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Evil Dead II (1987) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Ash chops his hand off at the wrist, yet later it is seen to have a fair amount of forearm attached to it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Various of the weapons used, including the chainsaw, the poker and a knife bend and wobble as though made of rubber or plastic.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ash crashes through the front windshield of his Olds, a wire can be seen attached to his body.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When the "spirit" chases Ash through the house, you can see the rigging of the set where the roof should be.
  
  
• Continuity: Although it is Ash's right hand that is cut off, afterward when he goes down to the cellar to retrieve the pages of the Necronomicon, there is a scene where he picks up a page with his right hand (this may have been a flipped negative).
  
  
• Continuity: When Annie is trying to pull Jake out of the cellar door, she is sprayed with blood and her shirt and shorts soaked in the front. When she turns around, she's almost completely clean.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The harness, rope and pulley that drag the character into the vortex at the end are all clearly visible.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When someone's head rolls toward the camera after it has been chopped off, you can see the crew member who threw the head toward the camera in the background as he tries to hide from the camera behind a log
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The wires holding the flying eyeball and the wires that move the roots of the tree are visible.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Set lighting can be seen on top of the corners of the porch awning in several exterior shots of the cabin.
  
  
• Continuity: Annie's clothes change in the middle of the film for no apparent reason.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The lighting rig is often clearly visible above the cottage interior set.
  
  
• Continuity: The green slime on the wall and on the others disappears.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the possessed Henrietta is spinning over Annie, there is a large tear in the crotch of the "Henrietta" suit.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: A white liquid dribbles out Henrietta's ear. This is Ted Raimi's sweat mixed with the white powder in the costume.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: You can, in several outdoor nighttime scenes, clearly see the lighting equipment (used to create the eerie glows in the woods) hanging from trees.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After Ash comes out of the water, you can see a person behind him dressed in black running in the woods.
  
  
• Continuity: While Ash is fighting with his hand in the kitchen, you can see daylight through the windows above the sink. However, this scene supposedly takes place at night.
  
  
• Continuity: The demon version of Ash has a hand while he is fighting the woman.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Ash and Annie are hugging just before the kitchen shelves fall, a crew member can clearly be seen in the background to the left of Annie. He moves a couple of times, trying to stay out of shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The rig that suspends Evil Ed in midair can be seen from the side; the overhead track that Henrietta swings from can be seen from the bottom view; when the severed hand is choking Ash, its foam thumb bends backwards.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Annie shakes and slams an unconscious Ash against the floor, the unconscious Ash grabs her arms and tries to protect himself.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Henrietta is attacking Ash as he is dragged out of the cellar by Jake, her right 'arm' only covers Ted Raimi's arm up to the elbow, where his rolled up sleeve is visible below the very tattered end of the fake arm. The left arm is full of tears, and neither is fitted well to the hands.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ash finds pages of the Necronomicon in the basement, he picks the pages out from a puddle of water. When he looks at the pages, the paper is dry.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ash chops off his hand, blood sprays all over his face. In the very next shot, the blood is gone.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The wire connected to Henrietta's eye after it has popped out is visible while it flies through the air.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ash is reloading his shotgun during the battle scene with his severed hand, the hand gets its thumb caught in a mousetrap. In the next shot, the mousetrap is on the index finger.
  
  
• Continuity: After Ash finds that the bridge has fallen and tries to speed off in reverse, away from the spirits, the spirit point of view moves over a fully intact bridge.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ash goes back in time you can clearly see padding when he falls from the sky.
  
  
• Continuity: 7:13 into the film. Dark when Ash buries Linda, however the skies are blue when the entity picks him up and he flies through the woods.
  
  
• Continuity: 31:30 into the film. Ash's face is covered in blood from severing his own hand. Suddenly it is relatively clean.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: 31:49 into the film: While Ash is wrapping his "Stump" in the white cloth and duct taping it, his fingers are clearly visible underneath the cloth.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the evil force is chasing Ash in the beginning of the movie, after Ash flies through his windshield, before you see the evil force go through the rear window of his vehicle, the evil force advances towards the car and part of the equipment used to shatter the window can be seen near the right side of the screen as the evil force advances.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ash is about to be sucked into the vortex and is hanging from the board, there's no shotgun in his holster, but after the board breaks and he is tumbling into the vortex the shotgun is back.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the start of the film, while Ash and his girlfriend are driving across the bridge to the cabin, there is visible a man, far right to the screen, standing at the entrance to the bride. He is staring directly at the camera. It is unknown if either this is an confused extra or someone who just stumbled into the set.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie Ash's shirt is un-tucked when he walks over to the table with the tape recorder, then after listening to it when he walks into the room to find Linda his shirt is tucked into his pants.
  
  
• Continuity: When dead Linda comes back to life, her severed head has straight blonde hair between shots, even though she has wavy brown hair.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Obvious doll's head used for the stop-motion animation when Linda comes back to life and dances outside the cabin.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Ash kills Linda in the workshed blood splatters the light bulb but when he returns to make the chainsaw hand the light bulb is clean.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Ash returns with the axe to kill Evil Ed, we see he chops off part of his head (via shadow). The next time we see Evil Ed, his head is intact.
  
  

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