While the original three Evil Dead movies all had the same lead character, Ash Williams played by Bruce Campbell, the three movies that followed have all more or less felt standalone. None of the lead characters carry over, nor does the direct storyline. Or so we thought! Evil Dead Burn does carry over in certain ways with the previous movie, Evil Dead Rise. And while one aspect is pretty minor, the second, taking place during the Evil Dead Burn post-credits scene, is more overt. It also, according to me, makes no f***ing sense.
The Evil Dead Burn Opening Scene
The opening of Evil Dead Burn gives us the reawakening of the deadites via Joseph (Hunter Doohan) playing a recording from his occultist grandfather. The recording says that he found, and subsequently hid, a sacred dagger that can kill the Evil Dead. The opening scene of Evil Dead Burn then quickly cuts to under a lake, where we see a deadite open her eyes.
She might not be instantly recognizable, but this is Jessica, the victim of deaditism (not a word) from the wraparound segments from the previous movie, Evil Dead Rise. Jessica then pops out of the lake and kills a couple of guys fishing in the rain before trudging on to the wooded road only for Will (George Pullar) to plow into her with his car. This then sets the entire plot of the movie in motion.
Jessica doesn’t have the instant recognition you might expect for a carryover character, but the character that arrives in the post-credits Evil Dead Burn scene definitely does.
The Post-Credits Evil Dead Burn Scene Brings Back Ellie From Evil Dead Rise
After the whole of the credits, and a mid-credits scene which sees the deadite Grandma Polly (Maude Davey) dragging herself down the road and attacking a motorist, we cut back into the funeral home from earlier in the movie for the Evil Dead Burn post-credits scene. In this scene, the funeral director (Greta van den Brink) and her elementary-age daughter put urns of cremains on a shelf. The daughter asks why they have all these dead people here. The director shares that sometimes families don’t come and pick up the cremains, and she keeps them for a while.
She then goes to check on a knock at the door, leaving the little girl alone with the urns. She looks at and reads aloud some comically large name plates. The first says “Christopher Leroy.” For the life of me, I can’t figure out who this is supposed to be. It’s not a character in the movies. My best guess is it’s the name of a friend of director Sébastien Vaniček. The second name we hear in the Evil Dead Burn post-credits scene is “Ellie Bixler.” Now this IS a character in the Evil Dead universe.
Just then, we hear a woman’s voice, and the girl naturally thinks it’s her mother. But it isn’t. She looks in the mirror, and instead of her own reflection, we see Ellie, the mother who becomes a deadite in Evil Dead Rise. Yes, Ellie is back in the post-credits scene of Evil Dead Burn.
Played by Alyssa Sutherland, Ellie in deadite form, with her red hair and devilish grin, was far and away the standout image of that movie. A great performance. After a quick Marx Bros. routine with the girl and Ellie mirroring each other, Ellie is suddenly behind the girl for real. She reaches out and snaps the girl’s neck before saying, “Mommy’s back.” This is a reference to the best line in Rise: “Mommy’s with the maggots now.”
Why This Evil Dead Burn Post-Credits Scene Makes No Fucking Sense
This Evil Dead Burn post-credits scene implies that Ellie’s body was cremated following the events of Evil Dead Rise and that that movie’s two survivors, Beth (Lily Sullivan) and Kassie (Nell Fisher), left those remains at the funeral home. But…no. The final act of Evil Dead Rise finds Beth and Kassie fighting off a horrifying bodily amalgam of Ellie and her two deaditified kids, Bridget and Danny. Using a chainsaw, Beth chops up this nightmare family and forces it into the whirring blades of a tree shredder. Blood and gore go a-flyin’.
What I’m saying is, there’s nothing left of their bodies at all. So what exactly was cremated? Did the authorities scoop up the hunks of Ellie viscera and take that to a funeral home? And how could they have separated the Ellie bits from the Bridget and Danny bits? What CSI got that job?
None of this matters really anyway, because the Evil Dead Burn post-credits scene fundamentally breaks the rules of the Evil Dead universe. Since the first movie, and in every single movie since, including the TV series, the incorporeal demon entities possess the bodies of people, turning them into deadites. Established time and again, the way to destroy a deadite is totally bodily dismemberment and pulverization. The demonic entity then dissipates and either goes into hiding or possesses another person.
At no point in the Evil Dead universe is a deadite ever a ghost, and never does the demonic entity keep the visage of a previous host. Once the host body is destroyed, the demon goes elsewhere. This whole Evil Dead Burn post-credits scene breaks the laws of the movie (albeit fictional, I know, I’m not delusional. I’m just a pedantic nerd) simply to bring back the newer movies’ most recognizable and iconic character.
Why It Matters
It doesn’t. Ultimately, who cares? And good for Alyssa Sutherland getting another paycheck. But it is a wholly cynical studio move to try to drum up excitement for the next movie, Evil Dead Wrath, due out in 2028 from director Francis Galluppi. I’m clearly in more of a minority when it comes to my feelings on Evil Dead Burn compared to several critics, but I can’t imagine any of them found this scene good or sensical.
Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for Nerdist. He hosts the weekly pop culture deep-dive podcast Laser Focus. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Letterboxd.
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