10 Everyday Objects Horror Movies RUINED For You

With Evil Dead Burn set to serve up a fresh helping of grim in a couple of months, it pays to look backward in expectation of what’s coming. And where better than Fede Álvarez’s Evil Dead, the film that lifted the franchise away from its comedy roots and dropped it into the super gory modern horror scene.

Jane Levy plays Mia Allen, a young woman with a heroin addiction who has been taken out to a remote cabin in the woods by her brother David (Shiloh Fernandez) and friends to try and get her clean. But after they discover the Naturom Demento, a book used for summoning the dead, all hell breaks loose – literally.

David’s girlfriend Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore) is not the first to come under the curse of the book, but her initial run in with this evil is one of the film’s most indelible images. Bitten by a possessed Mia, the evil spreads through Natalie hand and up her arm like an infection, and faced with being turned into a Deadite in Mia’s image, Natalie can see only one option: the electric carving knife.

She attempts to amputate her arm single-handedly, cutting through skin and bone, until… the power shorts and she is left with a semi-attached limb and a full-blown evil dead infection. Although the electric carving knife was already something of a relic, Evil Dead has definitely not helped sales in recent years.