


Panicking, the terrified Ash gets lucky and manages to decapitate the love of his life with a handy shovel. Discovering Linda's disappearance, our Hero ventures outside and is attacked by the now-demonfied Linda. The tape says that "it is through the recitation of the book's passages that this dark spirit is given license to possess the living", then precedes to recite one of the passages, which awakens an evil force that possesses Linda. Raymond Knowby ( John Peakes) who was busy translating passages from "Necronomicon Ex Mortis" (called "Morturom Demonto" in the recording), the "Book of the Dead", which they found in the Castle of Candar, beside a ceremonial knife with a skull on its handle. The recording explains that the cabin belongs to a Prof. When Ash goes into another room to get a bottle of champagne, and Linda changes out of the rest of her clothes, he finds a reel-to-reel tape player and switches it on. He has recently given her a silver chain with a little magnifying glass on it. Within the cabin plays a piano while Linda dances in underwear. Williams ( Bruce Campbell), and girlfriend Linda ( Denise Bixler), driving to an abandoned cabin high in the mountains. This alternate version starts with protagonist Ashley 'Ash' J. The first 15 minutes of the film acts as an edited account of The Evil Dead (1981).The synopsis below may give away important plot points. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash.

Ash and her end up having to survive this swarm of evil until morning comes.Ī young man, named Ash, takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin in the woods where he plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. Meanwhile a journalist comes to the area to study the book of evil.

This unleashes a bunch of evil spirits that constantly terrorize Ash. The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.Īshley Williams travels to a secluded cabin in the woods with his girlfriend Linda where they find a tape recording of a professor and a book of evil.
