Army of Darkness
Directed by	Sam Raimi
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis Robert Tapert Bruce Campbell
Written by	Sam Raimi Ivan Raimi
Starring	Bruce Campbell Embeth Davidtz Bridget Fonda Marcus Gilbert
Music by	Joe LoDuca Danny Elfman (March of the Dead)
Editing by	Bob Murawski
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	February 19, 1993
Running time	81 min.
Language	English
Budget	$11,000,000
Gross revenue	$11,502,976
Preceded by	Evil Dead II
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Army of Darkness (also known as Evil Dead III, The Medieval Dead, Bruce Campbell vs. the Army of Darkness, Captain Supermarket (in Japan only) and The Ultimate Experience in Medieval Terror) is an American comedy horror / adventure film, released in 1993. The film is a sequel to The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II. Army of Darkness was directed by Sam Raimi, written by Raimi and his brother Ivan, produced by Rob Tapert, and starring Bruce Campbell once again as protagonist Ash Williams. Despite being a sequel to the two Evil Dead films, it is not as violent or gory. The Army of Darkness The Army of Darkness was a professional wrestling heel stable in Championship Wrestling from Florida in the 1980s. ... A film poster for Army of Darkness, contended as fair use. ... For the American opera singer, see Samuel Ramey. ... Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, (born August 8, 1919) is an Italian movie producer born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. ... Robert Gerard Tapert (born May 14, 1955), sometimes credited as Rob Tapert, Robert G. Tapert, or Rip Tapert, is an American film producer, best known for his co-founding of, and his subsequent work with, the Renaissance Pictures company. ... For the former baseball player of the same name, see Bruce Campbell (baseball). ... For the American opera singer, see Samuel Ramey. ... Ivan Raimi is an American screenwriter and doctor of osteopathic medicine. ... For the former baseball player of the same name, see Bruce Campbell (baseball). ... Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-born South African actress. ... Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-award nominated American actress. ... Marcus Gilbert is an actor, best known for his roles in Jilly Coopers Riders and Army of Darkness. ... Joseph LuDuca, Film composer. ... Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician who led the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer / songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995, and has composed film scores extensively since 1985s Pee-wees Big Adventure. ... (Box Office Spectaculars redirects here) Bob Murawski is the American film editor who often works with film director Sam Raimi (of the Spider-Man and Evil Dead series of films). ... This article is about the American media conglomerate. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... [[Media:Italic text]]{| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Evil Dead II (also known as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn or The Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror) is an American horror film, released in 1987 . ... This is a list of comedy horror films: // 1925 Monster, The 1932 The Old Dark House 1939 The Cat and the Canary 1941 The Smiling Ghost 1944 Zombies on Broadway 1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1953 Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. ... Look up Action film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see The Evil Dead (disambiguation). ... Evil Dead II (also known as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn or The Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror) is an American horror film, released in 1987 . ... For the American opera singer, see Samuel Ramey. ... Ivan Raimi is an American screenwriter and doctor of osteopathic medicine. ... Ropert Tapert (b. ... For the former baseball player of the same name, see Bruce Campbell (baseball). ... Ashley J. Ash Williams (Ashly in the original Evil Dead script) is the fictional protagonist in the Evil Dead horror film franchise, played by Bruce Campbell, and created by director Sam Raimi. ...

The movie had a considerably higher budget than the prior two Evil Dead films. The budget was estimated to be around $11 million; Evil Dead II had a budget of $3.5 million and The Evil Dead a budget of $350,000. At the box office, Army of Darkness was not a big success, only grossing $11,501,093 domestically. After its video release, however, it has obtained an ever-growing cult following, along with the other two films in the trilogy. Evil Dead II (also known as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn or The Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror) is an American horror film, released in 1987 . ... For other uses, see The Evil Dead (disambiguation). ... A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. ...

Plot

The protagonist, Ash, who discovered the Necronomicon ex Mortis^[1], or "Book of the Dead", that unleashed demonic forces in the previous films The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, is sucked into a time vortex with his Oldsmobile, an event caused by reading the spell to defeat the demons. He ends up in a medieval land around 1300 AD ("As near as I can figure"), where he is believed to be the "Hero From The Sky", the man destined to deliver salvation to mankind from the "Deadites", or the undead, as is told at the end of Evil Dead II. The plot, though, alters somewhat between the ending of Evil Dead II and the beginning of Army of Darkness. Ashley J. Ash Williams (Ashly in the original Evil Dead script) is the fictional protagonist in the Evil Dead horror film franchise, played by Bruce Campbell, and created by director Sam Raimi. ... A prop designed to look like the Necronomicon. ... For other uses, see The Evil Dead (disambiguation). ... Evil Dead II (also known as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn or The Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror) is an American horror film, released in 1987 . ... Oldsmobile was a brand of automobile produced for most of its existence by General Motors. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... Evil Dead II (also known as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn or The Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror) is an American horror film, released in 1987 . ... Evil Dead II (also known as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn or The Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror) is an American horror film, released in 1987 . ...

Instead of being praised, Ash is at first believed to be one of Duke Henry's men, a Scottish people at war with the English knights who find him. Ash is enslaved, his gun and chainsaw confiscated, and is taken to a castle. A priest keeps Ash's weapons, believing the "strange one" to be a redeemer, foretold in prophecy to be the one who shall deliver mankind from the terror of the Deadites. Ash is thrown in a pit where he fights off a Deadite, regains his weapons, and uses his "boomstick", a Remington double-barreled shotgun, to frighten the inhabitants of the kingdom into helping him return to his own time. This article is about the Scottish as an ethnic group. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ... Ash Williams holds his boomstick high for inspection (For the diving weapon, see bang stick) Boomstick is a slang term for a gun, usually a 12 gauge, double barrel, sawn-off shotgun. ...

The only way to return to his time and stop the Deadites, according to the priest who gave Ash back his weapons, is to retrieve the Necronomicon - which contains both spells. Ash is supposed to speak a mystical phrase when he takes the Necronomicon ^[2]. While preparing for this, Ash becomes romanticaly involved with a local woman, Sheila. A prop designed to look like the Necronomicon. ... A prop designed to look like the Necronomicon. ...

Ash then journeys for the Necronomicon, along the way passing into a haunted forest. Some unseen creature pursues Ash through the woods, which the camera shows from the creature's point of view. At one point the camera passes between two trees, and a face (or perhaps a mask) appears on the lefthand tree. It is unclear what the face is about, but interviews with Raimi suggest that there is no particular significance to it. A prop designed to look like the Necronomicon. ...

While running from the unseen creature, Ash ducks into a windmill where he crashes into a mirror. The small reflections of Ash climb out from the shattered mirror and torture him. After knocking him unconscious and tying him down, one of the little Ashes dives down his throat. Ash attempts to kill the little Ash by drinking boiling water, but before any effect can be assumed, "Evil Ash" begins to split off from his right shoulder. Ash panicks and runs back out through the woods, where Evil Ash completely splits off of him. Ash shoots Evil Ash in the face, slices him to bits with his chainsaw, and buries him alive. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

When he arrives at the book's location, he sees three books instead of one. After a painful experience with the two fake books, Ash finds the real one. He attempts to say the words, but realizes he forgot them. Ash tries to trick the book by mumbling, but that re-releases the Evil Dead. He grabs the book and rushes back to the castle. During Ash's panicked trek back, Evil Ash rises from his grave and unites the deadites into the Army of Darkness.

Despite causing the predicament faced by the humans, Ash initially demands to be returned to his own time. When Sheila is captured by a flying Deadite, he becomes determined to lead the humans against the Deadite army. Reluctantly, the people agree to join Ash. Using scientific knowledge from the future, from chemistry and engineering books in the trunk of his Oldsmobile, plus enlisting the help of Duke Henry (whom Ash saved after his conflict in the pit), Ash successfully leads the humans to defeat the Deadites and save Sheila. Oldsmobile was a brand of automobile produced for most of its existence by General Motors. ...

Endings

There are two different endings for Army Of Darkness:

• In the U.S. theatrical ending, Ash is sent back to the present, but finds a Deadite terrorizing shoppers at S-Mart, where he works. Ash defeats the Deadite in his classic style, and the film ends with Ash saying, "Hail to the king, baby", and kissing a female co-worker.
• In the Director's Cut and the original European cut, Ash gets distracted and accidentally drinks one too many drops of the sleeping formula, each drop making him sleep for approximately a hundred years. He was instructed to drink only six drops but accidentally drinks seven. Waking up to find himself in a post-apocalyptic England, he screams "I slept too long!" as the screen goes black, and he is heard laughing maniacally before the credits roll.

Production

Plans to make a third Evil Dead film had been circulating for a number of years, even prior to the production of Darkman. Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and The Three Stooges. Evil Dead II, according to Bruce Campbell as quoted in Bill Warren's book, The Evil Dead Companion, "was originally designed to go back into the past to 1300, but we couldn't muster it at the time, so we decided to make an interim version, not knowing if the 1300 story would ever get made." Promotional drawings were created and published in Variety during the casting process before the budget was deemed too little for the plot. The working title for the project was Evil Dead II: Army of Darkness.^[3] The title "Army of Darkness" came from an idea by Irvin Shapiro, during the production of Evil Dead II.^[4] Darkman is a 1990 film film directed by Sam Raimi that was based on a short story he wrote and paying homage to Universal horror films of the 1930s. ... For the American opera singer, see Samuel Ramey. ... A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. ... Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapiers Letters, The Battle of the Books, and... First Edition of Gullivers Travels Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. ... The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a 1958 fantasy movie directed by Nathan Juran, and the first of the Sinbad Trilogy, starring Kerwin Matthews as the durable legendary sailor Sinbad. ... Jason and the Argonauts (1963) is a fictional fantasy adventure movie based upon the characters Jason and the Argonauts of Greek mythology, regarded by many critics as one of the best fantasy films ever made. ... The Three Stooges was an American comedy act in the 20th century. ... Evil Dead II (also known as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn or The Sequel to the Ultimate Experience in Grueling Terror) is an American horror film, released in 1987 . ... For the former baseball player of the same name, see Bruce Campbell (baseball). ... Variety is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. ...

The screenplay was mostly written in 1988. After filming Darkman, Raimi took the script out and worked on it with his brother, Ivan Raimi, who he had enjoyed collaborating with on Darkman and Easy Wheels. Raimi says that Ivan, "has a good sense of character", and that he brought more comedy into the script.^[5] Campbell remembers, "We all decided, 'Get him out of the cabin.' There were earlier drafts where part three still took place there, but we thought, 'Well, we all know that cabin, it's time to move on.' The three of us decided to keep it in 1300, because it's more interesting." Darkman is a 1990 film film directed by Sam Raimi that was based on a short story he wrote and paying homage to Universal horror films of the 1930s. ... Ivan Raimi is an American screenwriter and doctor of osteopathic medicine. ... Darkman is a 1990 film film directed by Sam Raimi that was based on a short story he wrote and paying homage to Universal horror films of the 1930s. ...

Evil Dead II made enough money internationally that Dino De Laurentiis was willing to finance a sequel. Raimi had been disappointed by his dealings with Universal Pictures during the production of Darkman. The initial budget was $8 million USD but during pre-production, it became obvious that this wasn't going to be enough. Darkman was also a financial success and so Universal decided to contribute half of the film's $12 million budget. However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi, and Rob Tapert to put up $1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars. Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, (born August 8, 1919) is an Italian movie producer born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Darkman is a 1990 film film directed by Sam Raimi that was based on a short story he wrote and paying homage to Universal horror films of the 1930s. ... Darkman is a 1990 film film directed by Sam Raimi that was based on a short story he wrote and paying homage to Universal horror films of the 1930s. ... Ropert Tapert (b. ...

Principal photography took place between soundstage and on-location work. Army of Darkness was filmed in Bronson Canyon and Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park. The interior shots were filmed on an Introvision stage in Hollywood. Raimi's use of the Introvision process was a tribute to the stop-motion animation work of Ray Harryhausen. Introvision uses front-projected images with live actors instead of the traditional rear projection that Harryhausen and others used. Introvision blended components with more realistic-looking results. Raimi explained its benefits in an American Cinematographer article: "the incredible amount of interaction between the background, which doesn't exist, and the foreground, which is usually your character." The famous cave opening at Bronson Canyon Bronson Canyon is a location in Griffith Park, California that has become famous as the setting for an astounding number of movies and TV shows filmed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. ... Vasquez Rocks Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 745 acre (3 km²) northern Los Angeles County, California USA park acquired by LA County government in the 1970s. ... Front Projection is an in-camera visual effects process for combining foreground performance with pre-filmed background footage. ... ... Front Projection is an in-camera visual effects process for combining foreground performance with pre-filmed background footage. ... Stop motion is an animation technique which makes things that are static appear to be moving. ... Ray Harryhausen, with creations from Clash of the Titans. ... Front Projection is an in-camera visual effects process for combining foreground performance with pre-filmed background footage. ... Rear projection was devised by Farciot Edouart in 1933 - at the time, he was working for Paramount Studios. ... Front Projection is an in-camera visual effects process for combining foreground performance with pre-filmed background footage. ...

The shooting for Army of Darkness began in mid-1991, and it lasted for about 100 days.^[6] It was a mid-summer shoot and while on location on a huge castle set that was built near Acton, California on the edge of the Mojave Desert, the cast and crew endured very hot conditions during the day and very cold temperatures at night. It was a difficult shoot for Campbell who had to learn elaborate choreography for the battle scenes, which involved him remembering a number system because the actor was often fighting opponents that weren't really there. Mesa remembers in John Kenneth Muir's book, The Unseen Forces: The Films of Sam Raimi, "Bruce was cussing and swearing some of the time because you had to work on the number system. Sam would tell us to make it as complicated and hard for Bruce as possible. 'Make him go through torture!' So we'd come up with these shots that were really, really difficult, and sometimes they would take thirty-seven takes." Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Acton is an unincorporated Census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California near the Antelope Valley. ... For the indigenous American tribe, see Mohave. ...

After the shooting was completed, Army of Darkness' score was composed by Joseph LoDuca, although the theme was composed by Danny Elfman. Joseph LuDuca, Film composer. ... Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician who led the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer / songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995, and has composed film scores extensively since 1985s Pee-wees Big Adventure. ...

Post-production

While Dino De Laurentiis gave Raimi and his crew freedom to shoot the movie the way they wanted, Universal Pictures took over during post-production. Universal was not happy with Raimi's cut because they did not like Raimi's original ending for the movie and felt that it was "depressing". So, a more upbeat ending was shot a month after Army of Darkness was made. It was shot in a lumber store in Malibu, California over three or four nights. Then, two months after Army of Darkness was finished, a round of re-shoots began in Santa Monica and involved Ash in the windmill and the scenes with Bridget Fonda done for very little money. Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, (born August 8, 1919) is an Italian movie producer born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. ... Location of Malibu in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1991-03-28 [2] Government  - Mayor Ken Kearsley [1] Area  - City  100. ... Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica is a coastal city located in Los Angeles County, California USA, by the Pacific Ocean, south of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, west of Westwood, Los Angeles, and north of Venice. ... Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-award nominated American actress. ...

In addition, Raimi needed $3 million to finish his movie, but Universal wasn't willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs. The matter was finally resolved but Army of Darkness' release date had been pushed back from its original summer of 1992 release to February 1993. Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of novels by author Thomas Harris. ... Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944, in Baldwin, New York) is an American film director, producer and writer. ... The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 Academy Award-winning film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. ...

Raimi ran into further troubles with the Motion Picture Association of America over the film's rating. The MPAA gave it an NC-17 rating for a shot of a female Deadite being decapitated early on in the film. Universal, however, wanted a PG-13 rating, so Raimi made a few cuts and was still stuck with the MPAA's R rating. In response, Universal turned the film over to outside film editors who cut Army of Darkness to 81 minutes in length and another version running 87 minutes that was eventually released in theaters. Eventually, Army of Darkness ended up with an R rating. MPAA redirects here. ...

Director's Cut

A Director's Cut exists in various DVD releases. Although not officially Sam Raimi's Director's Cut of the film, it is actually the International Cut of the film that was released around the world. It runs at 93 minutes compared to the theatrical 81 minutes, and includes numerous new scenes and extensions. Among the changes are more violence in the pit, a love scene between Ash and Sheila, an extended windmill scene, different dialogue between Good and Bad Ash, an extended speech on the castle roof and a vastly different ending. A directors cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials or video games, that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... For the American opera singer, see Samuel Ramey. ... A directors cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials or video games, that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit. ...

The theatrical release picks up after Ash has returned to the present, in which he stages one final confrontation with the "she-bitch" in the S-Mart Housewares Department. The alternate ending, which was favored by Raimi and Bruce Campbell, depicts Ash as he sits in his Oldsmobile in a cave, the entrance caved in by some of the black powder he made earlier. As he drinks the magic potion (given to him by a person that may or may not be Merlin - the king's name being "Arthur"), he is distracted by a falling rock and takes one drop too many. Ash sleeps well beyond his time, not aging but growing a very large beard, and shouts "I've slept too long!!" after awakening in a post-apocalyptic England. For the former baseball player of the same name, see Bruce Campbell (baseball). ... Oldsmobile was a brand of automobile produced for most of its existence by General Motors. ... A potion (from Latin potio, potionis, meaning beverage, potion, poison) is a drinkable medicine or poison. ... For other uses, see Merlin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see King Arthur (disambiguation). ... Look up Apocalypse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...

When test audiences didn't approve of Raimi's original cut, he cut the film down to the International cut that now exists on DVD. When it was again rejected by Universal, Raimi was forced to edit it again to the U.S. Theatrical version. The original cut had an opening that was more in tune with the Evil Dead series (included as a deleted scene on Anchor Bay's Director's Cut DVD)^[7]. DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized... For other uses, see The Evil Dead (disambiguation). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A directors cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials or video games, that is supposed to represent the directors own approved edit. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ...

The MGM Hong Kong Region 3 DVD edits together the U.S. Theatrical, European and Director's cuts into a final, 96-minute cut of the film. The film is digitally re-mastered, compiled from original source prints (not from VHS sources as the Anchor Bay Entertainment releases are).^[8] MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... The following is an excerpt of the article entitled DVD. For the sake of convenience, the terms Region 0, Region 1, Region 2, Region 3, Region 4, Region 5, Region 6, Region 7 and Region 8 redirect to this page. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Pop Culture

Army of Darkness has garnered a cult following since its release. Among other things, the one-liners Ash speaks are often quoted by fans, and have made their way into other media. For example, in the PC game Duke Nukem 3D, the title character Duke Nukem has several direct quotes from the movie throughout the game, such as "Hail to the king, baby!", and is also reportedly inspired (at least partially) by the character of Ash. Campbell did not entirely approve according to interviews on the subject. ^[9] Also in the alternate, acoustic version of Coheed and Cambria's song "Junesong Provision" the phrase, "All right you primitive screwheads, listen up! See this? This...is my boomstick!" is used during the intro. The Finnish rock band Lordi has a song entitled "The Deadite Girls Gone Wild,"which may or may not be a reference to the film. Also, the video for "Blood Red Sandman" appears to be a deliberate Evil Dead reference. The popular internet writer, Maddox, had a tribute on his site to this movie Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and published by Apogee Software. ... George Ouzounian,[1] better known by his screen name Maddox, is an American writer, humorist, satirist and magazine columnist of Armenian descent, who rose to prominence through the success of his satirical rant website named The Best Page in the Universe. ...

The Stiletto Formal named their second EP "This Is My Boomstick" after the line from the film. The Stiletto Formal is a self-proclaimed eccentric rock and roll band from Phoenix, Arizona, and are one of the few rock bands featuring a cello and other exotic instruments and effects as an integral part of their sound. ... This Is My Boomstick is The Stiletto Formals sophmore release, it was released in early 2006. ...

In the acoustic demo of the song 'Junesong Provision' by Coheed and Cambria contains a sound clip from the movie when Ash says "This is my BOOMSTICK!"

Also in True Crime: Streets of LA, Nick Kang yells the infamous line when a shotgun is equipped,"You see this?! This... is MY BOOMSTICK!!" True Crime: Streets of LA Categories: Computer and video game stubs | 2003 computer and video games | PlayStation 2 games | Xbox games | GameCube games | Activision games | Windows games ...

Comics

Main article: Army of Darkness (comics)

Army of Darkness has had several comics adaptations made of it. Cover of Army of Darkness film adaptation issue #1, by John Bolton Army of Darkness comics are based on the film of the same name published originally by Dark Horse Comics with the license being picked up Dynamite Entertainment who initially published them through Devils Due Publishing. ... Cover of Army of Darkness film adaptation issue #1, by John Bolton Army of Darkness comics are based on the film of the same name published originally by Dark Horse Comics with the license being picked up Dynamite Entertainment who initially published them through Devils Due Publishing. ...

• Army of Darkness (movie adaptation)
• Army of Darkness: Ashes 2 Ashes
• Army of Darkness: Shop Till You Drop Dead
• Darkman vs. Army of Darkness
• Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator
• Army of Darkness: Old School
• Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness
• Army of Darkness: From the Ashes

Ashes 2 Ashes is the Army of Darkness sequel in comic form. ... Plot Published by Dark Horse, Army of Darkness: Shop Till You Drop Dead is a 4-part comic book spinoff, continuing the comic book saga of the Evil Dead series. ... Cover of Army of Darkness film adaptation issue #1, by John Bolton Army of Darkness comics are based on the film of the same name published originally by Dark Horse Comics with the license being picked up Dynamite Entertainment who publish them through Devils Due Publishing. ... Cover of Army of Darkness film adaptation issue #1, by John Bolton Army of Darkness comics are based on the film of the same name published originally by Dark Horse Comics with the license being picked up Dynamite Entertainment who initially published them through Devils Due Publishing. ... Marvel Zombies vs. ...

References

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Bibliography

• The Evil Dead Companion, Bill Warren. ISBN 0-312-27501-3
• If Chins Could Kill, Bruce Campbell. ISBN 0-312-29145-0

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• Army of Darkness at the Internet Movie Database
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• Army of Darkness RPG from Eden Studios.