* Ash Williams, the main protagonist from the Evil Dead series

Army of Darkness, also titled Bruce Campbell vs Army of Darkness, Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness or just Evil Dead III, is a 1992 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi.

It is the third and final installment in The Evil Dead trilogy.

Continuing from Evil Dead II, Ash Williams is trapped in the Middle Ages and battles the undead in his quest to return to the present.

Plans to make a third Evil Dead film had been circulating for a number of years, even prior to the production of Darkman.

Evil Dead II made enough money internationally that Dino De Laurentiis was willing to finance a sequel.

Evil Dead II, according to Bruce Campbell, " was originally designed to go back into the past to 1300, but we couldn't muster it at the time, so we decided to make an interim version, not knowing if the 1300 story would ever get made ".

The working title for the project was Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness.

The title " Army of Darkness " came from an idea by Irvin Shapiro, during the production of Evil Dead II.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

After the re-shoots were completed, Joseph LoDuca, who composed the music for The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, returned to score the the film.

The film currently holds a 71 % " Fresh " rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 38 reviews, which made its critical reception above average but is much lower than The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, which received 100 % and 98 % critical approval, respectively.

Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, " The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as Evil Dead II, however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled ".

* The Evil Dead Companion, Bill Warren.

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It then received distribution in the U. S., spawning two sequels: Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness.

When the game design phase began in late 1992, the main thematic influences were the science fiction action film Aliens and the horror film Evil Dead II.

The game contains several humorous references to pop culture, like some of Duke's lines that are drawn from movies like Aliens, Dirty Harry, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, and They Live ; the mutated women begging " Kill me " are also a reference to the latter.

The film has spawned two sequels, Evil Dead II ( 1987 ) and Army of Darkness ( 1992 ), and a stage musical.

Evil Dead II ( referred to in publicity materials as Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn ) is a 1987 American horror comedy film directed by Sam Raimi.

Most of these films had been comedies, and Spiegel felt that Evil Dead II should be less straight horror than the first.

Steven Spielberg had previously filmed The Color Purple in Wadesboro, and the large white farmhouse used as an exterior location in that film became the production office for Evil Dead II.

Ted, director Sam's younger brother, had been involved in the first film briefly, acting as a fake Shemp, but in Evil Dead II he gets the larger role of the historian's demon-possessed wife, Henrietta.

Evil Dead II opened on March 13, 1987 to a weekend gross of $ 807, 260.

Evil Dead II holds a 98 % approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, slightly less than The Evil Dead, which holds a 100 % rating.

In 2008, Empire magazine included Evil Dead II on their list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, ranked # 49.

Evil Dead II DVD, audio commentary.

Campbell and Raimi collaborated on a 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead film, titled Within the Woods, which was initially used to attract investors.

Campbell voiced the pulp adventurer Lobster Johnson in Hellboy: The Science of Evil and has done voice-over work for the Codemaster's game Hei $ t, a game which was announced on the 28 January 2010 to have been " terminated ".

Evil had a purpose, to provide a lesson to help change for good ; while suffering from evil was seen as virtuous.

A 2002 adaptation of its Resident Evil series faced similar criticism but was also successful in theaters.

Capcom was also criticized by Mega Man fans and gaming sites for cancelling Mega Man Legends 3 and Mega Man Universe, for releasing Mega Man X and the upcoming Rockman XOver ( Mega Man XOver ) for iOS devices, and their handing of the development of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City to Slant Six Games and the upcoming DmC: Devil May Cry to Ninja Theory.

In 1920 Smith composed a celebrated long poem in blank verse, The Hashish Eater, or The Apocalypse of Evil which was published in Ebony and Crystal ( 1922 ).

His long poem The Hashish-Eater ; Or, the Apocalypse of Evil was written in 1920.

Paul Abbott was a story editor on the programme in the 1980s and began writing episodes in 1989, but left in 1993 to produce Cracker, for which he later wrote, before creating his own highly acclaimed dramas such as Touching Evil and Shameless.

* Wang the Perverted from the film Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders ( or as he's known for most of the film, " Evil Presence ") was brought back from the dead with many cybernetic body parts including a hand that spontaneously flips the bird due to a malfunction

The short film Within the Woods ( 1978 ) was made as a prototype to help convince possible investors to fund The Evil Dead.

' According to the Evil Dead DVD commentary, he would often return home after a night of shooting in the back of a pick-up truck, as he was usually covered in fake blood made from a mixture of corn syrup, food coloring, and non-dairy coffee creamer.

The film was re-released in March 2010 as part of The Evil Dead Cross Country Tour, which began in the NuArt Theatre in West Los Angeles.

In Finland, The Evil Dead was later released uncut on DVD by Future Film, and rated K-18.

On July 13, 2011 it was announced that The Evil Dead was being remade and it would be written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker, Fede Alvarez.

Face the Music was released in 1975, producing the hit singles " Evil Woman " and " Strange Magic ".

At first, he is mistaken for a murderer by the four people because he shoots at them through the door ( mistaking them as the Evil Force ), but they find out the truth after listening to a recording of Annie's father, Professor Knowby ( John Peaks ), that talked about how his wife Henrietta was possessed and buried in the cabin's cellar rather than dismembered.

The concept of a sequel to The Evil Dead was discussed during the location shooting on the first film.

Irvin Shapiro, a publicist who was primarily responsible for the mainstream release of The Evil Dead, suggested that they next work on an Evil Dead sequel.