As the night progresses, Mike and Jessica tryst at a guest cabin, where she is abducted by an unseen figure. Mike's pursuit of her attacker leads him to an abandoned sanatorium, which contains information about a 1952 cave-in on the mountain that trapped a group of miners. Mike will either find Jessica dead or alive, but the elevator she is found in will fall, convincing Mike she is dead. Meanwhile, Josh, Ashley, Chris, and Sam find themselves terrorized by a masked man in the lodge. Josh is bisected in a torture device set up by the masked man, who then pursues Sam through the building's lower levels. The masked man's torment of the friends culminates with Chris being ordered to shoot Ashley or himself under the threat of them both being killed by giant saw blades. Matt and Emily, having been alerted to the masked man's presence, discover that the cable car has been locked; instead, the two head to a radio tower to request help. The request is successfully received, but the responder states that the group will not be rescued until dawn due to a storm. An unknown creature causes the radio tower to collapse into the mines, separating Matt and Emily. Looking for a way out, Emily stumbles upon the location where Beth and Hannah fell, with Beth's severed head located nearby. She later is chased by the creature on her way out of the mines.
In Evil Dead Rise, after the chaos that was unleashed by the Necronomicon, the only surviving members were a young girl named Kassie and her aunt, Beth. As they tried to escape their floor, the remaining corpses in the hall awakened as Kassie's mother, Ellie, now a Deadite, taunted Beth saying that they would be dead by dawn. From there, all the corpses, now Deadites, taunted the duo by chanting "dead by dawn," until they escaped through the elevator.
In Evil Dead 2, a similarly taunting moment happened between Ash and the other survivors when they faced two Deadites in the cabin. Towards the movie's conclusion, the Deadites spoke of how their awakening meant that no one would survive, and they would take over, chanting "dead by dawn." Similar to Evil Dead Rise, the chant was used as a method of mental torture, but Evil Dead 2 was also released under the subtitle Dead By Dawn.
Aside from the obvious torture of repetition, the phrase "dead by dawn" in the Evil Dead franchise has a significant meaning to the chaos that comes with awakening the Necronomicon. For every entry, save for how the original connects to the second, most of the pandemonium took place in the span of the night. However, because of the circumstances of the survivors, every minute felt like an eternity. To make matters worse, seeing the Sun again was often the one thing that those stuck facing The Evil wanted to see. Therefore, to be told they'd be dead by dawn would be the last thing anyone would want to hear.
Evil Dead Rise represented a new age for the Evil Dead franchise and in doing so, ensured it never forgot its roots. Dead by dawn may not be the most obvious reference to the past. That said, it's one that's timeless because it's always uttered at a time when no one wants to be reminded of the low odds of survival. As a result, while it may carry a degree of camp, it's always scary because as long as someone reads from the Necronomicon, there's always a risk that whoever is caught in the crossfire could be dead by dawn.
The heavily outnumbered militiamen had just been ordered by their commander to disperse when a shot rang out. To this day, no one knows which side fired first. Several British volleys were subsequently unleashed before order could be restored. When the smoke cleared, eight militiamen lay dead and nine were wounded, while only one Redcoat was injured.
It all happened shortly before dawn on Sunday morning. Multiple emergency units responded to a two-car crash along Route 40 in Farmington, just down the hill from the popular Nemacolin Resort. The two cars carrying a total of nine people were completely totaled.
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