Legend has it that it was written by the Dark Ones—
Necronomican ex Mortis...
roughly translated, Book of the Dead.
The book served as a passageway to the evil worlds beyond.
It was written long ago...
when the seas ran red with blood.
It was this blood that was used to ink the book.
In the year 1300 AD, the book disappeared.
So what's this place like?
Well, it's a little run-down, but it's right up in the mountains.
- Are you sure it's deserted? - Oh, yeah.
I think so.
So what do you think, kid?
I love it, Ash.
I feel funny about being here.
What if the people who own this place come home?
They're not gonna come back.
Even if they do, we'll tell them that the car broke down or something like that.
With your car, they'd believe it.
Hey, what do you say we have some champagne, huh, baby?
Sure.
After all, I'm a man, and you're a woman, at least last time I checked.
Okay.
Hey!
There's a tape recorder here.
See what's on it.
This is Professor Raymond Knowby, department of Ancient History...
log entry number two.
I believe I have made a significant find in the Castle of Kandar...
having journeyed there with my wife, Henrietta...
my daughter, Annie and Associate Professor Ed Getty.
It was in the rear chamber of the castle that we stumbled upon something remarkable—
Naturom Demonto...
the Book of the Dead.
My wife and I brought the book to this cabin...
where I could study it undisturbed.
It was here that I began the translations.
The book speaks of a spiritual presence...
a thing of evil that roams the forests and the dark bowers of man's domain.
It is through the recitation of the book's passages...
that this dark spirit is given license...
to possess the living.
Included here are the phonetic pronunciations of those passages.
Linda?
Hey, Lin—
Linda!
Linda.
It's gone.
The sun's driven it away.
Yeah.
For now.
Gotta—
Gotta blow out of here for now.
Join us.
Oh, God.
No.
No!
Oh, no.
No.
No!
I gotta—
I gotta get a grip on myself here.
Thank you.
-Annie'
- How'd the expedition go? - Great.
I found the pages of the Book of the Dead.
Yeah, I got your telegram. Thanks.
So, what condition are they in?
Take a look.
- They haven't aged a day in 3,000 years. - Maybe longer.
- When do we begin the translations? - Tonight.
Is everything all set with my father?
It should be, but I haven't spoken with him in a week.
There's no phone in the cabin.
We'll take my car.
It'll take us about an hour to get there.
Annie, you hinted in your telegram that your father was on to something...
with the first part of his translations.
- What has he found in the Book of the Dead? - Probably nothing.
But just possibly, the doorway to another world.
Oh, man.
Dance with me.
Yeah, just a—
Hello, lover.
Work shed.
Even now, we have your darling Linda's soul.
She suffers in torment.
You're going down.
Chain saw.
Don't!
Please, Ash.
Please don't hurt me.
You swore that we'd always be together.
I love you.
No!
Yes!
Your lover is mine, and now she burns in hell!
Yeah? All right. Okay!
I'm fine.
I don't think so.
We just cut up our girlfriend with a chain saw.
Does that sound fine?
You bastards.
You dirty bastards!
Give me back my hand.
Give me back my hand!
Excuse me.
Is this the road to the Knowby cabin?
That's right. And you ain't goin' there.
And why not?
There must be another way in.
There's gotta be a road or something.
Sure ain't no road.
What the hell you wanna go up there for anyway?
None of your business.
Hey.
I just remembered. Yeah, that's right.
There is a trail.
You could follow Bobby Joe and me.
Sounds all right to me.
But it'll cost ya.
How much?
Forty fi—
Hundred buck.
Tell ya what. You take my bags and you got a deal.
Sure.
Jerk. You broke my tooth.
You son of a bitch.
That's right.
Who's laughing now?
Jesus H. Christ.
Thought she's talking about them two goddamn little bags.
Here's your new home.
Motherfucker!
- You son of a bitch. - You son of a—
Gotcha, didn't 1? You little sucker.
Old double-barrel here blow your butts to kingdom come!
See if we don't.
Hit him.
You little dirty bastard.
You gonna be all right, honey?
I don't know. I think so.
You just sit still for a minute.
You know this son of a bitch?
No. We thought her father was going to be here.
- That's why we decided— - Oh, my God.
Where are my parents?
What the hell did you do to them?
- What the hell did you do to them? - Annie, come here.
Annie, come here. Annie! Come here.
Come here.
We'll throw him in there.
Crazy buck's gone blood seeking.
No, wait.
I made a mistake.
- Wait. No, wait, wait. - Bring him over here.
- I made a mistake. - Damn right.
Black-mouthed son of a bitch!
I hope you rot down there.
Oh, shit!
I know it hurts, baby, but everything's gonna be fine.
About five minutes I'm gonna go fetch the sheriff and bring him—
Checked all the other rooms.
Folks aren't here.
Maybe they never came.
But these are my father's things.
It's only been a few hours since I've translated and spoken aloud...
the first of the demon resurrection passages from the Book of the Dead.
Listen up. This is my father's voice.
And now I fear that my wife has become host to a Kandarian demon.
May God forgive me for what I have unleashed unto this earth.
Last night Henrietta tried to kill me.
No.
It's now October 1, 4:33 p.m.
Henrietta is dead.
I could not bring myself to dismember her corpse.
But I dragged her down the steps...
and I buried her.
! buried her in the cellar.
God help me.
! buried her in the earthen floor of the fruit cellar.
- What the hell was that? - Somebody's down there with him.
- No. Can't be. - Let's get the fuck out of here.
Someone's in my fruit cellar.
Someone with a fresh soul.
Let me out! There's something down here!
- Let him out! - It's a trick! I know it!
- Let him out! - Move it!
Open those chains up!
Come to me.
Help! Help me!
Come to sweet Henrietta.
There's something down here!
Help me!
- Hurry! - I'm tr yin'!
Help!
Help me, please!
I'll swallow your soul.
Help me!
Do something!
There's something out there.
That—
That witch in the cellar is only part of it.
It lives out in those woods...
in the dark.
Something—
Something that's come back from the dead.
Jake! Please, let's get the hell out of here!
We're goin', baby. We're gonna get on that trail!
- Nobody leaves out that door! Not till daylight! - Now you listen to me.
Hush little baby Don't say a word
Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird
If that mockingbird don't sing
Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring
If that diamond ring turns brass
Mama's gonna buy you a looking glass
Remember that song, Annie?
I used to sing it to you when you were a baby.
Mother?
Unlock these chains. Quickly!
No.
You were born September 2, 1962.
I remember it well because it was snowy.
So strange it would be snowing in September.
That thing in the cellar is not my mother.
We are the things that were and shall be again.
Spirits of the book.
We want what is yours. Life!
Dead by dawn! Dead by dawn.
Dead by dawn! Dead by dawn!
Dead by dawn. Dead by dawn.
- Dead by dawn. - Dead by dawn.
Let me out!
You son of a bitch!
Where are you going? Help us, you filthy coward!
Quickly! Set me free!
No! No!
We live! We live still!
That's funny.
What?
That trail we came in here on?
Well, it just ain't there no more.
Like—
Like the woods just swallowed 'er up.
It's so quiet.
What the hell is that?
Maybe something trying to force its way into our world.
It's in there.
We'll all go in together.
Hell no. You're the curious one.
Hey.
I'll go with you.
Shit.
I told you there weren't nothin' in here nohow.
Holy mother o'mercy.
- Father? - Annie.
There is a...
dark spirit here that wants to destroy you.
Your salvation lies there...
in the pages of the book.
Recite the passages.
Dispel the evil.
Save my soul...
and your own lives!
Jake?
You're holdin' my hand too tight.
Baby, I ain't holdin' your hand.
Hey.
Where's Bobby Joe?
Hey. Where the hell is she?
We gotta go out there and find her.
If she went out in those woods, you can forget about her.
What's wrong?
Felt like someone just walked over my grave.
What's that picture? What is that?
In 1300 A.D., they called this man the hero from the sky.
He was prophesied to have destroyed the evil.
Didn't do a very good job.
Can you find it?
Here it is. Two passages.
Recitation of this first passage...
will make this dark spirit manifest itself in the flesh.
Why the hell would we want to do that?
Recitation of this second passage...
creates a kind of rift in time and space.
And the physical manifestation of this dark spirit can be forced back into the rift.
At least that's the best translation that I can—
That's right.
I'm runnin' this show now.
We're gonna go out there in them woods and look for Bobby Joe.
Once we find her, we're gettin' the hell out of here.
No, you idiot!
You'll kill us all.
She's dead by now. Don't you understand?
With these pages, at least we have a chance.
Bunch of mumbo jumbo bullshit.
These pages don't mean squat.
Besides, now you ain't got no choice.
Now move!
- Move. -You're nuts.
I said move!
No! You stupid fool!
- Son of a— - I'll blow your fuckin' head off.
Hey.
No trail.
Where to now?
Bobby Joe!
- You'll get us all killed! - Shut up!
- Leave him alone! - Get outta here.
Bobby Joe!
Bobby Joe? Where are you, girl?
Somebody help me!
Join us.
Annie!
No.
No!
— I'm sorry. - Get me in the other room.
Get the ax. We'll kill it when it comes back.
But first, pull this damn thing out of me!
I can't breathe. I can't breathe. Hurry!
Fm tr yin'! I'm tr yin'!
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
Check outside the windows.
Check the windows. He's probably right out—
Help me!
Oh, God!
Oh, yeah.
No! No! Wait!
Listen to me! I'm all right now!
That thing is gone!
Damn it! I said I was all right!
Are you listening to me? Do you hear what I'm saying?
I'm all right!
I'm all right.
Okay, maybe you are.
But for how long?
If we're going to beat this thing, we need those pages.
Then let's head down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch.
Groovy.
Those pages are down there somewhere.
The pages. Quick.
Come on! Come on!
Let's go.
Swallow your soul. I'll swallow your soul.
Hush little baby Don't say a word
Mama's gonna buy you a mock—
Mockingbird
Hey! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul!
I'll swallow your soul! I'll—
Swallow this.
No! No!
I only completed the first of the passages...
and that was to make the evil a thing of the flesh!
You didn't finish it?
There's still the second passage. The one—
The one to open the rift and send the evil back!
Well, start reciting it! Now!
Don't look, Annie. Finish the passages!
Get rid of it!
No!
We've won! We've won!
Victory is ours!
You did it, kid.
By God—
No!
For God's sake! How do you stop it?
Slay the beast! 'Tis a deadite!
Run!
Back to the castle!
Hail he who has come from the skies to deliver us from the terrors of the deadites!
Hail!
Hail' Hail!
- No! - Hail' Hail!