Army of Darkness Page #3

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of the rancid water. He looks about.

103INT. PIT - ASH'S P.O.V. 103

UNDERGROUND CAVERNS disappear into the blackness.

104ASH 104

spins to a small sound.

105INT. PIT - ASH'S P.O.V. 105

Nothing. Just the mist rising from the water.

106ASH 106

shifts his glance again.

107A SHADOW 107

rounds a corner and disappears from sight.

108ASH 108

doesn't notice the misty water behind him beginning to stir.

Bubbles. A hand emerges. Silently, a pair of bone white eyes

break the surface.

109ASH 109

spins... but there's nothing there. As he turns back around,

he is confronted by...

A FEMALE EVIL DEAD

It's rotted corpse rockets up from the water inches from Ash's

face!

110CLOSER 110

Putrid water drains from it's empty eye sockets and mouth. It

jerks like a marionette as it advances.

111ASH SCREAM 111

and backs against the steep rock wall of the pit. He tries to

scale the steep face. He gets one foot up.

112THE DEADITE'S HAND 112

clutches Ash's ankle and yanks him back down.

113DOWN ANGLE ON ASH 113

He falls away from the wall, his arms flailing.

114ABOVE THE PIT - GOLD TOOTH AND OTHER VILLAGERS 114

hoot and cheer for Ash to be devoured.

115THE PIT - THE DEADITE 115

grabs Ash, and begins hammering him with her rotted fists.

116ABOVE THE PIT - SHEILA 116

shouts for Ash's death.

117THE PIT - ASH'S FACE 117

The Deadite's fist enters frame, slugging Ash.

118LONG SHOT - ASH 118

is knocked back into a shallow pool of steaming water.

119THE DEADITE 119

races toward Ash, leaps into the air and comes down with a

kneedrop onto Ash's stomach.

120ASH 120

cries out in pain.

121ASH'S LEGS 121

cross to form a scissor lock around the Deadite's throat. He

flips the beast.

122ABOVE THE PIT - WISEMAN JOHN 122

rides into the castle, dismounts and pushes through the crowd

with a bundle wrapped in cloth.

123THE DEADITE 123

grabs Ash by the throat.

124THE PIT - A BLOODIED ASH124

is thrown against the rock wall of the pit.

125THE DEADITE 125

advances.

126ABOVE THE PIT - WISEMAN JOHN 126

shouts down at Ash.

127THE PIT - ASH 127

trying to hear what the Wiseman is saying. His head jolts

backward, barely avoiding the beast's wild swing. Ash squints

to discern Wiseman John throwing something down to him: an

object falling at him through the glare above.

128THE CHAINSAW - SLOW MOTION 128

tumbling downward. Blinding beams of sunlight bouncing off its

blade of steel. Ash's Excalibur!

129ASH - SLOW MOTION 129

summons his strength and leaps upward.

130LOW ANGLE - LOOKING UP - THE CHAINSAW - SLOW MOTION 130

Tumbling downward...

131HIGH ANGLE- ASH 131

ascending, his teeth gritted, every muscle straining, he soars

past CAMERA.

132LONG SHOT - SLOW MOTION 132

Ash rising up through frame to meet the falling saw.

133ASH'S STUMP 133

snags the chainsaw, locking in onto his wrist bracket.CLICK!

134ASH WITH HIS CHAINSAW 134

He lands on his feet, in the path of the approaching beast.

ASH:

Come on, you blasted piece of--

He thrusts out his chainsaw arm, yanking the starter cord and...

VERRROOOOOOM!!

135ABOVE THE PIT - THE WARRIOR AND VILLAGERS 135

gasp at the ROAR of the chainsaw. Blue exhaust billows up from

the pit.

136THE PIT - LOW ANGLE - THE DEADITE 136

lunges at Ash.

137DEADITE HAND MEETS SAW 137

Buzzzzz!!

138ASH 138

is splattered with black bile.

139THE DEADITE'S SEVERED HAND 139

flies upward, past the face of the bewildered beast.

140CAMERA MOUNTED TO THE HAND 140

as it ascends, Ash and the Deadite grow smaller below.

141ABOVE THE PIT - THE DEADITE'S SEVERED HAND 141

flies up into frame and latches onto the face of a drunken

spectator. It's fingers dig into the eyes and nose. He shrieks

and flails about, into the screaming crowd. A Warrior tears the

hand free from his face, tossing it back down into the pit.

142THE PIT - ASH 142

raises the chainsaw blade and neatly bisects the falling deadite

hand. He spins and with a roundhouse blow...

143CAMERA MOUNTED ON ASH 143

Ash decapitates the beast.

144ABOVE THE PIT - THE WARRIORS AND VILLAGERS 144

stop cheering from the Deadite. They're starting to like this

guy's guts and style.

145THE LAST REMNANTS 145

of the beast sink beneath the murky waters of the pit.

146ASH 146

climbs the steep wall of the pit when a SECOND DEADITE emerges

from the earthen wall before him.

147ASH 147

slams the butt end of the chainsaw into the beast, knocking it

back into the water.

148ABOVE THE PIT - THE VILLAGERS148

gasp as...

THUMP!

149ASH'S CHAINSAW ARM 149

comes up, over the edge of the pit. Followed by... THUMP! Ash's

bloody hand. Then his bruised face. Covered in the black blood

of the Deadites. He crawls to his feet.

Ash tuns to the crowd, his list clenched.

ASH:

All right now. Who wants to be

next? Who wants some.

150GOLD TOOTH 150

look at Ash stupidly. Ash shoves him.

ASH:

You want some more? Huh?!

Gold Tooth and the others give him a wide berth. Ash calls out

to Henry.

ASH:

Now climb on those horses and get

out of here.

151HENRY AND HIS TWO WARRIORS 151

quickly mount horses.

ARTHUR:

Nay. Henry is my prisoners. He--

152ASH 152

slaps Henry's horse.

ASH:

GIDDYUP NOW!! HYAAAH!

153THE STUNNED CROWD 153

parts allowing...

154HENRY AND HIS WARRIORS 154

to gallop off toward the open drawbridge and freedom.

155ARTHUR 155

stares at Ash with hatred.

ARTHUR:

For that, I shall see you dead.

156ASH 156

removes his sawed off shotgun from Wiseman John's horse and

turns to Arthur, then the crowd.

ASH:

This is my boomstick. It's a

twelve gauge, double barreled

Remington pump. Next one of you

primitives touch me...

157ASH SPINS, 157

pointing the barrel just past Arthur. He, but no one else, has

spotted the surviving Second Deadite crawling up from the pit

on the forgotten chain.

The crowds gasp is cut short by....BLAMMITY-BLAM!

The shotgun belches flame. The blast cuts the chain, leaving

the Deadite teetering at the pit's edge.

158ANGLE ON 158

BLAMMITY-BLAM!

The second shot blows the beast into a backflip, sending it

summersaulting down into the pit.

159THE SOUND OF THE GUNBLAST 159

echoes off the mountains like distant thunder.

160SHEILA, THE WISEMAN, ARTHUR AND THE CROWD 160

look to Ash in reverence.

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