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elcome to the second edition of my Army of Darkness page.
My name is Robin Calvin and I am a real fan of Bruce Campbell and his movies.
Since Army of Darkness happens to be my all-time favourite movie, it was quite
natural for me to create my own webpage about it. When my first AOD-page opened
in October 1996, I recieved a lot of ecouraging E-mail from AOD-fans from all
over the world. Since then I have put down much time and effort in the
creation of this second edition of the page, which now has grown to a whole
archive. Enjoy!
So, what is this "Army of Darkness" all about?
rmy of Darkness is the third and last part in a series of horror-movies
by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell as the hero Ash, a quite ordinary
guy who works as a clerk in a mall called "S-Mart". Ash gets sucked
into a tornado and ends up in medieval England, equipped only with a
shotgun and a chainsaw. There he must retrieve an unholy book from
an ancient graveyard in order to create a passage back to his own
time. Unfortunately he fails to pronounce the spell that unlocks
the curse over the book, which results in the awakening of an
army of undead warriors...
rmy of Darkness isn't exactly the typical horror-movie, since it
contains lots of "Monty Python"-like humour and other bizarre
scenes you don't expect from an ordinary horror-movie.
Different versions
here are two different versions of the movie. The original version had
an unhappy ending that was edited out and replaced before the movie
went up in movie-theatres in the United States. In the middle of
the movie, after Ash just has shot his evil counterpart, he says
"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun", but in some versions
of the re-edited release-version, he says "I ain't that good".
've read that the original version is available on video in Great
Britain, and on Laser-disc in Japan. I'd sure like to get my hand
on a copy of one of those, because I only own the European release version,
although I've seen the original ending once on a bootleg copy of the
original version that had a really lousy picture-quality.
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