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Evil Dead IV: Ashes to Ashes


Ashley J. Williams has found himself 100 years into the future, in the apocalyptic wasteland of England. He has no idea what has happened, but it's been something big.

The film begins with the protagonist, Ash, laughing maniacally to himself. Quickly, he is heard, and a group of people in radiation suits come over to him. They grab him and carry him into an underground cavern, full of other people. Ash puts up no fight, and merely laughs to himself.

The group of people take off their suits and reveal themselves to be the order of the king, survivors the catastrophe who found writings of the brave king, and have lived in the hopes of finding him

Ash is about to ask what catastrophe they mean when an army of deadites swarm the cave. The group put up a brave fight. The scene includes many close up scenes of gore and blood. Eventually, the humans win it, with only one deadite left. But the deadite reveals it has a large number of grenades strapped to itself, and pulls the pin on one of them.

One of the men grabs Ash and dives for cover as the grenades go off. Everyone in the room is dead but Ash and the man. The man collects supplies from the cavern with Ash, then has a conversation, explaining that a band found the necronomicon and used the passage for raising demons in their song. Deadites were created worldwide, and eventually, there were more of them then there were people. Certain people survived, such as the order, and have fought against them ever since in a hope to rebuild humanity.

Ash and the man then take a plane from the back of the cavern and fly down the Germany, where the Necronomicon Exo Mortis is currently being held, in an attempt to destroy it, a mission the order were just about to undertake. The two of them have a mid air battle with a group of deadites causing the plane to crash into the sea. Ash drags the man, whose legs were broken in the crash, to shore on an island. The island creatures appear to be deadites and after a short fight, Ash and the man make their way to the top of hill and into an old fort.

In there, Ash finds out some more about the man. His name is Ashley also and he has fought deadites his entire life. Their coversation is interrupted when some germans with swords find them in the fort. Ashley speaks some German to them and they all nod. He tells Ash to hand over any weapons. He gives them a couple of knives. Ashley smiles at him, and then he and the Germans all reveal themselves to be Deadites. Ash is cornered but dives out of a hole in the wall, rolling down the hill and into the middle of a pack of deadite dogs. They chase him to the water, where he swims away from them. Before long, he's worn out, and he resigns himself to his fate when he sees a boat with the deadite, Ashley and the germans.

As they're right upon him, another boat appears and shoots all of the deadites until the boat is suitably covered in nothing more than limbs and red mush. The boat that came to his rescue lift Ash out of the water. As they drive away, there's a shot of Ashley, under the water. They are American and simply live on the water, only coming to land for supplies.

Ash asks if they have any idea where the Necronomicon is, in the hopes it can send him back in time. They have no idea what it is. After a few days of living on the boat and getting to know people, Ash is content with the life. It's peaceful.

The boat stops off at land. Everybody leaves it except Ash and a woman he has taken a liking to. Out on the land, all of the other people from the boat are silently killed by Ashley and a large group of Deadites. They swarm around the boat but Ash acts swiftly, driving out into the sea.

They appear to be safe, and Ash goes down into his room. He takes a glance at the bookcase and sees a book and takes it out. As he opens it, he notices something familiar. Ripping off the front cover reveals it to be the Necronomicon. Just as he's looking through it, Ashley, who is shown to have been holding on to the back of the boat, climbs aboard. He goes down to Ash and makes short work of him, beating him to the ground.

Ash asks why, to which Ashley explains who he is. He is the child of Evil Ash and Sheila, conceived in the rape. When he was thirty, he was struck by lightning. In that moment he knew who he was, and realized he was both human and deadite. He doesn't age, and simply wants control.

He made sure that the Necronomicon found it's way to the cabin in the woods to ensure his existence, but when he went to claim it after Ash was sent back in time, it was gone. He discovered that a band had found and bought it. He persuaded them to use some of it in a song, so the dead would rise and he would gain his powers. Since then he has spent his life trying to find the book.

Just as he is about to finish reading out an incantation, which would give him full control of every living being, the woman comes down and shoots the book. A huge hole appears in Ashley, so she does it a few more times until he's dead. The book starts to rot.

Ash shouts out at her, and worrying he will never be able to return home, he grabs the book and reads random words from it, just before it rots away totally. Ash falls through a portal, with the woman. They find themselves in the S-mart where Ash used to work. Things look slightly different, though. The two of them see a newspaper and gasp. It's 2031. Then, on the radio that's playing, they hear something.

"Okay, we now have a brand new song by The Evil Dead called Book of the Dead!"

A rock song starts playing with the passage that raises the dead. The camera zooms in on a screaming Ash, then goes to black.



I hope this satisfies the judges. I've only seen Evil Dead 1, so I'm going by what I know of Army of darkness.