Is Ash vs Evil Dead Scary? The Verdict and the Whole Plot

Thirty years of not thinking about a book in a trunk

Ash Williams stocks shelves at a Value Stop, has a trailer for a home and does his drinking alone at bars, about thirty years after his last fight with the Deadites. His coworkers are Pablo, and Kelly, whom Pablo likes. After reading from the Necronomicon aloud while high, Ash wakes the curse again. Pablo and Kelly work out that it is his fault, and Ash picks his chainsaw back up. Kelly's mother turns up after months of being feared dead, and Ash is sure she is a Deadite. She reveals herself at dinner and kills Kelly's father with a fork. Ash kills her, the three bury the bodies and drive away. Detective Amanda Fisher is following the trail of deaths toward Ash, and the mysterious Ruby Knowby is following her. At an occult bookstore, the owner summons a demon named Eligos, who escapes the circle and possesses Kelly. Pablo's uncle the Brujo performs an exorcism, and Ash gets a vision that tells him to bury the book at the cabin in the woods.

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Back at the cabin with a book that talks

A diner and a militia bunker later, Amanda has joined Ash's group and the Brujo's funeral has gone badly for Ruby. Ash returns to the cabin armed with a chainsaw, a shotgun and the Necronomicon. His old girlfriend Linda's severed head taunts him, and an evil double of Ash impales Amanda on a deer head. Pablo and Kelly kill the double, and Amanda comes back as a Deadite. Ruby arrives and says she has been cleaning up Ash's mess. She tells him the book has to be dismantled instead of buried, and Ash cuts off its face. Ruby then claims she wrote the Necronomicon and starts a ritual to unleash the evil on the world, and the face of the book attaches itself to Pablo. Ruby offers Ash a peaceful retirement in Jacksonville. He takes a deal that lets her release spirits she says she can control, and he drives off with Kelly and Pablo while sinkholes open around the world.

An asylum run by a demon with a lot of faces

The deal falls apart in Jacksonville, and the group goes to Ash's hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan, where his father Brock and his old love Linda still live. Ruby's demon children have turned on her, and her ex-husband Baal is the reason. The possessed Delta, Ash's car, goes on a killing spree with the book inside it, and Baal begins wearing people's skin. Ash is locked in an asylum where a doctor says the Necronomicon was a delusion. The doctor is Baal. The scene people dread is near the end of the season, in episode eight. Ash pretends to give in so he can get Pablo and Baal into one room, and Pablo reads the incantation that sends Baal back to hell. Before he vanishes, Baal slashes Pablo across the stomach and cuts him in half. Ash and the others travel back to 1982 to stop young Ash from reading the book. It goes wrong, and Ash ends up in a fair fight with Baal, who has taken over Pablo's body. Ash wins, the cabin burns, Baal and Ruby are banished and Pablo comes back to life.

A high school with a mascot problem

In season three the Necronomicon is found and read again, and Ash meets Candace, a former lover who has a daughter with him named Brandy. At Kenward County High School a possessed girl decapitates Candace, and Ash fights the possessed school mascot before Kelly and a Knight of Sumeria named Dalton arrive. Ruby drinks blood over a drawing of Ash and becomes pregnant, then gives birth to a demonic spawn modeled on him. She disguises herself as a guidance counselor to turn Brandy against Ash. Ruby also resurrects Ash's father Brock, and Ash has to fight him in front of Brandy. Pablo is possessed, bites Kelly and infects her, and Brandy stabs him with the Kandarian Dagger. In a realm between life and death, the Brujo explains that Pablo must take his place as the next Brujo. Pablo finishes the ritual and returns to the living. Ash tries to capture the spawn to prove his story to Brandy, and she chooses to believe him.

A school dance with two Ashes and one chainsaw

The Knights of Sumeria help Ash open a rift to the Deadlands, which sit somewhere between the human world and hell. A knight who goes through returns as a demon and kills most of the others. Ruby kills Kelly with the dagger and uses her body as a vessel for the sorceress Kaya. At the school dance, Ruby's spawn has grown into a full clone of Ash, called Rash, who attacks the students to make Brandy believe her father is a demon. Ash kills the clone, but Brandy dies when she steps in front of a thrown dagger. Ash has Pablo kill him with the dagger on purpose, so he can go through the rift and rescue Brandy and Kelly. Dalton sacrifices himself to a shadow creature in the Deadlands. Kelly cannot return because Kaya is still using her body. The Dark Ones then take Ruby's and Kaya's souls and the Necronomicon, and they summon Kandar the Destroyer, a creature sixty feet tall.