Tag line or trailer speech: You'll not dare to even talk about it with anyone after experiencing this ultimate nightmare of your lifetime!
Yes..ladies & gentlemen, you have seen the monster (Frankenstein)..you have been scared about the night breeders (Dracula & Wolf Man) but the film that's going to change the face of Horror cinema forever is...
Keeping the later 40's & early 50's scenario, I would like to give the film a dark,Gothic & haunting look and less graphic & violent element as possible.
Story:
After receiving a suspicious letter & strange gift (a dagger) by mail from a far distant relative- "Uncle Orge" (who have been disappeared for many years), Ashley Williams & his brother Scott Williams venture into the hills and mountains of Tennessee to figure out the mystery about him. He has written that he's been very sorry for all of his 'wrong' doings in life and specially for the recent & untimely death of her wife..Martha. But the most strange thing is he has also placed a very strange request to them...to send someone to destroy all his belongings out there which he mentioned as 'Cursed & Evil'. He thinks that he'll never able to do that by himself as he has 'very short time' left for his own. But the William brothers thinks that Uncle Orge may be actually a very wealthy & rich man as they heard once that he used to travel lot of strange places around the world. So to make the trip as a pleasure vacation type, Ash & Scott also take their wives (Linda & Shelly) and their sweet sister Cheryl with them to spend a weekend in the isolated cabin at the woods where their Uncle Orge lives as he written on the letter.
When they get into the cabin they figure out the mysterious absence of Uncle Orge and discover that he used to practice demonic rituals and witchcraft type of things. While searching the basement of the cabin, they find the Book of the Dead and a diary belonging to Uncle Orge.
As Ash begins to read the diary-- which just happens to be Candarian resurrection passages translated from the Necronomicon (Book of the Dead) by Uncle Orge, unleashes an evil force from the woods.
(Before the possession begins, I won't like to change anything..specially the scene where Cheryl draws the wall clock sitting besides the window and the haunting scenario... would be exactly the same as Raimi did with in the original)
The characters are then possessed one by one, beginning with Cheryl, after she is
hauntingly attacked by the evil force (using the nearby branches of trees) in sequences of intense (less violent than 80's ED) and horrifying voice-overs. Cheryl makes it home to the cabin but nobody believes her. .......Like this one I would like to change few other scenes as:
1] Soon after, in the cabin Cheryl becomes a demon and
grabs Linda's neck & try to kill her. But before that she already threaten everyone in Uncle Orge's voice that they have just called/awaken the evil forces that has been lurking in the woods for a long time'. They lock her in the cellar, but soon after Shelly becomes possessed and attacks Scotty who kills her with the dagger that Uncle Orge sent them...2] Linda later returns and run into Ash, but
she falls on the fireplace, burnt heavily & seems she is finally dead. Ash drags her outside & bury her. She rises from the grave and then Ash hits her with the shovel and come back to the cabin. He then find that the cellar door flown open. He saw Cheryl & Linda just outside the window and tries to break in. Ash shoots them with a riffle (that Scott found on the basement), but then don't die. 3] Cheryl & Linda starts to knock on the door & call Ash with a normal voice, but now Ash get the trick, so he open the door & shoots both of them. But they still comes to attack him then he slides a bookshelf in front of the door. ....4] Ash notices that The Book of the Dead has fallen into the fireplace. He puts it directly into the flames and the demons stop and begin to
vanishes in the wind as dawn breaks.
The same ending+the screen goes dark & the voice of Uncle Orge says..."I told them to send someone else rather than to come here & die and let 'them' free..!":D
Credits:
Assistant Director:
Jacques Tourneur
Story Editor:
Val Lewton
Screenplay:
DeWitt Bodeen & Curt Siodmak
Casts:
Kirk Douglas as
Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams
Burt Lancaster as
Scott
Julie Adams as
Linda
Yvonne De Carlo as
Cheryl
Lizabeth Scott as
Shelly
Background narrator/voice: Boris Karloff as
Uncle Orge