Clarification on the Evil Dead 2 Sequel/Remake issue:
Both are correct........
Evil Dead 2 was produced by a different studio than the first. It had such a low budget that they could not afford to buy the rights to the first movie. Therefore the 5 minute recap at the beginning of the movie (of part 1 ofcourse) had to be completely reshot. As I said, the budget was very low. To save money......they changed it up a bit, they shot it as only Ash and his girlfriend coming up to the cabin because those are the only two characters who have any impact on the Evil Dead 2 story.............
As I said.......this is only the first 5 minutes of the movie. At the end of Evil Dead, Ash is being chased by the "Evil Dead"............5 minutes into Evil Dead 2 Ash is hit by the unseen force and slung into the air landing into a mud puddle. This is where the sequel picks up..........Ash arises from the puddle and has been overcome by the "Evil Dead".......
They simply reshot 5 minutes of footage and showed it as the overview of Evil Dead 1 to bring the audience up to speed...........then proceeded to expand the story as a sequel.
The exact same circumstances surround Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3).
Made by a different company...........didn't use the last scene from Evil Dead 2 where Ash shoots the flying deadite with his boom stick and all the primitives start bowing to him. Instead........they reshot him landing in the past and told the story differently (just like they did at the beginning of Evil Dead 2).........Ash now lands and is captured right away. He shoots no flying deadite, no primitives bow to him........