When reading this list (in fact, any of them, but this especially, remember to treat a lot of the listings as trivia, or just things to notice, rather than "mistakes" per se.

Evil Dead II

In one scene, Ash finds some pages from the Necronomicon lying in a mud puddle. He picks up the pages, and they're dry.

Further down the passage, Ash notices some pages sitting on top of a ledge. You see weight shift from his right arm (where he attached the chainsaw) to his left, and reach for the papers with his right hand.

There are 5 different colours of blood used throughout the movie. Ash always gets soaked by blood (either chopping Linda's head up, or hacking Professor Nobee to pieces), but always ends up dry in the next shot.

In this film, the flashbacks show Ash and his girlfriend being alone in the woods. In the first film, there was a group of them.

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Army of Darkness

The Necronomicon from the previous film, Evil Dead 2, looks different from the one in this film.

There are only five and a half to six quarts of blood in the human body; not enough to create such a geyser.

When all is back to normal and Ash is back at his job at S-Mart, a witch shows up and starts trashing the place. Ash is knocked behind the sporting goods counter, where there is (of course) a cabinet containing guns. Ash then jumps up and blows the witch away. I have never seen a shotgun (or rifle?) which can hold about 30 shots, which is how many he fired.

During the final showdown between Ash and Bad Ash, Bad Ash tosses a dagger at Ash. The way he flings it, it seems to land sideways at his feet, but a camera cut shows it to stab the stone beneath Ash as he rolls to the side.

When Bad Ash is separating from Good Ash, Bad Ash is on the right, and controls the right side of the body, including the mechanical hand. So when they separate, Ash should get a new hand, and Bad Ash should have the mechanical hand. When they actually do separate, why does Ash have the mechanical hand? [Having now seen the film, I personally think that Bad Ash doesn't control the right hand side as such, that's just where he grows from, and so when they finally split, Good Ash stays exactly as he was].

When Ash is sucked through the Vortex at the beginning you can see the rope around him. You can only see it for a split second when you see him fly through the woods.

When Ash emerges from the Vortex, he falls on what looks like mats. When he coughs, the mats are gone.

Ash starts out by landing in a strange, unknown desert....in England....how many deserts are there in England?  Two seconds later he is no longer in a desert anyway.

During the big battle between Good Ash and Bad Ash, in the background you can see two living soldiers fighting each other.

When Ash opens his trunk to get out some useful items, there is a Fangoria magazine and the cover is for Army of Darkness.

At the end of Evil Dead II, Ash is surrounded by soldiers. When a deadite comes swooping down, he blows it away with his shotgun, and is heralded by the soldiers. However, in Army of Darkness none of this takes place, and Ash is accused of being a spy. [This is similar to the difference between the first and second films, although this is rather more drastic and plot altering].

When Lord Arthur shoots the crossbow at the fleeing prisoner near the beginning, the camera angle changes to that of the arrow. For a moment, before the camera changes angles again, the arrow is going slower than the guy running.


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