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(Plot summary improvements for The Evil Dead for editing and consolidation to meet WP:FILMPLOT)

Plot
Five Michigan State University students – Ash Williams, his girlfriend Linda, his sister Cheryl, their friend Scott and Scott's girlfriend Shelly – vacation at an isolated cabin in rural Tennessee. Approaching the cabin, the group notices the porch swing move on its own but suddenly stop as Scott grabs the doorknob. As Cheryl sketches a picture of a clock, the clock suddenly stops.

Cheryl hears a faint, demonic voice speak two words to her: "Join us." Her hand exhibits a sudden and temporary pallor mortis and begins to move of its own accord, drawing a picture of a book with a demonic face on its cover as Cheryl watches in fright. Although shaken, Cheryl does not mention the incident to the others.

During the group's dinner that night, the door to the cabin's cellar opens suddenly and violently, seemingly by itself. Shelly, Linda, and Cheryl remain upstairs as Ash and Scott investigate the cellar. They find the Naturom Demonto, a Sumerian version of the Egyptian Book of the Dead bound in human skin and bearing a face resembling Cheryl's drawing, as well as a morbidly decorated dagger and an archaeologist's tape recorder. They take the items upstairs, and Scott plays the tape.

The archaeologist's recorded voice describes incantations from the book that were believed by its author to be capable of resurrecting a demonic entity from the dead, then begins to recite the incantations themselves. A malevolent presence approaches the house from the woods outside. Cheryl yells for Scott to turn off the tape recorder, and a tree branch breaks through one of the cabin's windows to the confusion of the group.

Later that evening, an agitated Cheryl leaves the cabin and enters the woods to investigate strange noises she hears outside. She is attacked and raped by malevolent, demonically possessed trees. Cheryl manages to escape and returns to the cabin, bruised and anguished.

Ash agrees to take Cheryl back into town, only to discover that the bridge to the cabin has been destroyed. Cheryl panics, telling Ash that they are now trapped and the demonic entity will not let them leave. Back at the cabin, Ash listens to more of the tape, learning that the only way to kill the entity is to dismember a possessed host.

As Linda and Shelly play spades, Cheryl exhibits clairvoyance by correctly naming the cards dealt in the game, in order, without seeing them. Linda and Shelly are first amused, then disturbed, as Cheryl's recitation of the cards grows increasingly rapid and aggressive.

Suddenly, Cheryl rises into the air, levitating above the cabin's floor. In a raspy, demonic voice, Cheryl demands to know why the others disturbed her sleep and threatens to kill everyone. She attacks the others with paranormal strength and viciousness, stabbing Linda in the ankle with a pencil and throwing Ash into a shelf. Scott knocks Cheryl into the cellar and locks her inside.

Everyone fights about what to do. Distressed after seeing Cheryl's demonic transformation, Shelly lies down in her room. However, she soon gets up again, apparently compelled by some unseen force to look out of the room's window. Charging the cabin from outside, another entity crashes through the glass and attacks Shelly where she stands.

Now possessed as Cheryl was before, Shelly attacks Scott with the same brutal strength. Fighting back, he manages to throw her into the still-lit fireplace. Scott stabs Shelly in the back with the dagger earlier retrieved from the basement, apparently killing her. However, her severely burned and mortally wounded body rises and attacks again.

Following the recording's instructions, Scott dismembers Shelly with an axe and buries the remains. Shaken by the experience, he leaves to find a way back to town. Scott shortly returns, now himself mortally wounded through impalement by a tree branch. He dies while warning Ash that the trees will not let them escape alive.

When Ash checks on Linda, he is horrified to find that she has been possessed as well. Linda attacks Ash, but he stabs her with the dagger, apparently killing her. Unwilling to dismember Linda as Scott did Shelly, Ash attempts to bury her instead. Linda's corpse reanimates and attacks him again, forcing Ash to decapitate her with a shovel. Ash retreats to the cabin.

Back inside, Ash discovers that Cheryl has escaped the cellar. Cheryl manages to elude Ash as he stalks her with a shotgun he has found in the cabin, then attacks him, attempting to choke him. After a struggle, Ash escapes her grasp and shoots Cheryl in the jaw. As Ash is barricading the door, Scott's body rises from the floor.

Scott attacks Ash and inadvertently knocks the Naturom Demonto close to the fireplace. Ash gouges Scott's eyes out and pulls the tree branch from Scott's stomach, causing him to bleed profusely and fall to the floor again. Cheryl breaks through the barricade and knocks Ash to the floor as well. As Scott and Cheryl continue to attack him, Ash grabs the Naturom Demonto and throws it into the fireplace.

As the book burns, the face on its human-skin-bound cover grotesquely animates, tongue flicking, as though it were alive. At the same time, the possessed bodies of Ash's friends suddenly cease their attack, freezing in place. Scott and Cheryl begin to rapidly and violently decompose. Large appendages burst from both corpses, covering Ash in blood, and what remains of the two bodies falls still. Dawn breaks, and Ash stumbles outside.

As Ash walks away from the cabin, an unseen entity moves rapidly through the forest, rushes through the cabin's interior and attacks him from behind.