The film opens with a lot of smoke as a narrator describes Necronomicon Ex Mortis, the book of the dead, as the smoke clears and the book flies towards and slaps on the screen getting stuck and then peeling off, the camera then enters the mouth a portal in the mouth on the book as the narrator states that it served as a passageway to the evil worlds beyond and that it was written when the seas ran red with blood, cutting to a blood red sea, and how that blood was used to ink the book, as the book gets filled in with blood red lettering. The narrator sates that the book then disappeared, and it fades to the opening credits and title, that then turns into the tunnel that Ash and his girlfriend emerge from. They are talking about the cabin they are going to stay in, Ash stating that it is "deserted". After the shot cuts to them crossing a bridge it moves to the cabin they are in and Ash playing the piano as his girlfriend dances behind him.
The opening about the Necronomicon Ex Mortis shows that this is going to be a horror film but it dose not show that it is comedy at the same time very well, with only the deliberately cheesy sound effects and the book getting stuck on the screen giving that away, as the iconic scenes (such as the chainsaw hand and Boomstick) don't come till later as it dose not show Ash to be the badass that he will become not that later in the film but shows that he has a close bond with his girfriend, makeing the next scene even more horrible.
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