# Army Of Darkness...WTF?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 23, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/army-of-darkness-wtf/377531 "2006-10-23T04:31:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/army-of-darkness-wtf/377531/21 "2006-10-23T23:46:19Z")

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I have so many sound clips from this movie as various alert sounds on my computer it isn’t funny.

“Groovy.”

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/army-of-darkness-wtf/377531/22 "2006-10-24T01:48:16Z")

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Just to let you know, _Dead by Dawn_ isn’t exactly a sequel to _The Evil Dead_, but more of a re-make. They took the events of the first movie and compressed them for the first half of _Dead by Dawn_, then added a new ending and a new love interest.

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/army-of-darkness-wtf/377531/23 "2006-10-24T07:30:17Z")

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Another movie my girlfirend won’t watch with me and my mate who loves this kind of thing is away to Japan to teach English for the year :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/army-of-darkness-wtf/377531/24 "2006-10-24T07:36:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Chronos]  
Just to let you know, _Dead by Dawn_ isn’t exactly a sequel to _The Evil Dead_, but more of a re-make. They took the events of the first movie and compressed them for the first half of _Dead by Dawn_, then added a new ending and a new love interest.  
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I beg to differ, although this is a common misconception. Raimi and company wanted to make a sequel that would pick up right where the first left off. Since they realized that many potential viewers wouldn’t have seen the first film, they wanted to do a recap.

When they couldn’t get the rights to use footage from the original, they filmed a new recap, keeping Ash and Linda but dropping the rest of the crew from the story. They then told the story from the point that the first film ended.

They did the same thing for Army of Darkness, with a new recap that varied from the previous chapter.

Bruce and Sam discuss it in the commentary for **Bruce Campbell vs. The Army of Darkness** even saying that they feel you can watch the three films, skipping the recaps, as a coherent whole story.

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