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occult
1987 · R · 1h 24m
Kiss your nerves goodbye!
He played the tape. He shouldn't have played the tape.
Evil Dead II hurls Ash Williams back into the deadite-infested cabin with relentless, inventive brutality. More horror-comedy than straight sequel, Sam Raimi amplifies everything — the gore, the slapstick, the demonic possession, the chainsaw — into something deliriously unhinged. Bruce Campbell's committed physical performance anchors a film that treats the human body as both weapon and punchline.
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Ash Williams returns to a remote cabin in the woods with his girlfriend Linda, where he discovers a tape recording of a professor reciting passages from the Necronomicon — the Book of the Dead. The incantation summons a demonic force from the surrounding woods, which possesses Linda and forces Ash to kill her. The force then briefly possesses Ash himself before he fights it off, leaving him trapped alone in the cabin as the night descends.
The professor's daughter Annie arrives with her colleague Ed and two local guides, bringing additional Necronomicon pages. The gathering quickly deteriorates: Ed is possessed and killed, and the locals meet gruesome ends. In the film's most iconic sequence, Ash's own hand turns against him — a possessed appendage that attacks him with manic glee — and he severs it with a chainsaw before strapping the saw itself to the stump.
Annie uses the recovered pages to perform a ritual that opens a vortex in time, intended to banish the Evil Dead. The vortex takes Ash with it, pulling him — his car, his chainsaw, a knight's medallion — backward through time to medieval England circa 1300 AD. He arrives in a field to bewildered soldiers, the deadites vanquished behind him and a very long way from home.
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