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"Who will be next possessed by the evil dead?

Will anyone survive this night of terror? I won't tell.
See this movie, you won't regret it!!!!!
The Greatest Horror Movie of All Time!!!!!"

-- What is this? Ad copy?

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Should I merge Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness with this page? They're just stubs, and they're probably going to stay that way.

I'm trying to expand them a bit. 209.149.235.254 20:56, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Dispute over 4th film 2 References 3 Dispute of ED:IV Continued + AoD Reference to old movie! 4 Video game article 5 Trivia Sections - Can People Stop Adding Them Because They're Tacky

[edit] Dispute over 4th film

Conflicting texts:

Raimi has been unable to find funding for a new Evil Dead movie. There have been rumors of a movie staring Ash, Bruce Campbell's character in the Evil Dead films, in a sequel to Freddy Vs. Jason, referred to as Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash.

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Against popular belief of many rumours, there is NO plan for an Evil Dead IV, a fact confirmed by both Campbell and Raimi on countless instances.

Moving them here until a source is cited on the issue of another sequel vel non.

[edit] References

The page says that references to Evil Dead have been made in several productions, and then lists those productions. When you go to those production's pages, the references are not listed. I'm not saying they should be listed on the page of the production, but they should be listed on the Evil Dead page, or else the mention should be omitted. In any event, I think most people, when they see something like this, are going to want to know exactly what the references are. --Corvun 06:03, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. I will do a little digging, although I'm willing to bet that the list comes from imdb. -Parallel or Together? 13:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dispute of ED:IV Continued + AoD Reference to old movie!

Campbell confirmed both on his website and as an extra in the recent release of the "Evil Dead: Regeneration" video game (Multi-system) that there was interest in doing ED:IV, but Rami's schedule was what was stopping any kind of production --According to Campbell-- and that the only way they were going to do ED:IV (past tense) was if Rami decided against doing Spiderman II. While I speculate it's still possible I imagine there will be yet another sequel to Spiderman in the works and that we shouldn't be expecting it any time soon, however I don't doubt we can expect a Bruce Campbell Cameo in that movie.

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In addition I also recently discovered a reference in Army of Darkness to an old sci-fi movie, a black & white flick by the name of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" I'll be requesting a page be done on that soon, but in the mean time I added the reference to the reference section. Correct me if you see something out of place or spelled wrong, or if you think you could word it better by all means...

P-battery 17:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)p-bat.

Reporting on the reference to The Day The Earth Stood Still is a bit like reporting that the sky is blue. You did not discover anything. It's not a hidden easter egg, it's a flat-in-your-face joke that is repeated three times. This endless overexplaining and listing of movie jokes on wikipedia is... well, it's not wonderful. Is this what wikipedia is really for? Sorry if it seems like I'm singling you out here, it's just something I find annoying generally. 24.33.28.52 04:29, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Whoa there, cowboy. The section was removed long ago, no need to come in here and start flaming people. Take a deep breath, count to 10, go read WP:GF and WP:BITE, and then come back. Aguerriero (talk) 14:38, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Video game article

I don't know if anyone cares, but I made an article for the old Evil Dead Commodore 64 game. There was a link to it in the Evil Dead footer box, so I figured, why not. Who made that footer box? Aguerriero 17:31, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I made the footer box. It probably needs work, but it seemed good at the time. --Myles Long 17:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia Sections - Can People Stop Adding Them Because They're Tacky

Nearly every film article I go to there is a trivia section, which frankly, are pathetic tripe. If someone has decent information add it to the flow of the article, not the easy option to set up a lame trivia section. LuciferMorgan 19:33, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Seconded. I don't need to be reading about JASON GOES TO HELL in this article for instance. When some punk band writes a lame song with an Ash sample, it's not a trivia question about THE EVIL DEAD. That kind of stuff is intrusive. And for gods sake stop explaining jokes. The reason people laughed is that they got the joke already. Explaining it ruins the fun. 24.33.28.52 04:32, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, IMHO, the list of translated titles used in other countries are not exactly useful: they'll always be incomplete and don't really add anything about the film. --Outlyer 17:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)