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Army of Darkness (1992)

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• 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 "Clatto Verata Nicto" - a reference to "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto", the words used to command the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
  
  
• Cameo: [Bridget Fonda] As Linda.
  
  

• Cameo: [Ted Raimi] at least four characters: The cowardly warrior who doesn't want to die, the man who shouts "you can count on my steel", the swordsman with an eye-patch and the S-mart's store clerk.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] [shemp] Don Campbell and Charlie Campbell, father and brother of Bruce Campbell.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] [3-stooges] The skeletons do a classic routine.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] [3-stooges] When Ash calls Wiseman Joe "spinach chin," it's a reference to the classic Three Stooges short Malice in the Palace (1949), in which Moe Howard calls a man with a long beard "spinach chin."
  
  
• 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 Oldsmobile 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 Raimi actually had in his trunk.
  
  
• Cameo: [William Lustig] (director of Maniac (1980), Uncle Sam (1997), Maniac Cop (1988)) makes an appearance as a "fake Shemp".
  
  
• The movie actually has two different endings, both of which are available on certain DVD editions. In the original ending Ash miscounts the drops of sleeping potion, and wakes up 100 years later than intended, in a world devastated by nuclear war. The more heroic S-Mart ending was filmed after the original ending was deemed too depressing.
  
  
• There is an alternate version where a Deadite holds the severed head of the Cowardly Warrior (Ted Raimi). This character was scared and didn't want to die.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Sam Raimi] [chainsaw] Ash uses a chainsaw attached to his arm to fight the Deadites.
  
  
• Bruce Campbell says that in order to make it appear that the chainsaw was always running, tobacco smoke was pumped through a tube that was slid up his right pant leg, up his shirt, and into the chainsaw.
  
  
• In the original draft, Ash (Bruce Campbell) lost an eye.
  
  
• The original script was 43 pages.
  
  
• The famous "boomstick" line has been quoted several times, including a direct sample on Coheed and Cambria's acoustic version of their song, "Junesong Provision". Scott Brown built an entire hardcore song around Army of Darkness samples, centrepiecing the "boomstick" line, appropriately titled 'Boomstick'.
  
  
• On the posters released for the movie, Music credit goes to Joe LoDuca, but is misspelled as Joe DoLuca.
  
  
• During the final battle between the Deadites and Ash's men, one of the Deadites lets out a war cry that is almost identical to that of "Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995) -- a series in which Ted Raimi and Bruce Campbell both featured in, and was also produced by Sam Raimi.
  
  

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