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• How does Ellie become possessed in Evil Dead Rise?▾

  After an earthquake cracks open a sealed vault beneath the apartment building's parking garage, Ellie's son Danny retrieves a vinyl record and a copy of the Naturom Demonto — the Necronomicon — from inside. Danny plays the record, which contains a priest's recitation of passages from the book, inadvertently summoning the Kandarian demon. The demon enters Ellie through the building's elevator shaft while she is standing near it.

• What is the significance of the book and records Danny finds in the vault?▾

  The vault was sealed by a priest named Father Sullivan in the 1920s after he discovered the Necronomicon and recorded himself reading its incantations onto vinyl as a warning or experiment. The book is a version of the Naturom Demonto, the same evil text seen throughout the Evil Dead franchise, which contains the rites capable of raising the Deadites. By playing the records aloud, Danny effectively performs the ritual himself without realising it.

• Why can't the survivors simply leave the apartment building?▾

  The earthquake that opened the vault also destroys the building's stairwell, collapsing the main exit route and trapping the residents on the upper floors. The elevator becomes unusable and unreliable once Ellie is possessed, and the demon-controlled Ellie actively blocks and hunts the survivors, preventing any organised escape attempt until the very end of the film.

• What happens to Ellie's children during the film?▾

  Danny is killed and possessed after prolonged exposure to the Necronomicon and the demon's influence. Bridget is infected when possessed-Ellie bites her, and she subsequently turns, becoming one of the Deadites threatening her sister Kassie. Only young Kassie survives, ultimately escaping with her aunt Beth after Beth kills the merged Deadite form of Ellie in the basement.

• What is the "marionette" form that Ellie takes near the film's climax?▾

  Near the end of the film, possessed-Ellie is apparently killed by the chainsaw, but the Kandarian demon is not destroyed — it merges the remains of Ellie, Danny, and Bridget into a single grotesque fused creature that pursues Beth and Kassie to the garage. This amalgamated form is a visual callback to the franchise's tradition of escalating body-horror transformations and represents the demon consolidating its power into one monstrous host. Beth ultimately destroys it by feeding it into an industrial wood chipper.