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No. This film is an adaptation of the 1981 film The Evil Dead, which was originally written and directed by Sam Raimi. Raimi serves as a producer and creative constant on this film.

Leading up to the film's release there was some fan debate as to whether this may actually be a spin-off or sequel that is set within the continuity of Sam Raimi's original Evil Dead films, with a different set of characters tormented by the same demons from the original films. However, the film is actually a re-imagining of the story of the first two films. There are many continuity elements that directly contradict things from the original films, such as the owner of the cabin, how the Book of the Dead reacts to fire, and the way in which the demon possession occurs and reacts in people. However, both Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness purposefully contradicted story elements from each previous film, so anything is possible in future sequels. Bruce Campbell said at WonderCon 2013 that he hopes for a crossover movie between his character and the surviving character of Evil Dead (2013).

Originally in the The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II the cabin is owned by the family of Professor Knowby, the doctor who discovered the Book of the Dead and brought it to his cabin for study. In those films the main characters are staying at the cabin as trespassers, believing the cabin to be long abandoned. In this new film the cabin belongs to the family of Mia and David, the main characters. They arrive at their family cabin for the first time in years and discover that in the interim unknown people used the cabin basement to exorcise a demon and after doing so left the Book of the Dead behind. As for the book itself, in the first movie fire destroyed it and all its evil minions along with it. In the new film the book can not be burned and in fact is never destroyed by the end of the film. The book is also different in appearance, but it has always looked different in every film of the franchise.

The most immediate difference is that the demons of this film are more directly tied to the physical laws of nature. In order for a possession to occur a physical invasion must happen first. Mia is possessed after being violated by the trees. Olivia is possessed after ingesting Mia's vomit. Natalie is infested by a bite to the hand and bloody tongue kiss from Mia. And Eric is most slowly possessed by consistent, incidental contact with all the demon blood. Even the trees were physically possessed by the Abomination's burial and its corpse feeding the forest. In the original films, physical invasion by a demon assured possession but was not necessary. Likewise, the demons can not effect the physical world like they could in the original films. They can not float in the air or morph their host bodies into non-human monsters. Their only metaphysical ability seems to be closing and locking cabin doors, where in the original they could effect the cabin in many other ways (though it may be debated that some of that was Ash losing his mind). The demons are also never called Dead-ites, which is the term commonly used in Army of Darkness, and the common ventricular by fans to refer to all Evil Dead creatures.

After the dog is not seen for a while, David finds a trail of blood that leads to a hole under the shed. He looks and sees the dog whimpering at the end of the hole. By the time he reaches the dog and pulls it out it seems that the dog has died and David is upset. Nothing else is mentioned or seen of the dog afterward but it can be assumed that David may have laid the dog aside somewhere to bury later, since the next scene is him going to confront Mia about what happened.

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During the end credits the voice recorder audio of Professor Knowby explaining his discovery of the Book of the Dead from the original film is played. There is also a short scene after the credits.

Yes, but not within the film's story. He appears after the end credits, in a dark, nondescript location, turns to the camera and says "Groovy."

Essentially yes. However there are some close up shots of people on fire or with limbs missing which were aided with CGI enhancement. In this way the filmmakers were very careful to only use computer effects when absolutely necessary.

No, it does not mean that. The idea that, when a remake or reboot is made, it prevents the original series from continuing is understandable because that is how it normally happens. However, Sam Raimi has said that he is still proceeding with Army of Darkness 2 as his next movie after Oz the Great and Powerful.