The Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987)

The Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987)

Release Date: 13 March 1987 (USA)
Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Runtime: 84 min
Director: Sam Raimi
Company: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG), Renaissance Pictures
Movie Info: IMDb
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Ted Raimi
Genre: Comedy | Horror
Watch: Trailer
Size: 701MB

Plot: The first 15 minutes of the film acts as an edited account of Evil Dead I. This alternate version starts with protagonist Ashley (Ash) J. Williams, and girlfriend Linda, driving to an abandoned cabin high in the mountains. Within the cabin Ash plays a tape which explains that the cabin belongs to a Prof. Raymond Knowby who was busy translating passages from "Necronomicon Ex Mortis", the book of the dead. As the tape translates one of the passages, it awakens an evil force that possesses Linda.

Discovering Linda's disappearance, our Hero ventures outside and is attacked by the now-demonfied Linda. Panicking, the terrified Ash gets lucky and manages to decapitate the love of his life with a handy shovel. Following this murder, Mr Williams decides to do the decent thing and buries his, now headless, girlfriend.

It's at this point the summary of the first film ends as the evil force sweeps in and carries the stressed Ash through the woods, possessing him. Fortunately the sun comes up and drives away the kandarian demon, leaving Ash perfectly healthy, if not a little depressed.

At this point Ash bravely clambers into his Oldsmobile and makes a dash for freedom only to find that the bridge is now destroyed, presumably by evil forces. Yet again the evil pursues him to the cabin and then through it, but Ash, using all his cunning, evades it.

Following a manly nap, our lovable coward wakes in an armchair to piano music. Looking outside he sees Linda's corpse re animate and dance. She then vanishes and her head appears in Ash's lap, biting hard on his right hand. Unable to remove the head he rushes to the workshed and puts it in a vice, causing it to release its grip and, instead starts to mock Mr Williams, who has already had a trying day. To make matters worse the headless torso charges into the shed and attacks Ash with a chainsaw. Yet again blind luck saves Ash and he defeats the body and uses the chainsaw to destroy Linda's head, this time she's obviously got on Ash's bad side as she gets no further burial.

Upon returning to the cabin with a shotgun, Ash is further frightened by an unseen entity moaning on the rocking chair. Dropping the shotgun, he tries to console himself by telling his reflection in the mirror that everything is fine. However, his reflection suddenly comes to life and contradicts him, laughing at Ash's predicament and then throttling Ash before vanishing.