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This auction is for a fully re-edited, 108-minute version of the film "Army of Darkness"! That's right, ONE HOUR and FORTY-EIGHT minutes a full TWELVE MINUTES longer than the recently-released, so-called "director's cut" DVD.
As most fans of the movie know, there are several versions of this film in existence, ranging in length from 81 minutes to 96 minutes. But this new version trumps them ALL! I created it during my senior year of college as a senior thesis, using professional-level digital film-editing equipment, and using material from all five sources. Extensive shot-by-shot research went into the production of this thing, and it's quite honestly the overall BEST version available. The only reason it's not on DVD is that we don't have that equipment YET.
This isn't a cheesy dub-of-a-dub, either I don't churn these out en masse in my basement. This thing is an original single copy, directly created by attaching together the digitally-produced 20-minute segments of the movie I created one at a time. (The hard drive, you see, only held 20 minutes of footage.)
Fans who bought the recent "director's cut" DVD were disappointed to note several things: first off, that it wasn't "widescreen" the movie was shot in 1:85-1 format, but presented here in 1:33-1 format slightly wider than "fullscreen", but it STILL had its sides partially cropped off. In addition, most of the restored footage was of TERRIBLE quality compared to the rest of the movie it was grainy, foggy, and its colors were washed out and worse, it was fairly obviously a FULLSCREEN shot that had its top and bottom chopped off to make it APPEAR widescreen meaning that these restored shots were cropped on ALL FOUR SIDES.
And the audio for these "restored" scenes was faulty in spots as well. In general it was mixed well, but there are certain spots where they seem to have lost the original audio completely, and plugged the hole by drag-and-drop recycling other portions. In the middle of the battle scene, during the catapult launches, you can hear the exact same six-second audio segment repeat itself twice in a row. "Yeah!" Swish! Thud. / "Yeah!" Swish! Thud. That's not cool.
In addition, the "Director's Cut" LEFT OUT a few shots, most notoriously the scene where Bad Ash rips off the top of Sheila's dress.
So, yeah enough of how the Director's Cut was bad. What does MY version have?
I studied five different versions of the film the 81m theatrical release, the Sci-Fi channel's 88m showing, the 87m Japanese laserdisc version, the 96m "director's cut" DVD, and a 97m Korean bootleg of the REAL director's cut from before the film's official release. (This is how I knew what the so-called "director's cut" DVD was missing.) Drawing on elements from all five, I created the longest-possible version of Army of Darkness, using the longest version of every scene and the longest version of every SHOT. I mixed in as much as I could of the four deleted scenes on the recent DVD, as well as footage from "Evil Dead 2" the resulting hybrid film was a whopping 108 minutes long.
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Here's the bonus stuff I did:
- Wherever I could, I REPLACED a "semi-widescreen" shot from the director's cut DVD with its "full-widescreen" shot from the theatrical release DVD. Every shot that coexists in the 81-minute version AND the 96-minute version has been replaced with its fully widescreen, full-color, digital-quality counterpart. This brightened up at least 50 minutes of the film!
- I added back in the shots that the "director's cut" left out shots of the miniature Ash battle, and of Bad Ash ripping off Sheila's dress using the Japanese laserdisc and theatrical DVD!
- I patched the spots where the re-edit crew that produced the "director's cut" DVD had lost the original audio, by using the audio from the bootleg VHS! (So, yeah, in two or three spots the audio sounds muffled, but at least its the ORIGINAL sound effects!) I also added in a few shots and lines of dialogue that were present in the Sci-Fi channel version but nowhere else!
- I patched the spots where the re-edit crew had lost the original MUSIC by using the CD soundtrack! (NO quality loss there!) The entire "Little Ash" sequence, for example, was supposed to have music behind it, and the DVD producers left it out well, I put it back in!
- I added in three deleted scenes IN FULL which was harder than it looks, given that in many cases I had to play with the scene in the movie to make the addition work. (Did Ash see the windmill in the distance and stagger towards it, exhausted, or did he bolt for it? Did he enter cautiously, or did he jump in and slam the door?) In many cases I had to improve the audio on the deleted scenes from other sources like the Sci-Fi channel version, which aired with portions of these scenes intact!
- I added a segment of the other deleted scene at the very beginning of the film Ash, in closeup, narrates the events that led up to the film, leading INTO his opening dialogue "my name is Ash, and I am a slave". Also added here is additional opening music found only on the CD soundtrack!
- I added footage from the end of "Evil Dead 2" that smoothes the jarring transition between films! In ED2, Ash falls from the sky, kills a Deadite, and is hailed as a savior. In AoD, Ash falls from the sky and is taken prisoner. In my version, Ash falls from the sky (combining BOTH sets of "falling" footage), kills an attacking Deadite, and the knights are impressed and taken aback but stop short of actually hailing him as a savior when Arthur accuses him of being an agent of Henry the Red. It's still different than the ending of ED2, but it incorporates enough of the ending to ED2 to make it recognizable, rather than being COMPLETELY different.
- And finally, I did the same thing in combining the two ALTERNATE ENDINGS! Sure, they're different enough that they couldn't be COMPLETELY reconciled, but I was able to use all but three shots in the "deleted" ending to complement and explain Ash's return to the present-day in the "regular" ending.
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Does all this get you curious what my version of "Army of Darkness" looks like? Well, it should I spent months comparing each version shot-by-shot, and enduring that my version of this film combined the best possible source for every scene and shot. I wrote a 23-page paper on editing logic, and received an A on the project I graduated college BECAUSE of this project. And now, two years later, I'm opening up my version to the fandom public. I consider it the true "fan's cut" fixing all the errors that pissed off fans when the "director's cut" DVD came out, and expanding on that version to create a longer, better, more involved storyline. Making every Campbell-fan and Deadite's favorite film as complete and good-looking a package as it possibly can be. It was crafted with care by a detail-oriented fan using professional-grade equipment it looks and sounds like a REAL editor's cut. Because it IS one.
Like I said above, it's not one of a thousand dubs, either it's made straight from the finished materials I created. And I promise, you will NEVER find anything like this anywhere else! So bid early and bid often don't let this one-of-a-kind version pass you by!
Please feel free to e-mail me with questions or comments. Thanks for reading
and good luck!
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