12 Horror Movie Idiots Who Caused Their Own Doom
6. Don't Touch The Evil Book, Ash - Evil Dead
Ash Williams is well known for his blunders and all-round incompetency in the face of evil, but he's probably the only horror character who has caused problems for doing the exact same thing twice.
Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead follows Ash and his friends, who trek out into the forest and camp out in an abandoned cabin. Stumbling upon the cabin's basement, Ash and his friends find a strange looking book which a nearby tape player calls the Naturom Demonto (Necronomicon Ex-Mortis in the sequel), roughly translated into 'Book of the Dead'. By playing the full tape and not leaving the obviously spooky book alone, Ash and his friends free the sinister Deadites from their slumber who kill all but the S-Mart worker by the end of the film.
Evil Dead II opens up with a brief recap of the first film's plot, but changes a few of the details from the original's story e.g. the group of four from The Evil Dead being trimmed down to just Ash and his girlfriend Linda. However, Raimi once again shows off that all of the demonic possessing and evil let loose in the world is all because Ash couldn't leave that nasty looking book alone.