Cast and Crew information on the first film in the series. Includes user reviews. If the only person who could truly beat Batman is another Batman, he’s going to have his hands full this summer, when seven– SEVEN evil alternate universe Batmen. The Complete Second Season arrives on August 22nd. Since not everyone gets Starz, many fans have to wait until “Ash vs. Evil Dead” heads to home video to check. Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.

The Evil Dead is a 1981 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi and executive produced by Raimi and Bruce Campbell, who also stars.

Evil Dead II - Wikipedia. Evil Dead II (also known in publicity materials as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn[5]) is a 1. American horror comedy film directed by Sam Raimi and a parody sequel[6][7][8] to the 1.

The Evil Dead. The film was written by Raimi and Scott Spiegel, produced by Robert Tapert, and stars Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams. Filming took place in Michigan and North Carolina in 1.

United States on March 1. It was a minor box office success, achieving just under $6 million. It garnered positive reviews in which critics praised Raimi's direction and Campbell's performance. Like the original, Evil Dead II has accumulated a cult following.

The film was followed by a third installment, Army of Darkness, in 1. Ash vs Evil Dead, in 2. The film begins with a simplified recap of the events of the first film. Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda take a romantic vacation to a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. While in the cabin, Ash plays a tape of archaeologist Raymond Knowby, the cabin's previous inhabitant, reciting passages from the Necronomicon Ex- Mortis (or Book of the Dead), which he has discovered during an archaeological dig. The recorded incantation unleashes an evil force that kills and later possesses Linda, turning her into a "deadite".

Ash is then forced to decapitate his girlfriend with a shovel and bury her near the cabin. Watch The Wizard Of Lies Online. The film then picks up where the first film left off, where a spirit is seen throwing Ash through the woods.

Ash briefly becomes possessed by the demon, but when day breaks the spirit is gone, and Ash returns to normal. Ash finds little chance of safety, however, as the bridge leading to the cabin has been destroyed. The sun sets immediately after, and the evil force returns and chases Ash back to the cabin. He manages to evade the entity, and then barricades the cabin's doors and windows with wooden planks. The evil force once again takes possession of Linda, who briefly attacks Ash before having her disembodied head bite down onto his hand. Ash brings Linda's severed head to the shed, where her headless body attacks him with a chainsaw. Ash gains the upper hand and slashes the relentless deadite Linda to death, killing her a second and final time.

Ash's right hand becomes possessed from the bite and tries to kill him, forcing Ash to sever it with his chainsaw. Ash then attempts to shoot the severed hand hiding in the wall of the cabin. The hand mocks him and ultimately gets away. While Ash deals with this force, Knowby's daughter, Annie, and her research partner, Ed Getley, return from the dig with more pages of the Necronomicon in tow, only to find the destroyed bridge. They enlist the help of locals Jake and Bobby Joe to guide them along an alternate trail to the cabin.

The four of them find an embattled Ash, who is, seemingly, slowly being driven insane by the demon, such as hallucinating that the room comes to life with objects in the room laughing hysterically at him. The four new arrivals meet Ash at the cabin and listen to a recording of Knowby detailing how his wife Henrietta was possessed by the Evil Force, forcing him to kill her. They find Mrs. Knowby, now a deadite, in the cabin's root cellar. The evil force sneaks into the cabin while the group is distracted by Henrietta and possesses Ed; Ash dismembers him with an axe. The spirit of Professor Knowby, trapped in a hellish, limbo- like dimension by the evil force, briefly contacts the group and instructs them to recite the pages that Annie brought, which can dispel the evil force. Growing increasingly hysterical by the supernatural happenings, Bobby Joe panics and tries to escape into, but the evil force takes possession of the trees, which come to life in the form of tentacle- like vines and drag Bobby Joe away. Annie translates two of the pages before Jake turns on them and throws the pages into the cellar, holding them at gunpoint to force them to go look for Bobby Joe.

Ash is possessed once again and turns on his remaining companions, incapacitating Jake. Annie retreats to the cabin and accidentally stabs Jake (mistaking him for the demon) and drags him to the cellar door, where he is killed by Henrietta in a gory bloodbath.

Deadite Ash tries to kill Annie, but returns to his normal self when he sees Linda's necklace. Ash, with Annie's help, modifies the chainsaw and attaches it to his stump, where his right hand had been. Ash eventually finds the missing pages of the Necronomicon but is attacked by Henrietta, whom he engages in a brutal fistfight. During the battle, Henrietta transforms into a shrieking long- necked monster and nearly overpowers Ash, but Annie distracts the deadite long enough for Ash to kill and dismember her. With Henrietta dealt with, Annie begins chanting an incantation to send the Evil Force back to its origin. The incantation opens up a whirling temporal vortex/portal which not only draws in the evil force, but nearby trees, Ash's Oldsmobile Delta 8.

Ash himself. Meanwhile, Ash's severed possessed hand stabs and kills Annie. Ash and his Oldsmobile land in the year 1. AD. He is then confronted by a group of knights who initially mistake him for a deadite, but they are quickly distracted when a real one shows up. Ash blasts the harpy- like deadite with his shotgun and is hailed as a hero who has come to save the realm, at which point he breaks down and screams in anguish. Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, a man who travels to the cabin in the woods to spend the weekend with his girlfriend Linda. As the story follows, he must defeat the evil powers around him that keep growing. After enough attacks, he decides to take the evil head- on equipped with a shotgun and a chainsaw and sets out to face the enemy.

Sarah Berry as Annie Knowby, Professor Knowby's daughter who travels to the cabin looking forward to share her discoveries of the Book of the Dead with her father. She thinks Ash murdered her parents at first, but when the evil spirits unleash against them, she realizes the truth and finds out her only way to survive is to help Ash defeat the spirits. Dan Hicks as Jake, a white- trash guy who freaks out before the evil spirits. When things turn bad, he thinks they have to escape before they all get killed.

He is accidentally stabbed in the chest by Annie when trying to escape a possessed Ash. Badly wounded but still alive, Annie tries dragging him to safety in the living room near the trapdoor to the fruit cellar, where he is attacked and eaten alive by Henrietta. Kassie Wesley as Bobby Joe, Jake's foul- mouthed, self- centered girlfriend. She tries to escape the cabin, only to be killed by the woods themselves (in a similar fashion to how Cheryl was raped in the first film).

Ted Raimi as Possessed Henrietta, Annie's possessed mother who uses her memories to lure her in order to kill her and everybody else, but is killed when Ash stabs her through the chest with his chainsaw. Denise Bixler as Linda, Ash's girlfriend.

She gets possessed, then tries to kill Ash. In a desperate effort, he beheads her with a shovel before burying her. Later on, her corpse rises from the grave and resumes her intentions to kill Ash with both her severed head and her body acting separately. He finally gets rid of her by chopping her up with a chainsaw. Bixler replaces Betsy Baker, who portrayed Linda in the first film. Richard Domeier as Professor Ed Getley, Professor Knowby's associate and Annie's boyfriend.

After being attacked by the possessed Henrietta, he gets possessed by another spirit. He meets his doom when Ash dismembers him with an ax. John Peaks as Professor Knowby, the archaeologist who found the Book of the Dead.

When he took it to his cabin to translate it, he accidentally unleashed its evil spirits. His fate remains unknown, since he only appears as a floating head from another plane of existence. Lou Hancock as Henrietta Knowby, Professor Knowby's wife. She gets possessed when her husband accidentally unleashes the evil spirits of the Book of the Dead.

An Evil Batman Army is Coming To DCIf the only person who could truly beat Batman is another Batman, he’s going to have his hands full this summer, when seven– SEVEN evil alternate universe Batmen invade Gotham City. They’re the newest threat promised to arrive in DC’s epic Dark Nights: METAL event, with each of the seven Batmen hailing from a different world in the aptly- titled “Dark Multiverse.” And if half a dozen murderous versions of Bruce Wayne weren’t terrifying enough, they’ll each be redesigned with the superpowers of fellow Justice League heroes, villains, and Batman’s greatest nemesis himself…The seven one- shot stories were announced by DC as one more expansion of the massive Dark Nights: METAL event coming in August. The lead- up to Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s “summer blockbuster” has technically begun, with Dark Days: THE FORGE now on store shelves.

The issue is one of two single issue prologues to the mainline METAL event written by Snyder and James Tynion IV, and the first evidence that DC is relying on its very best talent to give fans a summer to remember. The same goes for the seven ‘Dark Multiverse’ comics – not to mention the ‘Gotham Resistance’ that will be formed as a result (Bruce is really going to need all the help he can get). Before we go any further, let’s cover the goods, with a quick rundown (and release dates) of the seven “corrupted” versions of the Dark Knight “spawned from the Dark Multiverse to wreak havoc on Earth”: BATMAN: THE RED DEATH #1 by writer Joshua Williamson and artist Carmine Di Giandomenico (September 2. BATMAN: THE MURDER MACHINE #1 by writer Frank Tieri and artist Ricardo Federici (September 2. BATMAN: THE DAWNBREAKER #1 by writer Sam Humphries and artist Ethan Van Sciver (October 4th)BATMAN: THE DROWNED #1 by writer Dan Abnett and artist Philip Tan (October 1. BATMAN: THE MERCILESS #1 by writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Francis Manapul (October 2.

BATMAN: THE DEVASTATOR #1 (on sale November 1)THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS #1 (on sale November 1. These evil versions of Batman tell you all they need to with their monikers, but the announcement also revealed the logos and silhouettes of the Batmen in question. Take a look: From the names and symbols, fans should be able to decipher the exact superpowered “corruption” leading to the creation of these Dark Multiverse Batmen. Batman: The Red Death features a Bat symbol divided by The Flash’s lightning (and a runner’s pose to match). Batman: The Dawnbreaker gives Batman a coat and, presumably, a Green Lantern ring of his own to not bring about an “Emerald Dawn,” but apparently break it with force. Batman: The Drowned will apparently be infusing Batman with the mythology of Atlantis, and Batman: The Merciless as a twisting of Wonder Woman’s. The logo for Batman: The Devastator may not be as well- known, but the silhouette should be: yes, that’s a Batman/Doomsday hybrid. Hold onto your capes. While Batman: The Murder Machine is a less obvious reinvention, The Batman Who Laughs promises a nightmare creation fusing Bruce Wayne with The Joker himself. Batman facing off against any one of these villains or creative teams would be worth attention, but combining them into one assault – and possibly aside from the core series itself – is what DC Entertainment’s Executive Editor Patrick Mc.

Callum promises fans can expect from METAL: “With names like The Red Death, The Murder Machine, The Dawnbreaker, The Drowned, The Merciless, The Devastator and The Batman Who Laughs, it’s pretty clear that these creatures mean business and prove just how dangerous the Dark Multiverse will be for DC’s heroes.“With the combination of an event comic helmed by two of the most talented creators in comic history a legion of evil Batmen and crossover titles that show just how deeply this event impacts the DCU, fans will know now more than ever that DARK NIGHTS: METAL is something not to be missed.”For those casual DC fans interested in METAL, but not looking to empty their bank accounts on a sprawling event, the core issues aren’t too expansive. The stage will be set by Dark Days: THE FORGE (out now) and Dark Days: THE CASTING (coming July 1. Dark Nights: METAL begins in August. Once the evil Batmen issues start to roll out, the ‘Gotham Resistance’ we mentioned before will spread to Damian Wayne and Dick Grayson’s worlds in their respective Teen Titans and Nightwing series for a single issue, along with Suicide Squad. But just as enticing as these corrupted Batmen is the issues themselves, with each $3. UV coating) to drive even deeper into true ‘metal’ territory. With artwork for each one- shot to be handled by praised Justice League and Suicide Squad artist Jason Fabok, expect the first cover images to spread like wildfire whenever the first previews are released.

Although the first marketing materials have focused on Batman’s central role in METAL, all creators involved have emphasized that the event is truly a Justice League story. Which means fans of the Dark Knight will be just as pleased as those fond of Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, and more than one returning hero revealed in THE FORGE #1. The summer of 2. 01.

DC Comics, with Dark Days leading into Dark Nights, and even the Dark Multiverse and Dark Matter to spin out of it. And before the thrill of DC’s Rebirth had even worn off.

Plus there’s the “huge, crazy, out of control lasers and dinosaurs” Snyder has promised for METAL… even if we can’t figure out where they’ll fit in, we’d be lying if we said we cared.