five vacationing college students, Ash, Cheryle, Shelly, and Scotty, unwittingly resurrect these slumbering demons, Form the Book of the Dead
and are forced into battle with the supernatural forces that occupy the forests and dark bowers of man's domain. The innocent must suffer. The guilty must be punished. One-by-one,
the students are possessed by these demons whose thirst for revenge is insatiable. As the night wanes, only one man remains... Ash. He must now defend himself while trying to uncover the horrible secret of The Evil Dead.