Trick Or Treat Studios Evil Dead 2 Necronomicon The Book Of The Dead Prop Replica

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00:00 I know now that my wife has become a host to a Kandarian demon. I fear that

00:04 the only way to stop these possessed by the spirits of the book is through the

00:07 act of bodily dismemberment. Here's a look at the Trick-or-Treat Studios

00:11 Evil Dead 2 Dead by Dawn the Necronomicon Ex Mortis replica prop.

00:28 Legend has it it was written by the Dark Ones. Necronomicon Ex Mortis roughly

00:34 translated to the Book of the Dead. The book served as a passageway into the

00:37 evil world beyond. It was written long ago when seas ran red with blood. It was

00:42 this blood that was used to ink the book. In the year 1300 AD the book disappeared

00:47 until it was later discovered by Professor Raymond Nobby in the ruins of

00:51 Castle Kandor. These artifacts are only an insight as to what evil could be

00:56 lurking just outside of our world. Though I'm sure very ill-advised before we start

01:01 flipping through the pages of this possessed book I'd like to first thank

01:04 the folks over at Trick-or-Treat Studios that did kindly provide the sample of

01:08 the Evil Dead 2 Book of the Dead Necronomicon prop that we could have a

01:11 look at. It is as of right now still available over on their site for $119.99

01:16 or you can also go the route of four interest-free installments of $29.99.

01:21 That being said let's go ahead and grab the tape measure just in case again you

01:24 guys want to see how big the book is. From the bottom to the top you're

01:27 looking at the Necronomicon at being exactly 10 inches in height or

01:32 that's gonna work out to be about 26 centimeters in length. As for its width

01:37 though from the end of its spine to the front of its opening just flip it around

01:40 first two inches you're looking at it being about eight and a half inches in

01:44 width or it's gonna be about 21 and a half centimeters wide. While maybe not

01:50 being bound in flesh the book though is bound in natural latex so if you have a

01:54 natural allergy to latex this may not be a prop collectible you may want to have

01:58 to your collection but it is though based on the design of the Necronomicon

02:02 from Evil Dead 2 Dead by Dawn. A somewhat rebooted sequel to the original

02:07 Evil Dead film in which obviously the Book of the Dead does make some

02:11 drastic changes to the way it's sculpted. The book obviously in this case is

02:15 actually based on the face that it has in the in the second follow-up film.

02:19 Although the coloring I would say though going back and looking at the source

02:23 material I think the Necronomicon in Evil Dead 2 is kind of more of a darker

02:27 chestnut brown than maybe the lighter brown that we get here. An opportunity

02:31 though I will say from Trick-or-Treat's part by making the book bound in a

02:34 lighter brown is it also gives in way a chance for some of the features like the

02:38 face for example to stand a little bit more simply just because again they're

02:42 using a darker coloring. You can see like for the face for example and where I

02:45 guess a serviceable nasal cavity as well as a mouth would be that these are all

02:49 been well handled in a darker coloring of paint. Again if they had gone say the

02:54 road of a darker chestnut brown like it would be in the movie and I think also

02:57 in the movie it's a little bit more of a duller finish than the more shinier. This

03:02 actually comes across more like it actually has been wrapped in flesh. As

03:05 interesting as that is. It's certainly a little more shinier here maybe not as

03:10 shiny as it is on the spine and then of course on the back it doesn't have maybe

03:15 some of the pizzazz that the front of the face of the book would have but it

03:18 does still have some really cool texturing all that they've added into

03:22 the book itself. Now the book is actually quite well bound. It does have if you

03:26 open up the book for example want to make sure we've got it flipped around

03:28 the right way here. We open up the book again I think it's okay because I don't

03:33 I don't speak Kandarian so I think we might be okay but inside the book as you

03:37 can see what they've done is they've attached sort of a a craft like a

03:41 parchment paper on the inside book and it's also on the other side there also

03:44 as well and then flip flipping through the pages all written in blood you can

03:50 see like each of the individual pages do actually have detailing like just

03:53 exactly like it would be from the movie. Flipping through the pages, actually the

03:57 pages are a little harder to flip through just because again the way they've

04:00 frayed them it's not a completely flat page for example nor really should it be.

04:05 The way it obviously is depicted in the movie is that all the pages are sort of

04:08 kind of really mangled looking as they are flipping through it but if we were

04:13 to say flip through the pages I just want to show you some of the work that

04:15 they put into these fairly accurate from what at least we see of the book being

04:19 flipped through in Evil Dead 2. Just again you can see it there on the one

04:23 side there and then flip it around to the other side that's that's a page we

04:26 might want to just quickly flip through. The paper quality I will say is quite

04:31 good it's sort of more like a thicker cardboard but it still has a little bit

04:35 give it's like a cardstock paper I would say and sort of the coloring that they

04:39 went with is more like that craft color like it would be in the movie. Again on

04:42 the other side again we're kind of delving now into the deeper ends of

04:46 possession here there's an eyeball and a severed head. The book itself I feel is

04:51 quite well made. The only thing I will say though about the book is we just

04:55 kind of flip through the remaining pages of it this is kind of where we get to

04:58 more the end of the world sort of circumstances but like each of the pages

05:02 as you can see has just as much detail as the page before it. Again there's a

05:06 series of stacked skulls and there on the back there the Necronomicon. The

05:12 one of three Necronomicon as established a little bit later in the

05:16 lore but again like the book is well made the only thing I will say though is

05:20 like the book is in some pretty pristine quality which is actually a good thing

05:24 too because obviously if you're getting this book you'd hate to think it'd be

05:26 frayed or anything along those lines but now I have seen some individuals who have

05:31 picked the book up for themselves that have sort of bent the book or sort of

05:35 warped the book a little bit so it wasn't it because as it is right now

05:39 simply just because again it's brand new has been taken just out of the

05:42 packaging about half an hour to an hour ago the book is sort of more in a

05:45 pristine nature kind of like what you would expect with a leather bound binder

05:49 it you know again like everything is sort of well put together very flat on

05:53 the sides or a little bit slightly rounded on the sides but it doesn't have

05:56 sort of more the warped kind of disheveled look that the book would have

05:59 in the movie and I have seen some people actually sort of warp the pages warp the

06:03 actual spine of the book so it has a little more of a roughness to it I don't

06:06 know if necessarily I would maybe go that route because I think the book

06:09 looks fine as it is the one thing also that does concern me although the

06:14 weather conditions will of course permit how much humidity for example you have

06:18 in your collection room will always be the thing that sways the direction of

06:21 like leather or faux leather material bound things like costumes if you have

06:25 like six scale figures or even for the fact that this is also latex latex will

06:30 break down so of course the longer that you have like a book like this in your

06:33 collection there may be a little bit of like flaking or chipping I would imagine

06:37 that would happen down the road but a lot of that really honestly has to do as

06:40 well with the conditions of where you keep your collectibles if you have a

06:44 generally dry room you don't have like a lot of humidity where like like latex

06:48 can naturally start to break down like with masks and stuff that's one thing

06:51 that mask collectors are always really worried about is like the longevity of

06:55 their masks they want to make sure that that latex doesn't doesn't break down I

06:58 think like quality wise the book does look good I mean short of maybe again

07:02 just kind of warping the pages or maybe just sort of buckling a bit of the spine

07:06 in the front and the back of the cover so it looks a little bit more the way it

07:08 was in the movie like it's a really neat looking book and I think it's well for

07:13 the price trick-or-treats do is they've done a really great job of recreating

07:17 then the book of the dead the Necronomicon prop from of course Evil

07:21 Dead 2 - Dead by Dawn as I was saying earlier though the Necronomicon

07:25 Ex Mortis or loosely translated of course to the book of the dead is

07:29 currently available over on trick-or-treat studios website as of

07:32 right now it's a hundred and nineteen ninety nine for again a pretty well

07:35 bound book that looks like it did in the Evil Dead 2 film they have also not only

07:40 stocked over there the Necronomicon Ex Mortis but they also have the

07:44 Candarian dagger so if that would be a prop you'd like to get an ad to your

07:47 collection as well they are both available as of right now over on

07:51 trick-or-treat studios website if you have had the chance to pick up the

07:54 Necronomicon let me know down below in the comment section what you guys think

07:57 of it and once again a big thank you to the folks over at trick-or-treat studios

08:01 that were kind enough to provide the sample of the Evil Dead 2 - Book of the

08:04 Dead Necronomicon prop that we had the chance to have a look at this review if

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