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(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.
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.
Ash
Gimme some sugar, baby.
Ash
Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with ... molecular structures.
[Sheila wants to apologize to Ash]
Ash
First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow.
Ash
It's a trick. Get an axe.
Trivia:
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 The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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."
All European editions of the movie have the original ending (Ash oversleeping and waking up in a destroyed world.) The US "supermarket battle" ending used to be virtually unknown in Europe for a long time.
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.
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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