The Lore Implications of Evil Dead Burn:
So I’m the biggest Evil Dead nerd and know way too much trivia and lore about this franchise, which means I loved Evil Dead Burn and what it means. So I just wanted to share some random things, what I personally think might happen, what is official, and whatnot.
In Army of Darkness, there are 3 Necronomicon's. 2 are "fake", and 1 is the real copy, which Ash takes back to Castle Kandar. Now, in Evil Dead Rise, this was retconned, and now all 3 copies are actually 3 different volumes of the Necronomicon, and Ash just had to grab his specific copy. So 1 copy is the one Ash brings back to the castle, where it is found by Raymond Knowby and taken to his cabin. This volume is the one Ash keeps. The second volume is the one featured in Evil Dead (2013), which is easily recognisable as the one with Frankenstein stitching all over it. The final volume is the one with teeth, featured in Evil Dead Rise. When I watched Evil Dead Burn, I was a little worried that they were going to retcon it again and introduce a fourth book. They did not do this, thank god, and instead, there is no book. There is this journal, which belonged to the Grandfather, and he studied one of the volumes and kept some pages, but it doesn't count as a book. What is interesting, however, is that the book he studied is actually the volume used in Evil Dead (2013).
So, The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 take place within two nights in October, 1982. This means that in October of 1982, Raymond Knowby retrieved the first volume of the Necronomicon and brought it back to his cabin, leading to the events of the original trilogy. What's interesting is that the Grandfather in Evil Dead Burn was part of a cult studying the Necronomicon, back in 1983, one year after the events of Evil Dead 2. Not only that, but they studied a different book, the one used in 2013, and Ash still has his own volume. Now we don't know much about this cult, but we can infer a few things. For one, I think somehow this cult leads into the prologue of Evil Dead (2013), since we still don't actually have any knowledge of what led to that book being there, or that girl being possessed, or why they used a cabin that they didn't own. It's likely that those creepy people were part of the cult itself, hence why they knew how to use the book.
In The Evil Dead, Raymond Knowby had both a volume of the Necronomicon and the Kandarian Dagger in the cellar. Both were found at Castle Kandar, after the events of Army Of Darkness. Now the Kandarian Dagger has a very noticeable design, with a skull on the handle, and the blade itself is a spine. Evil Dead (2013) and Evil Dead Rise both lacked the Kandarian Daggers, leading to the assumption that only one existed. In Evil Dead Burn, the Kandarian Dagger makes another appearance; however, it looks different. It's shorter and actually looks more like a dagger as opposed to a blade made of bones. It's not officially stated, but I like to believe this is a different Kandarian Dagger. Just as every volume of the Necronomicon looks different, the same is true of the dagger. I think this is the Kandarian Dagger from the 2013 book. The reason the Grandfather doesn't have it is that the book somehow ended up in Mia's family cabin, likely because another cultist was trusted with it, while the Grandfather was trusted with the dagger. This is why the dagger doesn't appear in Evil Dead (2013).
At the end of Evil Dead Rise, Ellie's deadite is shredded in a wood chipper and completely disappears. Despite this, Ellie returns at the end of Evil Dead Burn and looks exactly the same. So what does this mean, and how did this even happen? Firstly, this isn't the first time this has happened in the series. Cheryl's deadite was completely destroyed by the end of The Evil Dead, and her corpse was melted into mush, yet she returned in Ash VS Evil Dead. Henrietta was blown up at the end of Evil Dead 2, but also returns in Ash VS Evil Dead. It seems that the most powerful and impactful deadites can return, almost the "leader" deadites, which is why somebody like Scotty or Ed couldn't return, but Cheryl and Henrietta can. The "leader" deadite of Evil Dead Rise was definitely Ellie, who got everybody killed and possessed, and survived the longest. It could also be whichever deadite affected them the most, since Cheryl and Henrietta definitely impacted Ash and Annie the most out of them all, and Ellie is, again, the most important deadite from Evil Dead Rise. Also, in her movie, they do show at the end that the deadites are still there. It can be interpreted that the same one that possessed Ellie, now freed from her body, took over Jessica, leading to the prologue. Then, in Evil Dead Burn, she gets William possessed and kickstarts the events of those, killing Jessica's body in the process. Then perhaps she really liked being in Ellie's body, so she decided to remanifest as her again, despite Ellie's original body being shredded to bits. Perhaps Ellie's ashes helped with that whole reanimation as well. I also like to think that her murdering that child helped, like maybe her killing the kid gave her the energy she needed to fully come back. Either way, I'm fine with Ellie being back, and wouldn't mind her becoming a recurring threat. Maybe if Beth or even Mia return, Ellie could be their main nemesis, like how Ash constantly had to fight Evil Ash's, Henrietta and Linda.
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