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Updated: February 26, 2025

The Evil Dead Plot Synopsis:

Five college students take time off to spend a peaceful vacation in a remote cabin. A book and audio tape is discovered, and its evil is found to be powerful once the incantations are read out loud. The friends find themselves helpless to stop the evil as it takes them one by one, with only one survivor left with the evil dead and desperately tries to fight to live until morning.

Synopsis / Plot Summary: Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

Tagline: They got up on the wrong side of the grave.

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