Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda take a romantic vacation in an abandoned cabin in the woods. In the cabin, Ash plays a tape of an archeology professor (the cabin’s previous owner), reciting passages from the Book of the Dead. The recorded incantation unleashes an evil force which kills and later possesses the body of Linda. Ash is then forced to decapitate his girlfriend for his own safety.

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