

The 2001 Japanese horror film Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies has a weapon called "Bru-" I mean, "Blues Campbell's Right Hand 2", a mini chainsaw that is intentionally designed for one to stick their hand into. Once it is introduced with it's own commercial, it is occasionally used throughout the rest of the movie.

 

[Kain]

There's thrash metal band called EvilDead:

 

[MCT28]

Sam Raimi's own CRIMEWAVE contains not only a reference to The Evil Dead, but a bit of foreshadowing for Evil Dead 2.

About 15 minutes into the film, a newspaper swept up by the wind lands directly onto the camera. One headline on the paper reads: "Military seal off Tennessee murder site. Time-space disturbance discovered." Raimi had already settled on introducing the time-travel/medieval plot for Evil Dead's sequel shortly after the original was released, even taking out this advertisement in 1984 (before Crimewave was even released) to announce the production of Evil Dead II.

Later in the film, a news report seems to elaborate on this aforementioned "Tennessee murder site", specifying that five people had died in a cabin in Morristown (Morristown is also named on the newspaper, though it is a bit hard to see).

 

[MCT28]

In the Marvel comic Night of The Living Deadpool #2 (2014), Deadpool leads a group of zombie apocalypse survivors on a mission to find a new safe haven to settle down at. Of course, all of the locations they visit are from various zombie movies and TV shows, with the Evil Dead cabin being one of the stops. This series was written by Cullen Bunn, who would go on to write the Army of Darkness: Ash In Space comic series later that year and write the foreword to the Art of Army of Darkness hardcover book in 2015.

 

[Swofty]

Sam Raimi's own CRIMEWAVE contains not only a reference to The Evil Dead, but a bit of foreshadowing for Evil Dead 2.

About 15 minutes into the film, a newspaper swept up by the wind lands directly onto the camera. One headline on the paper reads: "Military seal off Tennessee murder site. Time-space disturbance discovered." Raimi had already settled on introducing the time-travel/medieval plot for Evil Dead's sequel shortly after the original was released, even taking out this advertisement in 1984 (before Crimewave was even released) to announce the production of Evil Dead II.

Later in the film, a news report seems to elaborate on this aforementioned "Tennessee murder site", specifying that five people had died in a cabin in Morristown (Morristown is also named on the newspaper, though it is a bit hard to see).

Wow, nice find. I'd never noticed that.

 

[MCT28]

Dynamite's Elvira: Mistress of The Dark #8 has Vlad The Impaler dropping a "I'll swallow your soul" line, which Elvira is quick to point out the source of...

I wanted to say there was another Evil Dead reference earlier in the series (or maybe one of the sequel series), but I can't seem to find it.