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Plot

The third in director Sam Raimi's stylish, comic book-like horror trilogy that began with The Evil Dead (1982), this tongue-in-cheek sequel offers equal parts sword-and-sorcery-style action, gore, and comedy. Bruce Campbell returns as the one-armed Ash, now a supermarket employee ("Shop Smart...Shop S-Mart") who is transported by the powers of a mysterious book back in time with his Oldsmobile '88 to the 14th century medieval era. Armed only with a shotgun, his high school chemistry textbook, and a chainsaw that mounts where his missing appendage once resided, the square-jawed, brutally competent Ash quickly establishes himself as a besieged kingdom's best hope against an "army of darkness" currently plaguing the land. Since the skeleton warriors have been resurrected with the aid of the Necronomicon (the same tome that can send Ash back to his own time) he agrees to face the enemy in battle. Ash also finds romance of a sort along the way with a beautiful damsel in distress, Sheila (Embeth Davidtz), and contends with his own doppelganger after mangling an important incantation.
MPAA Rating:
R
Genre(s):
Action,Horror
Run Time:
77min.
Theatrical Release Date:
12/23/1992
DVD Release Date:
08/19/1998
Distributor(s):
Universal
Director(s):
Sam Raimi
Starring:
Bruce Campbell , Embeth Davidtz , Marcus Gilbert , Ian Abercrombie , Richard Grove
Themes:
Time Travel,Shrunken People,Curses and Spells,Race Against Time,Fish Out of Water
Tone:
Light,Frantic,Campy,Humorous,Silly,Stylized
Keywords:
army,chainsaw,damsel-in-distress,doppelganger,evil,good-vs-evil,hero,kidnapping,knight,medieval,potion,skeleton,supernatural,time-travel,undead,villain,windmill,zombie
Language:
English