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. Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, the Three Stooges, and Conan the Barbarian. 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". Promotional drawings were created and published in Variety during the casting process before the budget was deemed too little for the plot. The working title for the project was Medieval Dead, before it was later known as 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.
Army of Darkness
(1992) " He’s a 20th century guy, trapped in the middle ages."
| Country | |
| Runtime | 1 hr 21 min |
| Budget | $11 000 000 |
| Premiere: World | $11 505 925 October 31, 1992 |
| USA | $11 502 976 |
| Other countries | $2949 |
| Box Office – Budget | $505 925 |
| Premiere: USA | $11 502 976 February 19, 1993 |
| theaters | 1391 |
| rollout | 316 days |
| Digital: World | September 6, 2006 |
| Parental Advisory | Violence & Gore, ... |
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| Also Known As | Army of Darkness: The Ultimate Experience in Medieval Horror (United States) Army of Darkness: The Medieval Dead (United Kingdom) |