Evill Dead III : Army of Darkness

Evil Dead III : Army of Darkness - fight against the army of Evil Dead

Evill Dead III : Army of Darkness is the second film of Sam Raimi after the success of the initial film “Evil Dead” (Sam Raimi 1981) and it’s the third and final part of Evil Dead trilogy. The film Army of Darkness not only has elements of horror genre but also has elements of comedy and comic books. The screenplay of “Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness” was written by Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan Raimi, the film was produced by Robert Tapert and the main actor of the Evil Dead trilogy Bruce Campbell.

If we want to describe the film “Evil Dead III : Army of Darkness” using few words I can say that the film is about the adventure of William Ash who is trapped in the Middle ages and fights the undead and his desire and need is to return back to his time.           

The plot structure of Evil Dead III : The Army of Darkness

The main character of Evill Dead films Ash Williams has been pulled through a time gate and as he travels in time he lands in England at 1300 AD. Ash is captured by Lord Arthur’s soldiers, who believe that Ash is a spy in disguise. A spy of Duke Henry with whom Artur is at war.

Ash with Henry are taken prisoners to Arthur’s castle. Arthur throws Ash into a pit to fight a deadite. Ash wins the deadite and Artrhur’s Wise Man returns to Ash his weapons (gun and a chainsaw). Ash as a winner of the fight against the Deadite demands the freedom of Henry and the freedom of Henry’s men. Ash is a hero and he is celebrated by the the happy crowd. Ash has attracted the interest of Sheila a sister of a fallen knight who served Lord Arthur.

Ash wants to return back to his time and according to wise man there is only one way Ash can travel in time and return to his time. The Necronomicon way. Ash has to regain the Necronomicon ex - mortis. Ash says goodbye to Sheila and he starts searching for the Necronomicon.  Ash says goodbye to Sheila and he starts his adventure into the unknown. Ash walks into a Dark and Haunted forest. Then an invisible, unseen and unconquerable force pushes Ash through the woods. He finds a windmill where Ash crashes into a mirror. Then a mirror idol of Ash climbs out from the mirror and torment him. Then are other reflection from the mirror and one of them uses Ash’s body and it becomes a full human size duplicate of Ash and attacks to him. Ash fights hard kills the duplicate and burns the dead body of duplicate.

Ash finds his way to Necronomicon and arrives at Necronomicons location. There is a great surprise from Ash. There are three books not just one. One of them is the original and the other two are copies. The question is which is the original book. Ash uses his intelligence to discover the original Necronomicon book and he recognizes it, but there is also another one obstacle, he needs to say an Ancient magic phase to be allowed by the dark forces to carry the book with him . The phase is “Klaatu Venetta Nicto”. Unfortunately for him has forgotten the last world of the phase. He tries to trick the book by mumbling the last word. He grabs the book and as an idiot, runs to the castle. At the same time dead rises from the graves all around, and among them is also the evil duplicate of Ash who unites into the “Army of Darkness”.

Ash demands to return back to his time but at the same time Sheila is captured by a flying Deadite and she is transformed into a Deadite. Ash agrees to help people to fight the Army of Darkness. Ash uses same scientific textbooks left in his car’s trunk and builds homemade weapons to fight against the wrath of dead. Ash succesfully leads the people in the battle against the Army of Darkness (evil dead). After the victory against the Evil Dead, Sheila is re - transforms back into a normal human being. Ash promotes peace between Arthur and Henry.

Finally, Ash with the help of Necronomicon returns back to his time. Ash narrates his adventure and his travel in time to a worker of S - market store, meanwhile a female client is possessed and transforms into a deadly creature. A chaotic nightmare begins inside the S - market store and Ash kills the creature.    

You can see the trailer of the film “Evil Dead III : Army of Darkness ” on youtube

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Resources 

Army of Darkness - Wikipedia 

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