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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Sam Raimi
Writers (WGA):
Sam Raimi (written by) &
Ivan Raimi (written by)
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Release Date:
19 February 1993 (USA) more
Tagline:
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas more
Plot:
A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 3 nominations more
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(85 articles)
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 (From Screen Rant. 6 November 2009, 3:13 PM, PST)

User Comments:
81 minutes of pure fun! more (532 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bruce Campbell ... Ash

Embeth Davidtz ... Sheila
Marcus Gilbert ... Lord Arthur

Ian Abercrombie ... Wiseman

Richard Grove ... Duke Henry the Red
Timothy Patrick Quill ... Blacksmith
Michael Earl Reid ... Gold Tooth

Bridget Fonda ... Linda

Patricia Tallman ... Possessed Witch

Ted Raimi ... Cowardly Warrior / Second Supportive Villager / S-Mart Clerk (as Theodore Raimi)

Deke Anderson ... Mini-Ash #2

Bruce Thomas ... Mini-Ash #3
Sara Shearer ... Old Woman
Shiva Gordon ... Pit Deadite #1
Billy Bryan ... Pit Bitch
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Army of Darkness: The Medieval Dead (UK) (video title)
Army of Darkness: The Ultimate Experience in Medieval Horror (USA) (closing credits title)
Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness (USA) (closing credits title)
Evil Dead 3 (USA) (working title)
The Army of Darkness (USA) (original script title)
The Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness (UK) (DVD box title)
The Medieval Dead (USA) (working title)
L'armée des ténèbres (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
A sötétség serege (Hungary) [hu]
Armáda temnot (Czech Republic) [cs]
Armee der Finsternis (Germany) [de]
Armia ciemnosci (Poland) [pl]
Armija mraka (Serbia) (video title) [sr]
Army of Darkness: Evil Dead III (Sweden) [sv]
El ejército de las tinieblas (Spain) [es]
Evil dead 3 - L'armée des ténèbres (France) (DVD box title) [fr]
Kyaputien supamaketto: Shiryo no harawata III (Japan) [ja]
L'armée des ténèbres - Evil dead III (France) [fr]
L'armata delle tenebre (Italy) [it]
O Exército das Trevas (Portugal) [pt]
O stratos tou skotous (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Pimeyden armeija (Finland) [fi]
Tanz der Teufel III: Armee der Finsternis (Germany) [de]
Uma Noite Alucinante 3 (Brazil) [pt]
Vojska tame (Croatia) [hr]
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence and horror.
Runtime:
81 min | 96 min (director's cut)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Filming Locations:
Acton, California, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Cameo: [William Lustig](director of Maniac (1980), Uncle Sam (1997), Maniac Cop (1988)) makes an appearance as a "fake Shemp". more
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Crew or equipment visible: At the beginning of the movie when Ash is being sucked into the portal, the cable that he is suspended from while spinning is visible. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
[opening monologue]
Ash: My name is Ash and I am a slave. As far as I can figure, the year is thirteen hundred A.D and I'm being dragged to my death. It wasn't always like this, I had a real life, once. A job.
Ash: [now Ash is in a flashback] Umm... Hardware aisle twelve, shop smart, shop S-Mart!
Ash: [back to monologue] I had a wonderful girlfriend Linda. Together we drove to a small cabin in the mountains. It seems an archeologist had come to this remote place to translate and study his latest find: Necronomiconexmortis. The Book of the Dead. Bound in human flesh and inked in blood, this ancient Samarian text contained bizarre burial rights, funeral incantations, and demon resurrection passages, it was never meant for the world of the living. The book awoke something dark in the woods, something evil.
[something crashes through the window of the cabin and Linda screams]
Ash: It took Linda. Then it came after me, it got into my hand and it went bad, so I lopped it off at the wrist.
[Ash is seen cutting off his hand]
Ash: But that didn't stop it, it came back big time.
Ash: [Ash gets pulled into the vortex holding onto the doorway] For God's sake how do you stop it?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Simpsons: Mypods and Boomsticks (#20.7)" (2008) more
Soundtrack:
March Of The Dead more

FAQ

Why is it officially titled "Army of Darkness" rather than "Evil Dead III" like the previous installments?
What happened to Linda? Ash has a different love interest in this film.
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25 out of 29 people found the following comment useful.
81 minutes of pure fun!, 28 March 2006
10/10
Author: S.R. Dipaling from Topeka, Kansas, USA

The third--and presumably last--of the Evil Dead movies finds Ash Williams(B-movie supreme ruler Bruce Campbell in full froth)somehow transported(along with his broken down car)in Medieval England,about to do battle,once again,with the undead,with the aid of(among other things) his "boom stick" and his chainsaw. While being a strange man in a strange land,he romances plucky lass Sheila(Embeth Davitz,pre-Schindler's List) and aiding the reluctant natives(among them Ian Abercrombie,MArcus Gilbert and Richard Groce).

To me(and I suspect I am not alone on this),one of the neat things about this film is that it moves at such a rip-roaring pace that one has little time to catch their breath or even add up the absurdity of the story. But,to quote another commenter,Who cares? This offering,which pretty much eschews the original Evil Dead's Horror premise,and capitalizes on more of the crazed,feverish pacing of Evil Dead 2,seems content to offer large doses of humor mixed with raucous violence and only the thinnest character exposition. Bully for director/co-writer Sam Raimi,co-writer Ivan Raimi and company on this! This is a great "palate-cleanser" of a movie and is a solid party film(among other occasions),whether you're fans of Campbell,Raimi,berserker action films,comedies or all four.

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