As if this weren’t enough, in the opening scene, Jessica was possessed by Deadites, leading her to rip her boyfriend’s head off and scalp her friend.

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A single mother possessed by Deadites, Ellie was a force of nature.

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Following two successful movies in the last ten years, the franchise is poised to raise the stakes in the war against the Deadites, and whoever is fighting them could certainly use the most powerful weapon that Ash Williams has ever gotten his hands on.

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Great swathes of are taken up by Ash battling skeletons and Deadites with a Medieval army, resulting in large-scale destruction rather than intimate terror.

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The Deadites in each film are brought on by people reading from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.

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The hand is one of the few Deadites that escapes Ash Williams multiple times, and it is also able to grow an evil clone of Ash Williams, proving that it has abilities beyond human comprehension.

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