Answerer

So, I come to the conclusion that most of you are damn certain that this particular book is a just another stupid fiction by a bored guy.

I wonder how many people actually put their faith in this book?


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squiddy

Uh..... that's the way I remember it ....

Ash: Lady, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask you to leave the store.

Deadite: Who the hell are you?

Ash: Name's Ash... ... housewares.

Deadite: I'll swallow your soul.

Ash: Come get some.

Ash: (Voice Over) Sure I could've stayed in the past. Could've even been king. But in my own way, I am king.

Ash: Hail to the king baby.

Scrambles

squiddy,

I meant that he should've engineered the final (painfully cheesy) battle (cf. "Ha!! Hoo!! Ha!!! YA!!) so that both sides were totally fucked and get his revenge on the stupid turd of a movie.

Twas good up untill the point when he has an attack of conscience when the chick was kidnapped by the flying thing.



Scrambles

jess

I think the copyright date leads to that conclusion pretty solidly.

Desiderata was also a modern work, in case you didn't know.

nogods4me

Yep, just like the bible.

Eudaimonist

Do you mean my dusty old human-hide bound copy that's written in ancient Arabic isn't the real Necronomicon? I guess I'll have to send that Dimensional Shambler back now... I can't stand imitation Shamblers. What a ripoff!

Friar Bellows

You fools! The Necronomicon (aka Al Azif) is as real as the stench of the Deep Ones which reside in the black abysses of Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei. Surely you've heard of that mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, who in 738AD was set upon by an invisible entity which devoured him in broad daylight? It was he who penned this monstrous book, later translated into Latin by the odious monk, Olaus Wormius.

But I urge you not to read the book. My good friend Robert Blake did so and he was never again the same, right up to his horrible, unexplained death. Here are his last diary entries:

Azathoth

Well,now.You have quite the taste in friends,Friar Bellows.Or at least,your friends have quite the taste,so I hear.

Mind you,the Necronomicon does have the added benefit of causing misfortune upon those who read it,but it wasn't that particular item which caused the events of that night to take place.Blake got to look into the Trapezohedron,and he recieved the knowlege,which he he paid the price for.

Of course Nyarlathhotep may have had some small part in his finding the stone,in the first place





Ok,seriously.The Necronomicon is complete and utter fiction.It was invented by Lovecraft as a prop for his stories,along with a variety of other strange sounding places and items.

The book that you're referring to,has to be the simon edition.This book is filled with a bunch of pseudo Sumerian and Babylonian nonsense that the author tries to connect to the Mythos.Over the prevailing years,since it was published in the 1970's,it has actually been used as a guide by people for doing "magic'.The people doing so,have bought into the fake stories that have been circulated.

There are others,but that one is the one that usually gets brought up.

Personally,other than Derlith's work,that book is one of the stupidest pieces of Lovecraft-inspired writing that I've seen.It in no way represents what the real Necronomicon would look like.For that,those very quick scenes from the Evil Dead movies,of the book's pages,would be far better representations.

It is a fascinating example of how a group of people can be taken in by a created set of stories,or myths in such a short time,and how they'll defend those stories and myths,even when they are shown that they are irrational.

Yes,very much like the Bible.

Jesse

You mean you wanted the movie to be a sort of postmodern meta-joke where the hero knows he's trapped in a cheesy movie? I don't know, I think that joke would get old pretty fast...even in the early part of the movie where he was pissed off at everyone, I don't think the point was supposed to be that he was all self-aware about being in a B-movie (or else he wouldn't be uttering so many comic book type lines himself!) The movie itself was obviously pretty self-aware, but the character wasn't particularly.

Have you seen the earlier Evil Dead movies that Army of Darkness was a sequel to? Army of Darkness is my favorite but the second movie sort of sets the tone for it (and the backstory about the Necronomicon).

Jesse

Have you guys seen this series of Lovecraft-inspired responses to one of those "Nigerian businessman" email scams?

http://www.geocities.com/steerp1ke/David_Ehi.html