Army of Darkness

ASH

You gotta tell 'em you don't know me. We never met. Tell him.

HENRY

I do not believe that he shall listen.

THE WARRIORS

Grab Ash and shove him into the pit.

102.ASH

Tumbles down into the pit. He lands in a STEAMING pool of foul water at the pit's bottom. He stands and coughs out a mouthful of the rancid water. He looks about.

INT. PIT – ASH'S POV

UNDERGROUND CAVERNS disappear into the blackness.

ASH

Spins to a small sound.

INT. PIT – ASH'S POV

Nothing. Just the mist rising from the water.

ASH

Sifts his glance again.

A SHADOW

Rounds a corner and disappears from sight.

ASH

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.

ASH

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!

CLOSER

Putrid water drains from it's empty eye sockets and mouth. It jerks like a marionette as it advances.

ASH SCREAMS

And backs against the steep rock wall of the pit. He tries to scale the steep face. He gets one foot up.

THE DEADITE'S HAND

Clutches Ash's ankle and yanks him back down.

DOWN ANGLE ONASH

He falls away from the wall, his arms flailing.

ABOVE THE PIT – GOLD TOOTH AND OTHER VILLAGERS

Hoot and cheer for Ash to be devoured.

THE PIT – THE DEADITE

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

ABOVE THE PIT – SHEILA

Shouts for Ash's death.

THE PIT – ASH'S FACE

The Deadite's fist enters frame, slugging Ash.

LONG SHOT – ASH

Is knocked back into a shallow pool of steaming water.

THE DEADITE

Races toward Ash, leaps into the air and comes down with a kneedrop onto Ash's stomach.

ASH

Cries out in pain.

ASH'S LEGS

Cross to form a scissors lock around the Deadite's throat. He flips the beast.

ABOVE THE PIT – WISEMAN JOHN

Rides into the castle, dismounts and pushes through the crowd with a bundle wrapped in cloth.

THE DEADITE

Grabs Ash by the throat.

THE PIT – A BLOODIED ASH

Is thrown against the rock wall of the pit.

THE DEADITE

Advances.

ABOVE THE PIT – WISEMAN JOHN

Shouts down at Ash.

THE PIT – ASH

Tying 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.

THE CHAINSAW – SLOW MOTION

Tumbling downward. Blinding beams of sunlight bouncing off its blade of steel. Ash's Excalibur!

ASH – SLOW MOTION

Summons his strength and leaps upward.

LOW ANGLE – LOOKING UP – THE CHAINSAW – SLOW MOTION

Tumbling downward...

HIGH ANGLE – ASH

Ascending, his teeth gritted, every muscle straining, he soars past CAMERA.

LONG SHOT – SLOW MOTION

Ash rising up through frame to meet the falling saw.

ASH'S STUMP

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

ASH WITH HIS CHAINSAW

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!!!

ABOVE THE PIT – THE WARRIOR AND VILLAGERS

Gasp at the ROAR of the chainsaw. Blue exhaust billows up from the pit.

THE PIT – LOW ANGLE – THE DEADITE

Lunges at Ash.

DEADITE HAND MEETS SAW

BUZZZZZZZ!!

ASH

Is splattered with black bile.

THE DEADITE'S SEVERED HAND

Flies upward, past the face of the bewildered beast.

CAMERA MOUNTED TO THE HAND

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

ABOVE THE PIT – THE DEADITE'S SEVERED HAND

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.

THE PIT – ASH

Raises the chainsaw blade and neatly bisects the falling Deadite hand. He spins and with a roundhouse blow...

CAMERA MOUNTED ON ASH

Ash decapitates the beast.

ABOVE THE PIT – THE WARRIORS AND VILLAGERS

Stop cheering from the Deadite. They're starting to like this guy's guts and style.

THE LAST REMNANTS

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

ASH

Climbs the steep wall of the pit when a SECOND DEADITE emerges from the earthen wall before him.

ASH

Slams the butt end of the chainsaw into the beast, knocking it back into the water.

ABOVE THE PIT – THE VILLAGERS

Gasp as...

THUMP!

ASH'S CHAINSAW ARM

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?

GOLD TOOTH

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.

HENRY AND HIS TWO WARRIORS

Quickly mount horses.

ARTHUR

Nay. Henry is my prisoners. He –

ASH

Slaps Henry's horse.

ASH

GIDDYUP NOW!! HYAAAH!

THE STUNNED CROWD

Parts allowing...

HENRY AND HIS WARRIORS

To gallop off toward the open drawbridge and freedom.

ARTHUR

Stares at Ash with hatred.

ARTHUR

For that, I shall see you dead.

ASH

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...

ASH SPINS

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.

ANGLE ON

BLAMMITY-BLAM!

The second shot blows the beast into a backflip, sending it summersaulting down into the pit.

THE SOUND OF THE GUNBLAST

Echoes off the mountains like distant thunder.

SHEILA, THE WISEMAN, ARTHUR AND THE CROWD

Look to Ash in reverence.

ASH