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        Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn Transcription - April 1995 - V1.1
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        [Montage of the origins of the Book of the Dead]
Prof:   (Voice Over)  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.

        RENAISSANCE PICTURES Presents
        EVIL DEAD II

        [Daytime - In a car while 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:  (giggle)
        <The car crosses a bridge>

        [Nighttime - In the cabin]
        <Ash plays the piano as Linda dances>
Ash:    Whoa.
Linda:  (giggle)  Ow.  <finds a necklace Ash has given to her>
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.
        <Linda goes to another room to change>
Ash:    Hey!  There's a... There's a tape recorder here.
Linda:  See what's on it.
        <Ash plays the tape recorder>
Prof:   (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".
        <the Evil Force approaches and takes Linda away>
        <Ash investigates Linda's room>
Ash:    Linda?  Hey Lind-
        <Ash goes to look outside>

        [Outside the cabin]
Ash:    Linda!?!
        <Ash chops off Possessed Linda's head with a shovel and buries her
        body>
        Linda...
        <Ash is carried away by the Evil Force and is possessed, returns
        to normal as daylight approaches but sleeps until dusk>

        [Daytime - At the cabin]
        <Ash is awake>
Ash:    It's gone.  The sun's driven it away.  Yeah.  For now.  Gotta...
        Gotta blow out of here for now...
        <The Evil Force appears then disappears>
EvlFrc: Join us.
        <Ash drives his car to the bridge which is now wrecked>
Ash:    Ah.  Oh.  Oh God.  No.  Oh no.  No... no... No!!!!  Gotta, I go
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        get a grip on myself here.
        <The sun goes down and Ash drives his car back to cabin but is stopped
        by the Evil Force and Ash crashes through windshield.  Ash gets up
        and the Evil Force chases him through the cabin but he is able to
        hide from it in the cellar>

        [Nighttime - At a small airport]
Annie:  (to crewer)  Thank you.
Ed:     Annie!

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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?

        [Nighttime - In the cabin]
        <Ash investigates the piano that is playing by itself and remembers
        Linda>
        <Ash observes Linda's corpse get up and dance>
PosLin: Dance with me. (cackling)
Ash:    Ahhhhhh <realises he's still in the rocking chair and it was all a
        dream?>
        Ehhh... yeah, just a-
        <Possessed Linda's head falls into Ash's lap>
PosLin: Hello lover.  <Bites Ash's hand>  <Ash tries repeatedly
        to get Possessed Linda's head off his hand>
Ash:    Workshed.

        [In the workshed]
        <Ash puts Linda's head in a vice>
PosLin: Even now we have your darling Linda's soul.  She suffers in torment.
Ash:    You're going down.  Chainsaw.
        <Possessed Linda's body attacks Ash with the chainsaw>
        <Ash retrieves the chainsaw from Possessed Linda's body>
Linda:  <About to cut Possessed Linda's head with the chainsaw>  Please
        Ash... please don't hurt me.  You swore- you swore that we'd always
        be together.  I love you.
Ash:    Nooo!
PosLin: Yah!  Your lover is mine and now she burns in Hell.
Ash:    <reluctantly>  Oh yeah, alright... OK.  <Ash chainsaws Possessed
        Linda's head>

        [In the cabin]
        <Ash gets a shotgun, hears groaning from the rocking chair and then
        looks in a mirror>
Ash:    I'm fine... I'm fine.
        <Ash's reflection grabs him>
MirAsh: I don't think so.  We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw.
        Does that sound fine?  (chuckle)
        <Ash's right hand turns on him>
Ash:    You bastards!  You dirty bastards!  <weeping>  Give me back my hand!
        Give me back my haaaaand!!

        [On a country road at the wrecked bridge]
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?
        <Jake turns on pick up's head lights to reveal the wrecked bridge>
Annie:  There must be another way in.  There's gotta be another road or
        something.
BobJoe: Sure ain't no road.  <spits>  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 buck.
Annie:  Tell ya what, you take my bags and you got a deal.
Jake:   Sure.  (dorky laugh)
Annie:  (with an evil grin)  Heh heh.

        [In the cabin]
        <Ash fights his possessed hand and then stabs it to the floor>
Ash:    Ah. Ah.  That's right.  Who's laughing now?  Who's laughing now?
        Yahhhh!  Ahhhh!  <Ash cuts off his hand with the chainsaw>

        [On the trail to the cabin]
Jake:   Jesus 
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H. Christ...  thought all she was talking about were those two
        Goddamn little bags.

        [In the cabin]
Ash:    Here's your new home.  <places a can on his hand then tapes up his
        wrist>
        <Ash's hand escapes and Ash tries to shoot it with the shotgun>
        (BOOM)
        <Ash's hand gets caught in a mouse trap>
        Aha!!  <Ash's hand fingers Ash>  Son of a-  A
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rrgh!  (BOOM)  (BOOM)
        Gotcha didn't I you little sucker?!  <Ash is sprayed with blood>
        Old double barrel here... blow your butts to kingdom come.  See if
        we don't...
        <Objects in room begin laughing at Ash.  Ash laughs with them>
        <Ash shoots through door then Jake jumps him>
Jake:   You little bastard!  <punches Ash out>  You gonna be alright honey?
BobJoe: 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?  <sees the bloody chainsaw>
        <To Ash>  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.  <points to cellar>  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.  <kicks Ash down into cellar>
BobJoe: I hope you rot down there.  <spits on Ash>

        [In the cabin]
BobJoe: 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.
        <Annie plays the tape recorder>
Prof:   (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.
Prof:   (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!
Prof:   (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.
        <Possessed Henrietta raises from out of the ground>
Ash:    Wahhhhhhhhhh!
Jake:   What the hell was that?
Ed:     Somebody's down there with him.
Annie:  No, can't be.
BobJoe: Let's get the fuck out of here.
PosHen: 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!
PosHen: Come to me.
Ash:    Ah!  Help!  Help!  Help me!
PosHen: Come to sweet Henrietta.  Hahaha.
Annie:  Hurry!
Ash:    Help!  Help me please!
PosHen: I'll swallow your soul.
        <Ash is pulled out of the cellar>
BobJoe: Do something!
        <Ed punches Possessed Henrietta but is knocked away>
        <Ash fights Possessed Henrietta causing her eyeball to fly into
        Bobby Joe's mouth>
        <Ash locks the chains to cellar again>

        [In the cabin]
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.
BobJoe: 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-
Hnryta: (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.
Hnryta: Remember
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 that song Annie?  I used to sing it to you when you were a
        baby.
Annie:  Mother?
Hnryta: Unlock these chains.  Quickly!
        <Ash grabs Annie and reminds her of what Henrietta really is>
Annie:  No.
Hnryta: 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 m
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y mother.
        <Possessed Ed jumps out of nowhere>
PosEd:  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.
PosHen: Dead by dawn.  Dead by dawn.
PosEd:  Dead by dawn.  Dead by dawn.
PosHen: Dead by dawn.
PosEd:  Dead by dawn.
        <Possessed Ed attacks Bobby Joe>
PosHen: Let me out.
Jake:   Thirsty son of a bitch.
        <Jake is knocked out>
Annie:  Where you going?  Help us you filthy coward!
PosHen: Quickly.  Set me free.
        <Ash defeats Possessed Ed with an axe>
PosHen: We live!  We live still!

        [Still Nighttime - Still in the cabin]
Jake:   That's funny.
BobJoe: 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.
        <The gang tracks Evil Forces buzzing in the walls>
Jake:   What the hell was that?
Ash:    Maybe something trying to force its way into our world.
BobJoe: It's in there.  <points to another room>
Ash:    We'll all go in together.
Jake:   Hell no.  You're the curious one.
Annie:  <gets a lantern>  Hey.  I'll go with you.

        [In the other room]
        <Jake jumps into the room>
Jake:   Shit.  I told you there weren't nothing in here no how.
        <Jake and Bobby Joe hold hands, tightly>
        <A spirit appears in front of them>
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!
        <The spirit disappears>
BobJoe: Jake.  You're holding my hand too tight.
Jake:   Baby, I ain't holding your hand.
        <the gang realise that it is Ash's severed hand, panic happens, the
        lantern is knocked out but is relit again>
Jake:   Hey?  Where's Bobby Joe?
        <Bobby Joe runs through forest only to be caught and taken away by
        Evil Trees>

        [In the cabin]
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.
        <Ash gets a chill>
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.
        <throws the pages into the cellar>  Besides, now you ain't got no
        choice.  Now move!

        [Outside the cabin]
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!!!
        <The Evil Force approaches>
Ash:    You'll get us all killed!
Jake:   Shut up!
Annie:  Leave him alone!
Jake:   Get outta here-  Bobby Joe!!!!  Bobby - Joe!!!!!  Bobby
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 Joe...  Where
        are you, girl?
        <Ash is now possessed and attacks Jake and chases Annie>
PosAsh: <To Annie> You're next.  Annie!

        [Inside the cabin]
        <Annie stabs Jake with a scepter>
Annie:  No... no...
        <Annie closes door on Possessed Ash>
Jake:   Ahhhh!
Annie:  I'm sorry!
Jake:   Get me another room.  Get the axe.  We'll kill it when it
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back.  But first, pull this damn thing out of me!
        <Annie pulls the scepter out of Jake>
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!
        <Annie pulls the wounded Jake to the living room>
Jake:   Check outside the windows.  Check the windows, he's probably right
        out-  Ahhh!  Help me!  <Jake is pulled into the cellar by Possessed
        Henrietta>
Annie:  Oh God!  <Possessed Ash reappears and knocks Annie out>  Ahhhhh!
        <Possessed Ash comes across Linda's necklace>
PosAsh: Ahhhhh!! <weeping>  Waahahaha!  <turns back into normal Ash>
        <Annie attacks Ash with the axe>
Ash:    No! No wait!  Listen to me!  I'm alright now.  That thing is gone!
        <Annie continues to attack>
        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.
PosHen: (cackling) Hahahaha.

        [In the workshed]
        <Montage of Ash equipping himself with chainsaw and shotgun>
Ash:    Groovy.

        [In the cabin]
Ash:    Those pages are down there somewhere.
        <Ash heads into the cellar, finds the pages, gives them to Annie and
        fights Possessed Henrietta>
Annie:  "Nos veratos alamemnon conda."
        <Possessed Henrietta, out of the cellar, grabs Annie by the hair>
Ash:    (whistles)  <To Possessed Henrietta>  Let's go.  <fights Possessed
        Henrietta>
PosHen: 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.
        <Ash cuts off Possessed Henrietta's head as it is distracted>
PosHen: Hey!  I'll swallow your soul!  I'll swallow your soul!  I'll swallow
        your soul!
Ash:    Swallow this.  (BOOM)
        <Ash and Annie hug as the Evil Forest attacks the cabin>
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!
        <Annie recites the second passage>
        <Annie is stabbed by Ash's severed hand and collapses>
Ash:    No!!!
        <Ash fights an Evil Tree>
        <Annie struggles to finish the second passage and the vortex opens>
EvlTre: We've won.  We've won.  Victory is ours.
        <Ash attacks the Evil Tree as it is sucked into the vortex>
Ash:    You did it kid.  By God-  <Now Ash is being sucked into the vortex>
        No!!!!  Ahhhhh!!  For God's sake!  How do you stop it?
        <Ash is sucked into the vortex and he and his Delta 88 fall out of
        the sky in Medieval England, 1300 AD>

        [Late Medieval England]
Man:    Slay the beast.  It is a deadite!
        <A winged deadite appears>
Man:    Run!  Back to the castle!
        (BOOM)  <Ash shoots the winged deadite>
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!!!

        directed by     SAM RAIMI
        produced by     ROBERT G. TAPERT
        starring        BRUCE CAMPBELL
        written by      SAM RAIMI
                        SCOTT SPIEGEL
        executive       IRVIN SHAPIRO
           producers    ALEX DE BENEDETTI
        co-producer     BRUCE CAMPBELL
        music composed  JOSEPH LO DUCA
           by
        special make up MARK SHOSTROM
           designed and
           created by
        director of     PETER DEMING
           photography
        director
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 of     EUGENE SHLUGLEIT
           night
           exterior
           photography
        art directors   PHILIP DUFFIN
                        RANDY BENNETT
        edited by       KAYE DAVIS

                CAST
        BRUCE CAMPBELL  ash
        SARAH BERRY     annie
        DAN HICKS       jake
        KASSIE WESLEY   bobby joe
        THEODORE RAIMI  possessed henrietta
   
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     DENISE BIXLER   linda
        RICHARD DOMEIER ed
        JOHN PEAKS      professor knowby
        LOU HANCOCK     henrietta


                fake shemps

                SID ABRAMS
        JOSH BECKER     ROC SANDSTORM
        SCOTT SPIEGEL   THOMAS KIDD
        MITCH CANTOR    JENNY GRIFFITH

        and featuring the amazing voice of
        WILLIAM PRESTON ROBERTSON

        "Evil Dead II", the sequel to the ultimate experience in grueling
        terror, was filmed in Wadesboro, North Carolina and Detroit, U.S.A.

        C1987 Rosebud Releasing Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        --
        Approximate Running Time: 84 minutes
        Transcribed by Stephen Hugh Chan
        (e-mail: schanc@sfu.ca)

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