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We Totally Missed This ‘Evil Dead’ Necronomicon Easter Egg in Rick’s Final Episode of “The Walking Dead”
Whenever Greg Nicotero directs an episode of “The Walking Dead” you can expect him to pay tribute to a favorite horror film, which usually comes in the form of a zombie made to look like an iconic horror movie zombie from the past. But last Sunday night’s ‘What Comes After,’ aka Rick’s final episode, featured a cameo from a familiar location and prop.
As pointed out by Halloween Love, Rick makes a pit stop at a dilapidated cabin while he’s bleeding out and barely clinging on to life, where he has a delusion of a reunion with fallen friend Shane Walsh. The cabin, as you probably noticed, looked a whole lot like the iconic cabin from The Evil Dead, but you maybe didn’t notice the Necronomicon inside!
(Honestly, we missed it entirely. And we thank HL for the heads up.)
Not only is there a deer head on the wall of the cabin, but at one point, Nicotero makes sure to show that the Book of the Dead is lying on the floor, right next to a handgun.
It’s interesting to note that Greg Nicotero actually worked on Evil Dead 2 early in his career, on the makeup effects crew. A fun little nod to his own past, via “The Walking Dead”!
To rebuild this city, it needs people willing to fight for it. That’s what Maggie and Negan intend to do in the new trailer for the third season of spinoff series “The Walking Dead: Dead City”.
The third season will premiere on July 26, 2026.
In “The Walking Dead: Dead City” Season 3, “Maggie and Negan finally put aside their differences to build the first thriving community in Manhattan since the apocalypse, but when chaos in the city begins to arise, they are forced to question: have they learned from their old wounds or will their dark past spell doom for the entire city?”
There’s a lot of humor in the new trailer below, which introduces a few new faces among the New York City community.
Fan favorites Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan star alongside Gaius Charles, Lisa Emery, Logan Kim, Keir Gilchrist, Aimee Garcia, Jimmi Simpson, and Michael Emery.
Raúl Castillo (Army of the Dead, Smile 2) has also joined “Dead City” Season 3.
Seth Hoffman (“The Walking Dead”, “Prison Break”) is the showrunner for Season 3.
The series is executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead Universe, Showrunner Seth Hoffman, Cohan, Morgan, Brian Bockrath, and Colin Walsh.
Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan – The Walking Dead: Dead City _ Season 3, Episode X – Photo Credit: Robert Clark/AMC
Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan – The Walking Dead: Dead City _ Season 3, Episode X – Photo Credit: Robert Clark/AMC
Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan – The Walking Dead: Dead City _ Season 3, Episode X – Photo Credit: Robert Clark/AMC
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