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It was a difficult shoot for Campbell who had to learn elaborate choreography for the battle scenes, which involved him remembering a number system because the actor was often fighting opponents that were not really there.

Mesa remembers, " Bruce was cussing and swearing some of the time because you had to work on the number system.

Sam would tell us to make it as complicated and hard for Bruce as possible.

' Make him go through torture!

' So we'd come up with these shots that were really, really difficult, and sometimes they would take thirty-seven takes ".

Some scenes, like Evil Ash walking along the graveyard while his skeleton minions come to life, blended stop-motion animation with live skeletons that were mechanically rigged, with prosthetics and visual effects.