Only Ash and Annie remain, and after she has helped him attach the chainsaw to the stump of his arm, Annie reads the last part of the incantation to supposedly rid them of the demons before she dies of her injuries. He discovers a chainsaw and uses it to cut off his own demonic hand.įour more people turn up at the cabin – including Knowby's daughter Annie –and over the course of the night they either turn into Deadites (the possessed) or meet gruesome ends. Trapped at the cabin, Ash is attacked by her headless corpse while her decapitated head bites his hand, and it becomes possessed. Watch now: Prime Video | iTunes | Microsoft StoreĪlso known as Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn, this 1987 sequel is also a remake of the 1981 original – but with a bigger budget and more emphasis on comedy.Īsh takes his girlfriend Linda to a cabin in the woods, and while there – you guessed it – he plays a tape they find of Raymond Knowby reading from The Book of the Dead (now called The Necronomicon).Ī demon – the Kandarian – is unleashed and possesses poor Linda, leaving Ash no choice but to decapitate his girlfriend and bury her in the woods. Raimi and Campbell teamed up once more to make a feature-length version of the story – 1981’s The Evil Dead – and Campbell took on the now iconic role of Ash Williams, who attempts to fight the demons that can possess the living, and probably wishes he hadn't picked a remote, spooky cabin as a romantic getaway. The 30-minute short starred Raimi’s school friend Bruce Campbell as Bruce, who goes on a murderous rampage in the woods after he is possessed by evil forces. That's pretty impressive when you realise the Evil Dead story began with a short film Raimi made in 1978 called Within The Woods, on a budget of just $1,600. Since the release of the first movie in 1981, Evil Dead has grown to become a successful horror franchise made up of director Sam Raimi's original three cult classics, a TV series, a reboot and now a new cinema release, Evil Dead Rise, in which the grisly supernatural action relocates to a Los Angeles apartment building.

It all started with a man, a demon and a cabin in the woods.

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