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My name is Ash and I am
a slave. Close as I can figure

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it. The year is thirteen hundred
a d. And I'm being a dragon

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my death. It wasn't always like
this. I had a real life at

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once a job hardware all twelve shop
Smart Shop Smart. I had a wonderful

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girlfriend, Linda. Together we drove
to a small cabin in the mountains.

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It seems an archaeologist to come to
this remote place to translate and study his

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latest fine Acranamicon ex mortis, the
Book of the Dead. Found in human

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flesh and inked in blood, This
ancient Sumerian text contained bizarre burial rites,

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funerary incantations, and demon resurrection passages. It was never meant for the world

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of the living. The book awoke
something dark in the woods. It took

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Linda, and then it came from
me. It got into my hand and

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it went back. So I locked
it off at the rest, but that

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didn't stop it. It came back
big time. In nineteen eighty one,

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a little heralded independent supernatural horror film
about a group of college students camping in

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rural Tennessee that find the Necromonicon,
otherwise known as the Book of the dead

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and unwittingly bring forth demons from al
that take their lives. Captivated audience is

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However, at the end of that
film there was one survivor. That survivor

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would go on to star in two
additional sequels and a cable television series.

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It is the third film of the
series that is most known and our subject

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for this week's Classic film review.
Directed by Sam Raimi, released in nineteen

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ninety three, Army of Darkness is
the third film in the Evil Dead series.

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The film continues directly where nineteen eighty
seven's Evil Dead two left off.

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Our everyman hero Ash Williams Bruce Campbell, in his career defining role, is

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transported through a demonic portal to medieval
times. We're in order to get back

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home, he must retrieve the Necromonicon, but in doing so unwittingly Unleash's demons

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of hell on the land and must
help the Kingdom ward them off in a

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climactic final battle. Our opening clip
was the voiceover that starts this film.

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Ash explains the story of the past
two films and where he is at now.

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Our next clip sets Ash up as
an unlikely hero of the Kingdom after

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defeating the infamous pit Witch, where
he was thrown into a pit to die.

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He uses his unknown technology to the
people a shotgun lovingly known as his

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boomstick, to ward off the Witch
and gets the people of the kingdom to

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rally behind him and get him home. For that arrogance, I shall see

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you dead. Yeah, all right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up.

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See this. This is my poodstick, the twelve gage double belled Remington s

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Smart's top of the line. You
can find this in the sporting goods department.

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That's right. This week baby was
made in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Retails for about one hundred and nine
to ninety five. It set a walnut

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stock, cobalt blue steel and a
hair trigger. That's right, Shop Smart,

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Shop s Smart. You got that
now, I swear the next one

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of you primates even touches me.
Now, let's talk about how I get

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back home. It could be argued, and I would even get behind the

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argument that the original Evil Dead is
one of the greatest cult classics ever.

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A great deal of the credit has
to go to Campbell and his performance of

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Ash. This is because, in
a way, like many great movie characters,

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Ash can be seen as all of
us. We have all been in

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positions where situation of possible heroism or
the requirement to help have been thrust upon

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us, and we have to accept
it against our own intuition. That is

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Ash in a nutshell. Our next
two clips show this. First is a

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short clip that has Ash being given
specific instructions on what words to say by

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the village wizard, the great Ian
Abercrombie better known as mister Pitt from the

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great TV series seinfeld In. The
words are a homage to the original The

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Day the Earth Stood Still. Ash
proclaims he will remember those words. But

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then our next clip shows us that
despite Ash's best intentions, he once again,

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through his own inability to do things
the right way, brings deadites unto

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the world, and that is due
to his own dim witted nature. This

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path will lead you to an unholy
place, a cemetery. They're the necronomica

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that waits when thou retrievest the book
from its cradle. You must recite the

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words platu verratackto clatu verrata nto.
Okay, well repeat them clatu verrata nickto

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again. I got it, I
got it. I know your damn words.

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All right now, Ash attempts to
recite the words when he retrieves the

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n acromonicon o. Wait a minute, the words right, right right,

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say the words plato, mm hmm, necktie, nectar, nicol, nodle.

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It'said word, it's different in word, it's definitely inward, clato,

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rada. Okay, then that's it. Hey, wait a minute, everything's

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cool, I said, I can't. This film is such a phenomenal array

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of genres. It has comedy,
This is largely due to Ash and his

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many quotable one liners. It has
horror, science fiction, fantasy, action,

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and even old style special effects that
will even warm the heart of the

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most hardened cinemaphile. With so many
elements of film at play, it's easy

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to see why so many, no
matter what they are a fan of,

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simply adore this film. To this
day. This film lives on you.

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Hear Ashes quotes regularly. Hail to
the King, baby, groovy, you

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got really ugly really quick, that
was only pillow talk baby, and this

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is my boomstick, among many others, are a part of pop culture vernacular

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to this day. Campbell is one
of the most highly regarded and best beloved

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b movie actors of all time,
a role he relishes and welcomes at comic

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book and film conventions to this day. That is why this film is a

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classic. It doesn't take itself too
seriously. It doesn't allow itself to get

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put into one genre. Forget about
talking about awards, box office numbers,

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or even critical analysis. If you
want a great film that serves anything you're

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in the mood for, this is
that film that will do that for you.

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It is one of the best films
to watch, and much like all

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the films covered this month, the
time of year does not matter. I

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hope you join me next week when
we conclude our Halloween slate of films,

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within my opinion, the greatest slasher
film of all time, John Carpenter's Halloween.

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To close this week's review and a
rarity for classic film reviews, I

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want to share the final scene of
Army of Darkness and let Ash have the

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final word and for you the audience
to hear how once again Ash is Ineptness

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brings doom to the world. For
WMNH and Matt Connorton unleashed, this has

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been a classic film review with Eric
Culture. I thought about staying they offered

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me the chance to lead them,
to teach them to be king. Uh

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huh, but my place is here, So I swallowed the Jews said the

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words, and here I am.
Did you say the words right this time?

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Well maybe I didn't say every single, tiny little syllable no, but

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basically I said him, yeah,
basically. You know that story about how

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you could have been king. I
think it's kind of cute. Yeah,

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lady, I'm afraid I'm gonna have
to ask you to leave the store HOODI

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name's that Housewares. I'll swallow your
soul, come get some m hm.

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Sure I could have stayed in the
past, could have even been king,

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but in my own way, I
am king. Hail to the King, baby m