Army of Darkness (1992)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror

Limited Edition Director's Cut:

Tagline: Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
Tagline: How can you destroy an army that’s already dead?

Listen up, you primitive screwheads! At long last, here lies the closest thing to an official Director’s Cut of Army Of Darkness that you’ll ever find. Personally, I think there is always merit in any version of a film that preserves what the makers intended. So, for your consideration, we submit the real film, complete with the original ending, which I think is far more appropriate.

On behalf of Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, I’d like to thank all of you fans (you know who you are) for your loyal support of this ridiculous series of films – you are directly responsible for the demand to make this version available. May you revel in 96 minutes of excess and may you never, ever run out of sugar…baby!

Trivia:
• An issue of the magazine "Fangoria" can be seen in the car's trunk.
• The magic words Ash must use to claim the Book of the Dead are "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto", the same words used to command the robot Gort in Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951).
• Director Sam Raimi shot two different endings. One ending has Ash battling a she-demon in a department store in the present. The alternative ending has Ash imbibing a secret potion that would make him sleep one century for each drop of the potion he drinks. He then goes to a cave to sleep. However, he drank one drop too many and wakes up to find a barren post-apocalyptic landscape. The final shot is Ash screaming in rage at a red sky. The Great Britain video version shows the "potion" ending, and the version shown in U.S. theaters showed the "she-demon" ending.
• Cameo: [Bridget Fonda] Linda
• Cameo: [Ted Raimi] The S-Mart store clerk at the end of the movie.
• Cameo: [Ted Raimi] Wearing a mustache, tells Ash "You can count on my steel."
• Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] [shemp] Don Campbell (I) and 'Campbell, Charlie' , father and brother of Bruce Campbell (I).
• Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] [3-stooges] The skeletons do a classic routine.
• Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] [pov shot] As various missiles such as catapult loads and arrows fly through the air, we see their targets from the missile's viewpoint.
• That beat-up Olds that goes through time with Ash belongs to director Sam Raimi . He included it in most of his early movies, each time more banged up than the last. The items in the trunk of the Olds are not product placements; they're what Sam Raimi actually had in his trunk.
• Director Cameo: [William Lustig] ("Maniac", "Uncle Sam", "Maniac Cop") makes an appearance as a "fake shemp".
• Movie was originally given a NC-17 rating.
• The "S-Mart" ending was seen on the movie's original theatrical run in the UK, but the original, better ending (Ash oversleeping and waking up in a destroyed world) was used for the video release.
• Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] [3-stooges] When Ash calls Wiseman Joe "spinach chin," it is a reference to the 1949 Three Stooges short "Malice in the Palace." In it, Moe calls a man with a long beard "spinach chin."

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