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Police officers Amanda (Jill Marie Jones) and Carson (Mike Edward) are
called to an abandoned building for some supposed noise disturbances, and
run into a possessed woman, which they seem themselves forced to kill, but
not before she can bite Carson, who soon enough turns possessed as well,
so Amanda has to kill him. This occurence hasn't gone unnoticed by
mysterious Ruby Knowby (Lucy Lawless), who later meets with Amanda - and
proves to be suspiciously sympathetic ... 30
years ago, Ash (Bruce Campbell) had his own run-in with the forces
of evil and has lost many a friend including his girlfriend to demons -
but this has all been in the past, as since that time he has been
safekeeping the book that started it all, the Necronomicon, and hasn't
read from it once ... until very recently when he tried to impress a girl
(Marissa Stott) with a poetry read while high on weed. And since then he
has had visions of demonic possessions, which make him decide to quit his
minimum wage job at the local department store and quit town. However,
when he relates his story to his co-worker Pablo (Ray Santiago), Pablo
thinks he's the chosen one - El Jefe - and decides to stick with him, and
so does Pablo's cousin Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo), who for some reason thinks
he's the only one who can save her father (Phil Peleton). But it's only
when Ash is attacked by his possessed neighbour (Sian Davis) in his own
trailer that he realizes it's time to pick up the chainsaw again and fight
the evil dead once more ... After 2013's re-imagining Evil
Dead left fans of the original series rather unimpressed, this direct
sequel to the original
trilogy
got things right again, for one, it brought Ash again in all his
fallibility and often misplaced wise-crackery, but also here the blood
flows freely and gratiutously, but things do have their ironic edge which
shines through even in the most violent of scenes. And director Sam Raimi
seems to enjoy going back to his roots, as this first episode has a
suitably grungy B-movie feel to it not prevalent in his bigger budget
pictures. Now sure, this episode (or the whole series) doesn't live up to
the sheer devil-may-care inventiveness of the original
trilogy, but it sure delivers in pure entertainment value.
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