Evil Dead II

Screenplay by       Sam Raimi

Produced by       Robert Tapert

Directed by       Sam Raimi

Cast List:

Bruce Campbell     Ash

Sarah Berry      Annie

Dan Hicks     Jake

Kassie Wesley      Bobby Joe

Richard Domeier    Ed

Denise Bixler     Linda

Theodore Raimi      Possessed Henrietta

Lou Hancock      Henrietta

FADE IN:

MONTAGE OF THE ORIGINS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

PROFESSR (V.O.)

Legend has it that it was written by the Dark Ones. Necronomicon 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.

TITLE CARD:

"EVIL DEAD II"

INT. CAR – DAY

Driving on a remote highway.

LINDA

So what's this place like?

ASH

Well it's a little run-down... but, uh, it's right up in the mountains.

LINDA

Are you sure it's deserted?

ASH

Oh yeah... I think so.

Linda giggles.

INT. CABIN – NIGHT

ASH

Whoa.

LINDA

(giggle)

Ow.

ASH

So what do you think kid?

LINDA

I love it Ash.

LINDA

I feel funny about being here. What if the people who own the place come home?

ASH

They're not gonna come back. Even if they do we'll tell them the car broke down or something like that.

LINDA

With your car, they'd believe it.

ASH

Hey, what do you say we have some champagne hey baby?

LINDA

Sure.

ASH

After all, I'm a man and you're a woman, at least last time I checked.

LINDA

OK.

ASH

Hey! There's a... There's a tape recorder here.

LINDA

See what's on it.

PROFESSOR

(on tape)

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 Candar. Having journeyed there with my wife Henrietta, my daughter Annie and Associate Professor Ed Getly. It was in the rear chamber of the castle that we stumbled upon something remarkable. Morturom 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. "Cunda astratta montose eargrets gutt nos veratoos canda amantos canda".

ASH

Linda? Hey Lind...

EXT. CABIN

ASH

Linda!?! Linda...

AT THE CABIN – DAY

ASH

It's gone. The sun's driven it away. Yeah. For now. Gotta... Gotta blow out of here for now...

EVIL FORCE

Join us.

ASH

Ah. Oh. Oh God. No. Oh no. No... no... No!!!! Gotta, I gotta get a grip on myself here.

AIRPORT – NIGHT

Annie

(to Crewer)

Thank you.

ED

Annie!

ANNIE

Hi!

ED

How'd the expedition go?

ANNIE

Great. I found the pages of the Book of the Dead.

ED

Yeah, I got your telegram. Thanks. So what condition are they in?

ANNIE

Take a look.

ED

They haven't aged a day in 3000 years.

ANNIE

Maybe longer.

ED

When do we begin the translations?

ANNIE

Tonight. Is everything all set with my father?

ED

Well, 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 onto something in the first part of his translations. What has he found in the Book of the Dead?

ANNIE

Probably nothing. But just possibly, a doorway to another world?

INT. CABIN – NIGHT

LINDA

(possessed)

Dance with me.

(cackling)

ASH

Ahhhhhh Ehhh... yeah, just a...

LINDA

(possessed)

Hello lover.

ASH

Workshed.

INT. WORKSHED

LINDA

(possessed)

Even now we have your darling Linda's soul. She suffers in torment.

ASH

You're going down. Chainsaw.

LINDA

Please Ash... please don't hurt me. You swore- you swore that we'd always be together. I love you.

ASH

Nooo!

LINDA

(possessed)

Yah! Your lover is mine and now she burns in Hell.

ASH

Oh yeah, alright... OK.

INT. CABIN – NIGHT

Ash looks at his reflection in a mirror.

ASH

I'm fine... I'm fine.

MIRROR ASH

I don't think so. We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound fine?

(chuckle)

ASH

You bastards! You dirty bastards! Give me back my hand! Give me back my haaaaand!!

AT THE WRECKED BRIDGE – NIGHT

ANNIE

Excuse me. Excuse me. Is this the road to the Knowby cabin?

JAKE

That's right. And you ain't going there.

ANNIE

And why not?

ANNIE

There must be another way in. There's gotta be another road or something.

BOBBY JOE

Sure ain't no road. Why the hell do you want to go up there for anyway? Huh?

ANNIE

None of your business.

JAKE

(clap)

Hey! I just remembered. Why, yeah... that's right. There is a trail. You could uh, follow Bobby Joe and me.

ED

Sounds alright to me.

JAKE

But it'll cost ya.

ANNIE

How much?

JAKE

Forty fi...

(nudge from Bobby Joe)

Hundred bucks.

ANNIE

Tell ya what, you take my bags and you got a deal.

JAKE

Sure.

(dorky laugh)

ANNIE

(with an evil grin)

Heh heh.

INT. CABIN – NIGHT

ASH

Ah. Ah. That's right. Who's laughing now? Who's laughing now? Yahhhh! Ahhhh!

TRAIL TO CABIN – NIGHT

JAKE

Jesus H. Christ... thought all she was talking about were those two Goddamn little bags.

INT. CABIN – NIGHT

ASH

Here's your new home.

(BOOM!)

Aha!! Son of a... Arrgh!

(BOOM! BOOM!)

Gotcha didn't I you little sucker?! Old double barrel here... blow your butts to kingdom come. See if we don't...

JAKE

You little bastard! You gonna be alright honey?

BOBBY JOE

I-I don't know. I-I think so.

JAKE

You just sit still for a minute. You know this son of a bitch?

ED

No we thought her father was going to be here. That's why we decided –

ANNIE

Oh my God! Where are my parents? What the hell did you do to them? What the hell did you do to them?

ED

Annie, come here. Annie, come here... come here.

JAKE

We'll throw him in there. Crazy buck's gone blood seeking.

ASH

Wait. I made a mistake. Wait. Wait. Wait. I made a mistake.

JAKE

Damn right. Blackmail son of a bitch.

BOBBY JOE

I hope you rot down there.

INT. CABIN – LATER – NIGHT

BOBBY JOE

Oh shit!

JAKE

I know it hurts baby, but everything's gonna be fine. Now in about five minutes I'm gonna go fetch the sheriff and bring him-

ED

Checked all the other rooms. Folks aren't here. Maybe they never came.

ANNIE

But these are my father's things.

PROFESSOR

(on tape)

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.

ANNIE

Shhh... Listen up. This is my father's voice.

PROFESSOR

(on tape)

And now I fear that my wife has become host to a Candarian Demon. May God forgive me for what I have unleashed unto this earth. Last night Henrietta tried to... kill me.

ANNIE

No!

PROFESSOR

(on tape)

It's now October 1st, 4:33 PM. Henrietta is dead. I could not bring myself to dismember her corpse. But I dragged her down the steps... and I buried her. I buried her in the cellar. God help me, I buried her in the earthen floor of the fruit cellar.

ASH

Wahhhhhhhhhh!

JAKE

What the hell was that?

ED

Somebody's down there with him.

ANNIE

No, can't be.

BOBBY JOE

Let's get the fuck out of here.

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

Someone's in my fruit cellar. Someone with a fresh soul!

ASH

Ah! Ah! Let me out! There's something down here! Ah!

ANNIE

Let him out!

JAKE

It's a trick, I know it!

ANNIE

Let him out!!

ASH

Move it! Open those chains up!

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

Come to me.

ASH

Ah! Help! Help! Help me!

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

Come to sweet Henrietta. Hahaha.

ANNIE

Hurry!

ASH

Help! Help me please!

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

I'll swallow your soul.

BOBBY JOE

Do something!

INT. CABIN – NIGHT

ASH

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.

BOBBY JOE

Plee! Please let's just get the hell out of here!

JAKE

We're going baby. We're going to get on that trail-

ASH

Nobody's going out that door, not till daylight.

JAKE

Now you listen to me –

HENRIETTA

(singing)

Hush little baby don't say a word, Mama's going to by you a mocking bird. If that mocking bird don't sing, Mama's going to buy you a diamond ring. If that diamond ring turns brass, Mama's going to buy you a looking glass.

HENRIETTA

Remember that song Annie? I used to sing it to you when you were a baby.

ANNIE

Mother?

HENRIETTA

Unlock these chains. Quickly!

ANNIE

No.

HENRIETTA

You were born September 2nd, 1962. I remember it well because it was snowing. So strange it would be snowing in September.

ANNIE

That thing in the cellar is not my mother.

ED

(possessed)

We are the things that were and shall be again. Hahahahha. Steps of the Book. We want what is yours. Life! Ha ha ha ha! Dead by dawn. Dead by dawn.

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

Dead by dawn. Dead by dawn.

ED

(possessed)

Dead by dawn. Dead by dawn.

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

Dead by dawn.

ED

(possessed)

Dead by dawn.

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

Let me out.

JAKE

Thirsty son-of-a-bitch.

ANNIE

Where you going? Help us you filthy coward!

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

Quickly. Set me free. We live! We live still!

STILL IN THE CABIN – NIGHT

JAKE

That's funny.

BOBBY JOE

What?

JAKE

That trail we came in here on? It just ain't there no more. Like, like the woods just swallowed her up.

ANNIE

It's so quiet.

JAKE

What the hell was that?

ASH

Maybe something trying to force its way into our world.

BOBBY JOE

It's in there.

ASH

We'll all go in together.

JAKE

Hell no. You're the curious one.

ANNIE

Hey. I'll go with you.

INT. CABIN – ANOTHER ROOM – NIGHT

JAKE

Shit. I told you there weren't nothing in here no how.

JAKE

Holy Mother o' Mercy.

ANNIE

Father?

SPIRIT

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!

BOBBY JOE

Jake. You're holding my hand too tight.

JAKE

Baby, I ain't holding your hand.

JAKE

Hey? Where's Bobby Joe?

INT. CABIN – NIGHT

JAKE

Hey? Where the hell is she? We gotta go out there and find her.

ASH

If she went out in those woods, you can forget about her.

ANNIE

What's wrong?

ASH

Felt like someone just walked over my grave. What's that picture? What is that?

ANNIE

In 1300 AD they called this man the, ah, hero from the sky. He was prophesied to have destroyed the Evil.

ASH

Didn't do a very good job... Can you find it?

ANNIE

Here it is, two passages. Recitation of this first passage will make this dark spirit manifest itself in the flesh.

ASH

Why the hell would we want to do that?

ANNIE

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 –

(shotgun reloading)

JAKE

Uh-huh. That's right. I'm running the show now. We're going to go out there in them woods and look for Bobby Joe. Once we find her we're getting the hell out of here.

ASH

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.

JAKE

Bunch of mumbo jumbo bullshit. These pages don't mean squat. Besides, now you ain't got no choice. Now move!

EXT. CABIN – NIGHT

JAKE

Move.

ASH

Look. You're nuts.

JAKE

I said move!

ANNIE

No! You stupid fool!

JAKE

I'll blow your fucken head off.

ASH

Hey. No trail. Where to now?

JAKE

Bobby Joe! Bobby Joe!! Bobby Joe!!!

ASH

You'll get us all killed!

JAKE

Shut up!

ANNIE

Leave him alone!

JAKE

Get outta here... Bobby Joe!!!! Bobby Joe!!!!! Bobby Joe... Where are you, girl?

ASH

(possessed)

You're next. Annie!

INT. CABIN – NIGHT

ANNIE

No... no...

JAKE

Ahhhh!

ANNIE

I'm sorry!

JAKE

Get me another room. Get the axe. We'll kill it when it comes back. But first, pull this damn thing out of me!

JAKE

Ahhh! I can't breathe, I can't breathe. Hurry!

ANNIE

I'm trying! I'm trying!

JAKE

Ahhhh!

ANNIE

Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

JAKE

Check outside the windows. Check the windows, he's probably right out... Ahhh! Help me!

ANNIE

Oh God! Ahhhhh!

ASH

(possessed)

Ahhhhh!! Waahahaha!

ASH

No! No wait! Listen to me! I'm alright now. That thing is gone! Damn it! I said I was alright! Are you listening to me? You hear what I'm saying? I'm alright! I'm alright.

ANNIE

OK, maybe you are. But for how long? If we're going to beat this thing, we need those pages.

ASH

Then let's head down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch.

HENRIETTA

(possessed; cackling)

Hahahaha.

INT. WORKSHED

ASH

Groovy.

INT. CABIN – NIGHT

ASH

Those pages are down there somewhere.

ANNIE

"Nos veratos alamemnon conda."

ASH

(whistles)

Let's go.

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

I'll swallow your soul. I'll swallow your soul.

ANNIE

(singing)

Hush little baby don't say a word, Mama's going to buy you a mock... mocking bird.

HENRIETTA

(possessed)

Hey! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul!

ASH

Swallow this.

(BOOM!)

ASH

G –

ANNIE

I only completed the first of the passages and that was to make the Evil a thing of the flesh!

ASH

Finish it!

ANNIE

There's still the second passage. The one- the one to open the rift and send the Evil back!

ASH

Well start reciting it! Now!

ASH

Don't look Annie! Finish the passages! Get rid of it!

ASH

No!!!

EVIL TREE

We've won. We've won. Victory is ours.

ASH

You did it kid. By God... No!!!! Ahhhhh!! For God's sake! How do you stop it?

LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

MAN

Slay the beast. It is a deadite!

MAN

Run! Back to the castle!

(BOOM!)

KNIGHT

Hail he who has come from the skies to deliver us from the terrors of the deadites!

CROWD

Hail! Hail! Hail!

ASH

No! No! No!! No!!! No!!!! No!!!! No!!!