During the close of Evil Dead 2, a spell ritual from the Necronomicon was used to banish the ravenous evil presence that had taken control of the woods. Unfortunately, Ash was drawn into the portal as well and deposited, along with shotgun, chainsaw and his car, in a medieval age largely unsympathetic to Ash’s past heroic deeds and subsequent plight. Here, the same noxious evil essence runs rampart over a much larger territory, oppressing Lord Arthur and all his subjects. Ash learns that the Necronomicon contains the means not only to neutralize the evil again but to send him back to his own time, provided of course that he dodges his vengeful doppelganger Evil Ash and remembers the magic words before he lifts the true book---one among two other demonic counterfeits---from its cradle.