![]() (Japan wins best retitle for that particular film, going with Kyaputen sûpâmâkett, or " Captain Supermarket".) There would be La Casa 3-7 before the next true sequel ( Army of Darkness) was made, and rather than continue their ruse and go with the La Casa name (fitting, if you think about it - we never got " Evil Dead 3", either), they just translated it quite faithfully to L'armata delle tenebre. ![]() But Sam Raimi wasn't in any rush to make a true " La Casa 3" right away, Italian producers seized the opportunity to cash in anyway, keeping the name alive with at least five more installments, none of which were related in any meaningful way. For whatever reason, Evil Dead's Italian title became La Casa (translation: "The House") instead of "Male Morto" (the actual translation), and in turn, 1987's Evil Dead 2 became La Casa 2. And to the best of my limited knowledge, there is no case wackier than the La Casa series, which began with Sam Raimi's 1981 classic, better known as The Evil Dead. Unfortunately, they did the same thing with American productions, using their translated titles as a launching point to tie in whatever vaguely similar (at best) movie they might have had in mind. However, this rule (or just common courtesy) doesn't exist over there, and thus the industry produced several "sequels" of no relation to their "originals", with overlaps like Demons 3 not uncommon.īut at least Demons was an Italian movie to begin with. We don't really do that here Deep Blue Sea may have had some sharks, but they couldn't just call it Jaws 5, because someone would certainly be sued*. It wouldn't be until the advent of online encyclopedias that I learned that Italian producers weren't beholden to America's "rules" about such things, retitling films however they saw fit and raking in extra money from the association with better known films. Without the internet, I might even still be in the dark as to why Troll 2 had no trolls, or why I had seen two movies called Demons 3 that were a) nothing alike and b) Demon free. But for certain Italian producers, the ease of obtaining information so quickly helped put a stop to one of their favorite pastimes: confusing the hell out of audiences by creating franchises out of unrelated movies. The internet has made our lives simpler in many ways, and I honestly don't know how I'd function without it. ![]()
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