Evil Dead

Mia is a recovering heroin addict who has just relapsed. Her brother David, his girlfriend Natalie, their friend Eric, and their nurse friend Olivia bring her to the family's remote cabin to detox cold-turkey. They believe forcing her through withdrawal in isolation is her last real chance.

The cabin reeks. They find the cellar: dozens of dead cats strung from the rafters, a ritual circle, and a book wrapped in barbed wire and black plastic. It is bound in human skin and full of grotesque illustrations and runic warnings — DO NOT READ — etched and scratched on every page. Eric, intellectually arrogant, opens it and reads the incantation aloud.

Mia, deep in withdrawal, flees into the woods. She is assaulted by an unseen demonic force in a brutal sequence echoing the original film's most notorious scene. She returns to the cabin altered. The others assume it's withdrawal and lock her in her room.

Mia is now host to an Abomination, a demonic entity that begins to surface and recede. She vomits black bile into Olivia's mouth.

Olivia is possessed next. She mutilates her own face with a shard of mirror and attacks Eric, who kills her with a heavy ceramic toilet lid. Natalie tries to help and is bitten by Mia. Her arm becomes possessed, moving on its own. She severs it with an electric knife — but the corruption spreads through the rest of her body and she turns Deadite. Eric kills her, but takes mortal wounds in the process.

The book reveals the rules. To defeat an Abomination, the host must be burned, beheaded, dismembered, or buried alive. There are no other paths.

David makes the hardest choice. He suffocates Mia, buries her in the pouring rain, then digs her up and revives her with a jury-rigged defibrillator. She comes back human, the demon driven out of her body.

But David is dying. The Abomination, denied its host, rises from the earth in its true form as blood begins to rain from the sky. David stays behind and burns the cabin around himself to seal what he can. He dies in the fire.

Mia faces the creature alone in the bloodied front yard. Her hand is crushed under the Jeep during the fight; she cuts it off to free herself. She finds a chainsaw, attaches it to the stump, and meets the Abomination head-on. She splits its skull with the saw. The blood rain stops.