The Evil Dead series is a fan-favorite among horror hounds out there. We’ve had some incredible single releases of the Ash Williams saga, but never (mostly) in one package. Lionsgate Home Entertainment is putting out The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead II, and the entire Ash vs Evil Dead series on 4K and Blu-ray. That’s notably missing Army of Darkness (buy the excellent Blu-ray from Scream Factory) and the Evil Dead remake. This release does have The Evil Dead DVD that contains over three hours of bonus content and a book for collectors.
Army of Darkness is missing because it’s a rights nightmare due to the De Laurentiis Company. That film didn’t factor into the timeline for Ash vs Evil Dead. You can pick up the box set on Amazon today for $53.30, which is the lowest it’ll likely ever be.
Special Features of The Evil Dead Groovy Collection
THE EVIL DEAD 4K BLU-RAY + BLU-RAY
- Audio Commentary with Writer-Director Sam Raimi, Producer Robert G. Tapert, and Star Bruce Campbell
THE EVIL DEAD DVD
- One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead
- The Evil Dead: Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor
- Life After Dead: The Ladies of The Evil Dead
- The Ladies of The Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell
- Unconventional
- At the Drive-In
- Reunion Panel
- Discovering The Evil Dead
- Make-Up Test
- Trailer
- TV Spots
EVIL DEAD II 4K BLU-RAY + BLU-RAY
- Bloody and Groovy, Baby! — Tribute to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II
- Audio Commentary with Writer-Director Sam Raimi, Actor Bruce Campbell, Cowriter Scott Spiegel, and Special Makeup Effects Artist Greg Nicotero
- Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead II
- Cabin Fever: Behind the Scenes of Evil Dead II
- Road to Wadesboro: Revisiting the Shooting Location with Filmmaker Tony Elwood
- Evil Dead II: Behind the Screams
- The Gore the Merrier
- Still Galleries
- Audio Commentary
“ASH VS EVIL DEAD” THE COMPLETE COLLECTION BLU-RAY
Season 1
- Inside the World of Ash
- How to Kill a Deadite
- Best of Ash
- Audio Commentaries
Season 2:
- Season 2 First Look
- Inside the World of “Ash vs Evil Dead”
- Up Your Ash
- Women Who Kick Ash
- Puppets Are Cute
- Dawn of the Spawn
- Bringing Henrietta Back
- The Delta
- How To Kill a Deadite
- Fatality Mash-Up
- Audio Commentaries
Season 3:
- Season Overview
- Inside the World of “Ash vs Evil Dead”
- Audio Commentaries
TECHNICAL SPECS
- Subtitles:
- The Evil Dead: English, Spanish, English SDH
- Evil Dead II: Spanish, French, German, English SDH
- Ash vs Evil Dead: Spanish, French, English SDH (Spanish and French Seasons Two and Three only)
- 4K Blu-ray Audio:
- The Evil Dead: English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD
- Evil Dead II: English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, Spanish 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio, French 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, German 2.0 Mono DTS-HD Master Audio
- PLUS: DOLBY VISION
- Blu-ray Audio:
- Ash vs Evil Dead: English 7.1 Dolby TrueHD, Spanish 2.0 Dolby Surround, French 5.1 Dolby Audio (French Seasons Two and Three only)
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Evil Dead 2 took place in the late 1982 same as Evil Dead 3: army of darkness took place in the late 1984 or 1985. even a comic book storylines of Army of Darkness from the third movie took place lately in 1980’s starting Ashes to Ashes #1and the other storylines that took place in the late 1990’s Darkman, Xena, Marvel Zombies, Danger Girl, Re-animator, Hack/Slash, & Vampirella. Good thing about Freddy vs Jason in 2000’s even saves Albama in 2010’s also Ash vs Evil Dead should have came out early in 2011-2014 before a remake in 2015 that would make sense.