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Army of Darkness (1992) [Full Reaction] (Patreon)

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2026-05-27 18:00:14
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2026-06-02 00:01:04
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2026-08
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Holy moly tonal whiplash from the first two. 😂 I respect it, though. This reaction is to the Theatrical Version (runtime: 1h21m). My video includes a reaction to the Alternate Ending (as it's listed on the DVD, but it starts with a text card that says "Original Ending") and there is no syncing required for that. Enjoy the reaction! Looking forward to your thoughts.

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Army of Darkness (1992) | Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Christian Rennie

I like the S-Mart ending too and it makes more sense for the TV series "Ash vs. Evil Dead" (2015) 4 seasons, which stars Bruce Campbell too. The other movies are new directors with different takes on the story (horror). But if you want more Ash (Ashley J. Williams), I think the series (comedy) is the closest to continuing the story after this movie. I saw this movie in theaters with my brother back in the day and it was my first introduction to the series. I liked that style so my bro took me to see "Cabin Boy" (1994), not very good. Sam, Ivan, and Ted Raimi really are amazing peeps. Also, if you want more Bruce Campbell, "Bubba Ho-tep" is a fun good one. But then you are getting into the B-movie territory. So, probably see that one on your own. There is another Campbell movie where someone recruits him (Bruce Campbell) to fight their towns supernatural monster but he's just an actor, right? Comedy ensures. It is even more of a B-movie, it's "My Name is Bruce" (2007).

Vincent Hollow

I completely forgot the "Hey...She-Bitch" line and I nearly choked 🤣 I dont know why but this movie was extra funny this go around.

Vincent Hollow

The new Evil Dead and its sequels is actually a reboot of the original. Both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell were producers on all of them, but Bruce as Ash is not part of the series. If i remember correctly, Sam and Bruce told the director, Fede Alvarez, there wouldn't be an Ash character because only Bruce could play him, and the fans would hate no matter who they picked as the New Ash, which obviously Fede totally understood and respected. I honestly love the reboot just as much as the original and I thought the sequel, Evil Dead Rise, was also really good. They go...far. The third one, Evil Dead Burn, is coming out this year, but I haven't seen the trailer for that one yet, but I'm definitely gonna try and make it to the theater for that one.

Tyler Foster

I was curious to see how the tone shift would go over with you. I thought about mentioning it but I decided it was best to let you find out for yourself. I'm glad it was still positive even if your opinion of the movie was the lowest of the three. I'd call AoD "Evil Dead for people who love Ren Faire." The one scene that I think works the best in its most extended form (which I don't even know if it appears in any of the actual cuts of the film) is your least-favorite: the mini-Ashes scene. The longer version of the scene won't make you like it any more because the tone of it is still the same, but the scene in the theatrical film is cut so much it barely makes sense. The longer version starts when he's at the door and the Evil Dead force-whoosh is banging on it. He actually waits a bit after the last bang and determines it's gone, but looks around the windmill and gets an eerie feeling. It cuts to night, and he hears a noise outside, and goes to investigate, where he finds his horse wandering around after having lost it during the chase. He turns back to the door of the windmill and sees himself inside, and the door slams shut. He runs back to the windmill, through the door, and *then* into the mirror -- a sequence of events which barely makes sense in the finished film as he instead just turns around from the fire and runs into a mirror about 10 feet away. There are also more extensions in the business with the little Ashes that make the sequence flow better. For example, they cut out a section after he scrapes his face off of the stovetop (which I believe is "on" because it's part of the fireplace, and the fireplace is going). I forget exactly what happens but he bangs his head on the pipe overhead a third time and then hits it in a rage, dumping soot on his face, and the theatrical cut just fudges things so that the soot is framed like it's what happened to his face on the stove. As far as I know, it is Bruce in the makeup in most of the Zombie Ash stuff, except during the fighting because of course Bruce is playing regular Ash. Also, after Zombie Ash gets all of his skin burned off, the skeleton suddenly has Sam Raimi's voice. Most of the other extensions as I remember them take place in the battle sequences. The line "Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun" is replaced with the lesser "I'm not *that* good." Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure the lines "give me some sugar, baby" and "hail to the king, baby" made it into the iconic video game Duke Nukem, along with another famous line from a movie that is somewhat similar to this that you might hear in the near future. As far as the blood goes, during the 1980s and through the 1990s, horror movies were constantly at war with the Motion Picture Association of America. Many a Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th were eviscerated by the ratings board in their attempt to get R ratings. It may just be that Raimi thought "better safe than sorry" and went more bloodless with this one, after battling the MPAA on the first two films, especially having made this one for a major motion picture studio instead of independently. My only real nitpick about the studio process is that while Army of Darkness is a pretty great title, I also loved the original: The Medieval Dead. In addition to the Bruce sequence, the scene I really think you should rewatch from Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the entire Zombie Strange sequence, which is pure Evil Dead from top to bottom. Frankly, I would have a hard time believing Benedict Cumberbatch didn't intentionally channel Bruce's line readings for that part because he has the rhythms down and everything. Another good one to look at (although you probably know it very well already) is the sequence in Spider-Man 2 where surgeons attempt to cut off Doc Ock's arms after his initial accident -- also pure Evil Dead. One thing about Raimi is that he does tend to like putting blowhards in horror movies, so Ash being sort of an idiot in this one is something Raimi just finds to be funny. Perhaps that's because then the horrific things that happen to him are a little wickedly funny as well as being scary. It sounds like the next Raimi movies that might be the most fun for you would be his return to the horror genre as a director after many years, Drag Me to Hell (2009), or his newest movie, Send Help (2026). Last but not least, the phrase "klaatu barada nikto" is borrowed from the landmark science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). Also, there are a couple of cameos in the S-Mart sequences: Bridget Fonda (great granddaughter of 12 Angry Men's Henry Fonda), star of Jackie Brown (stoner girl Melanie) and wife of composer Danny Elfman, plays the third version of Linda, and Sam's other brother Ted, who you see in the Daily Bugle in the Spider-Man movies, plays Ash's co-worker at the end.

Sharpgirl

Woohoo!!! Flew on a plane today. I just got settled in for the night in a hotel. (Visiting my aging parents for a couple days) This is perfect for a by myself kinda night.

Chris Thom

People make fun of sequels that go off the rails, but I have to respect it. At least they're trying to give the audience something new and creative. That said, Halloween 3 still has me scratching my head and wondering what they were thinking leaving out Michael Meyers.

Vincent Hollow

I believe originally they were planning to make it kind of an anthology series with different spooky things happening on Halloween, but when audiences didn't like that Michael Myers was missing, they ditched the anthology idea and just kept it centered around Michael.

WastedPo

I agree with you that this one strayed a little bit too hard into the comedy. I mean, I still like it. But the second movie for me is the perfect mashup between horror and comedy. And Ash's one-liners hit differently in ED2 because it felt like he was actually confronting real danger. As far as the "original ending" to Army of Darkness, I think that just means that the "I slept too long" ending is what was originally shot. But it was changed to the S-Mart ending before the official release of the movie, at least for American audiences. (I'm not sure if this is the result of test screenings or what.) So most people that grew up with this movie know the S-Mart ending. The ending where he sleeps too long and wakes up in the future might be the ending that was released in Asia, but I'm not sure about that one. Either way, I greatly prefer the S-Mart ending. It's frankly one of my favorite sequences in the whole movie.