Army of Darkness
ARTHUR
Turns to Ash for the signal.
ASH
Holds up a finger. He waits.
TWELVE ARCHERS
Strain, their bows taut with the explosive arrows. The sound of the FUSE BURNING is loud.
THE BURNING FUSES
About to disappear into the powder charges.
ASH
Waits one more beat. The turns to Arthur.
ASH
Fire!
ARTHUR
Fire!
TWELVE ARCHERS
Fire a volley of smoking arrows.
SMOKING AND SPUTTERING ARROWS
Rain down from the castle wall.
TWO WOODEN BARRICADES
Are hit with the explosive arrows. They explode.
THREE DEADITES
Are pierced by the explosive arrows. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! They burst apart in flames.
FLAMING DEADITES
Roll on the ground unable to extinguish themselves.
A BURNING SKELETON
Continues to advance only to collapse into a smoldering heap.
THE WARRIORS
CHEER Ash in sensurround.
A SCOUT
Races up to Ash.
SCOUT
M'Lord! A second division approaching from the South.
ASH
Turns to the South.
A SECOND WAVE A DEADITES
Approach.
ASH
CATAPULTS... SOUTH!
INT. COURTYARD
THREE WOODEN CATAPULTS are wheeled into position.
ARTHUR
Powder!
GOLD TOOTH AND OTHER WARRIORS
Hoist large sacks of black powder onto spoons of the catapults. Their fuses are lit.
ASH
Gestures. Swords slice through lines which send giant sacks of black powder catapulting.
LONG SHOT – CASTLE
Three flaming projectiles whine as they hurl over the castle walls.
THREE FALLING SATCHELS POV
CAMERA CRANING DOWN toward the skeletons as they look upward in horror.
BOOM! The first blast takes out a skeleton horse and rider. Bones fly.
BOOM! FOUR DEADITES are obliterated.
EVIL ASH
Turns to the Skeleton Captain #1 who rides alongside him.
SKELETON CAPTAIN #1
Permission to regroup, m'Lord.
EVIL ASH
You needn't bother.
EVIL ASH
Slices off the head of Skeleton Captain #1. He turns to the MOUNTED DEADITE next to him.
EVIL ASH
You are now my captain. I will now allow anything to stop me from possessing the Necronomicon. Get me into that castle.
THE NEW DEADITE CAPTAIN
Gulps and races forward into the ranks shouting:
NEW DEADITE CAPTAIN
RAM THE GATES!
TWO GROUPS OF FOUR SKELETONS
Use trees as battering rams and batter the large wooden doors of the castle.
BOOM-BOOM!
INT. CASTLE – THE CASTLE DOORS
Begin to buckle beneath the hammering blows.
TWO VILLAGE WOMEN
Scream!
TEN WARRIORS
Wedge logs to buttress the buckling castle doors.
EXT. CASTLE
EVIL ASH
Arrows!
A ROW OF SIX SKELETAL ARCHERS
Fire a volley of arrows. As they reload. Behind them...
A SECOND LINE OF SIX SKELETAL ARCHERS
Fire their arrows.
A VOLLEY OF DEADITES' ARROWS
Pierce five Warriors atop the castle wall. They fall.
INT. CASTLE
TWO DEAD WARRIORS fall to the courtyard. Villagers lift them away on stretchers.
ARTHUR
Shouts to Ash:
ARTHUR
Where is Henry? !
ASH
He'll be here.
ARTHUR
I think he will not. But know this. No matter how this battle fares, I was wrong to think you a coward.
EXT. CASTLE
The battering rams rips through the doors and the army of darkness pours into the courtyard.
A LEGLESS SKELETON
Crawls in with a knife in its teeth.
ARTHUR
They're coming in. What now?!
ASH
Looks terrified. He turns and runs from the castle entrance, dropping his sword, and hides in the blacksmith's shop, pulling the door closed behind him.
ARTHUR
Shocked at Ash's cowardly desertion, turns to his men and shouts:
ARTHUR
Fall back! Man the Parapet! Protect the book or God save us all!
THE WARRIORS
Retreat across the courtyard to rope ladders that scale the parapet.
ARTHUR'S MEN CLIMB ATOP THE PARAPET
The rope ladders are hastily pulled up, leaving no access.
INT. COURTYARD – SIX OF ARTHUR'S WARRIORS


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