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(US) Introvision International Renaissance Pictures
(US) Universal Pictures
Plot Summary:
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.
Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with ... molecular structures.
Sheila
But what of all those sweet words you spoke in private?
Ash
Oh that's just what we call pillow talk, baby, that's all.
[Sheila wants to apologize to Ash]
Ash
First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow.
Ash
See this? This is my boom stick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?
Trivia:
Ted Raimi plays the S-Mart store clerk at the end of the movie.
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.
In accordance with his usual style, the skeletons do a classic Three Stooges routine.
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."
As various missiles such as catapult loads and arrows fly through the air, we see their targets from the missile's viewpoint, a type of shot that director Sam Raimi uses quite a bit.
Credits Fun:
In the opening credits, Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness instead of "in".
DVD Easter Eggs: (Hidden So You Don't See Anything You Don't Want To See)
To turn the story boards on while the movie is playing, turn the directors commentary on in the options menu and while the movie is playing turn subtitles on and the storyboards will appear in the bottom right corner.
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