TAGLINE: The ultimate extended experience in gruelling horror…kiss your nerves good-bye!

INTENTION:
to seamlessly combine the original ‘Evil Dead’ with the best of the first sequel (‘Evil Dead 2′) into one long film

EDITING DETAILS & CUTLIST:

carefully watched originals to see what could be accomplished, mapped out desired edits, made edits according to map with occasional spontaneous new edits made on the fly

CUTLIST: view:

SYNOPSIS:

Five vacationing college kids — Ash (Bruce Campbell), his girlfriend Linda (Betsy Baker), and their classmates Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss), Scott (Hal Delrich) and Shelly (Sarah York) — make an unplanned stopover in an abandoned mountain cabin surrounded by impenetrable woods. Before settling in for the night, they come across an ancient-looking occult tome filled with dense hieroglyphics and macabre illustrations, a dagger fashioned from human bones, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder. The taped message, dictated by a professor of archaeology, describes the contents of the Sumerian “Book of the Dead,” filled with incantations used to bring otherworldly demons to life, giving them license to possess the living. The message goes on to explain that those possessed by these demons can only be stopped by total bodily dismemberment. When played among the group later that evening, the professor’s recorded translations of the ritual chants traumatize the strangely prescient Shelly … and simultaneously release an ominous presence from the depths of the forest. The evil spirits take to their dirty work with gusto, first assuming control of Shelly and transforming her into a cackling, murderous hag with superhuman strength; the others imprison her in the fruit cellar and chain the trapdoor shut. The spirits then begin to possess the other women, including Linda — who immediately turns on Ash with a barrage of punches and sadistic taunts. Unable to bring himself to chop up his lover’s corpse, Ash gives her a more customary burial in the woods — which proves to be a big mistake. As the others succumb to demonic influence, Ash’s horrific predicament becomes increasingly grim until, when all hope seems lost, he stumbles upon a final, desperate solution to the ghoulish onslaught … well, maybe not.

At first dawn, Ash tries to make his escape, but is promptly set upon by the spirits, given a solid thrashing and nearly possessed himself, saved only by the arrival of sunlight. Cut off from the outside world, Ash is forced to hole up in the cabin and wait for the next demonic onslaught — which arrives sooner than expected, led by Linda’s rotting corpse. After being bitten by Linda’s chatty decapitated head, Ash’s hand becomes independent of his body and begins pummeling him repeatedly. Ash then removes his belligerent hand with a chainsaw, creating yet another ambulatory foe. Driven to the brink of insanity, Ash fires blindly at a noise outside, unaware that the new arrivals are the professor’s daughter Annie (Sarah Berry) and her partner Ed Getley (Richard Domeier); accompanied by a cranky pair of local rednecks — Jake (Dan Hicks) and Bobbie Joe (Kassie Wesley). Bobbie Joe is injured by the gunshot, which incurs the wrath of Jake, who knocks Ash senseless and locks him in the fruit cellar. Believing her father was murdered by Ash, Annie plays the rest of the professor’s recording to learn the truth, and discovers her possessed mother was buried in the same cellar — and not exactly resting in peace. This touches off a string of unbelievably gruesome (and hysterically funny) events, including Henrietta’s transformation into a stop-motion creature (reminiscent of a Ray Harryhausen creation), Ed’s sudden metamorphosis into a toothy, levitating ghoul, and Ash’s climactic confrontation with the forest demon itself

Release : NTSC SL DVD

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