As Cheryl raises a fireplace poker to impale him, Ash snatches the book and throws it into the fire. During their fight, Ash sees that the Book of the Dead has fallen near the fireplace and is starting to burn, as are Cheryl and Scotty. While there, he hears voices and sees blood seeping from numerous crevices and openings in the walls.Ī demoniacally possessed Scotty tries to kill Ash as Cheryl breaks through the door. He then descends into the cellar to search for more shotgun shells after barricading the doors. Arming himself with a shotgun, he finds her hiding outside and shoots her in the shoulder. Returning to the cabin, Ash finds that Cheryl has escaped from the cellar. She rises from the grave and attacks him, forcing him to decapitate her with a shovel. Taking her body to the woodshed, Ash tries to force himself to dismember her with a chainsaw, but finds himself unable to do it and buries her instead. He locks Linda outside the cabin and tends to Scotty's injuries, but she sneaks in through the back-door and attacks Ash with a ceremonial dagger, which he uses to impale her. Linda and Cheryl unsuccessfully attempt to deceive Ash into believing they are no longer possessed, only to attack him again.
Before losing consciousness, he tells Ash that an alternate trail does exist. Scotty returns, suffering from grave injuries caused by the possessed trees. They bury her, and Scotty, emotionally shaken by her death, leaves to find an alternate trail through the woods.Ĭhecking on Linda, Ash discovers that she, too, has become possessed, although she makes no attempt to attack him. Shelly is the next to become possessed she attacks Scotty, who eventually dismembers her with an axe. She then stabs Linda in the ankle with a pencil, and Scotty locks her into the cellar. However, they find that the only bridge connecting the cabin to the rest of the world has been destroyed.īack at the cabin, while the girls play cards, Cheryl becomes demonically possessed, telling them that the demons will kill them. The others do not believe her story, but Ash agrees to drive her to town where she can find a place to stay for the night. Alone and far from the safety of the cabin, she is attacked and raped by demonically possessed trees, but manages to escape. Later, hearing voices, she goes outside to investigate. The group is unaware of this, but Cheryl becomes hysterical when a tree crashes through the window, and retires to her room. When the trapdoor to the cellar mysteriously flies open during dinner, Ash and Scotty go down to investigate and find the Naturon Demonto, a Sumerian version of the Book of the Dead, along with a tape recording of incantations, which, when played, unleashes evil demons and spirits. She fails to mention the incident to the others, dismissing it as her imagination. That night, while Cheryl is making a drawing of a clock, her hand becomes violently possessed by a mysterious entity, causing her to draw a picture that looks like a deformed, evil face.
They soon run into trouble, first narrowly avoiding another motorist, then having a sudden scare as the bridge near the cabin begins to collapse as they cross. The Evil Dead focuses on five Michigan State University students: Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda, accompanied by Ash's sister Cheryl, their friend Scotty and his girlfriend Shelly, who venture into the Tennessee hills to vacation in an isolated cabin for their spring break. The film currently holds a 98% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is considered to be one of the largest cult films. Despite the hardships, the film was released to positive reviews, including a rave review from Stephen King, calling it "the most ferociously original horror film of the year", allowing it to secure an international distributor, the then-unknown New Line Cinema. The film was a hardship for the cast and crew, being filmed at an actual cabin in Morristown, Tennessee, secluded from the nearby town. It is based on the short film Within The Woods, which served as a 'prototype' that allowed Raimi to secure $90,000 to produce the film. This launched the careers of Raimi, Campbell and Tapert, who collaborated on films for years afterwards. Despite its low budget and the melodramatic bad acting due to the actors inexperience, the film was a commercial success, grossing more than $2.4 million in the United States and $27 million internationally, for a worldwide gross of $29.4 million. $29.4 million The Evil Dead (Evil Dead) is a 1981 supernatural horror film, written and directed by Sam Raimi, starring the then-unknown Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss and Betsy Baker.
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