Army of darkness was my first introduction to the weird and wonderful evil dead universe. Army of darkness 610 movie clip three necronomicons. Armed only with a shotgun, his high school chemistry textbook, and a chainsaw that mounts where his missing appendage once resided, the squarejawed, brutally competent ash quickly establishes. With bruce campbell, embeth davidtz, marcus gilbert, ian abercrombie. In 2016, space goat publishing released evil dead 2. Defense game picks up from the pivotal castle defense scene within the movie where ash, and his allies defend the powerful necronomicon book within lord arthurs fortress from the onslaught of deadites living dead. Army of darkness 610 movie clip three necronomicons 1992 hd duration. Lobo and the dc dead evil dead army of darkness fanfilm duration. Why ash vs evil dead pretends army of darkness never. Following the box office failure of the army of darkness film in 1993, any continuation of the evil dead franchise in a liveaction format was put on hold by its original creators at renaissance pictures. I remember watching it on late night cable once, unaware that it was the third installment of a horror. The third in director sam raimis stylish, comic book like horror trilogy that began with the evil dead 1982, this tongueincheek sequel offers equal parts swordandsorcerystyle action, gore. Evil dead 2 was where they went back to the cabin with more money and effects and started to play with the horror genre. This was by no means the last appearance of the character of ash williams, who would go on to thrive in multiple nonlive action formats, including officially licensed comic books.
The book of the dead in a screehshot from army of darkness book replica by tonyantrock it is unknown what happened to this book once shooting on army of darkness wrapped, it isnt in tom sullivans evil dead museum as the other two books are. Dark horse comics dynamite entertainment space goat productions. Army of darkness 710 movie clip the rise of skeletons. Once again it starred bruce campbell as ash and was directed by sam raimi. Starring campbell and embeth davidtz, it is the third installment in the evil dead franchise, and a sequel to evil dead ii, and. Army of darkness was the third film in the evil dead series. Evil dead 2 army of darkness book of the dead prop. Though it is now commonplace for different cuts of films to be released on home video, often as a marketing gimmick, at the time of army of darkness release it was much rarer, and usually just the result of reediting by foreign distributors. Army of darkness comics are based on the film of the same name published originally by dark horse comics, and later by dynamite entertainment who initially published them through devils due publishing. This boxset also comes with some interesting new extras on the fourth disc, a couple of which can only be found in this release, although relating primarily to the evil dead as opposed to army of darkness.
Other prominent early examples of films existing in different versions include blade runner and dawn of the dead. Army of darkness and marketed as such on some home releases is a 1992 american comedy horror film directed and cowritten by sam raimi, coproduced by robert tapert and bruce campbell and cowritten by ivan raimi. The first evil dead was a school movie project turned into reality about a haunted cabin using a shoestring budget. Disc 3 is identical to the army of darkness directors cut disc in the 2002 r2 uk anchor bay double dvd set, but with different packaging. This was hand painted and has perma wet flex gloss for a shine. This was made by end of summer prod limited masks and props signed by artist on side of drawer. See the complete army of darkness series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles.