Evil Dead is a four-part series that started in 1981 and also includes the movie Army of Darkness. The main character, Ash, continues to find himself fighting the undead. In the second movie, Evil Dead II "Dead by Dawn", Ash and his girlfriend decide to take a vacation to a secluded cabin in the woods. While in the cabin, he finds and plays a tape of an archaeologist, the cabin's previous inhabitant, reciting passages from the "Book of the Dead". The recorded incantation unleashes an evil force that possesses people and turns them into "deadites".