It began with a short flashback about hero Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) who was being held captive in 1300 AD.Innkeeper: Borgo Pass?Englishman: Yes.Innkeeper: Whose carriage?Englishman: Count Dracula""s.Innkeeper: Count Dracula""s?Englishman: Yes.(The inkeeper""s wife superstitiously crosses herself.)Innkeeper: (fearfully) Castle Dracula?Englishman: Yes, that""s where I""m going.Innkeeper: To the castle?Englishman: Yes.Innkeeper: (tremulously) Nooo.You mustn""t go there.The passenger is cryptically warned by the innkeeper o abandon his trip until the next day, because deadly vampires appear between sunset and sunrise:We people of the mountains believe at the Castle here arevampires.To fight the flames and smother them, a blanket was tossed over them, but when removed, Freddy had disappeared, and nothing was left but Marge""s blackened, half-skeletal corpse(# 4 death)- which then sank into the fluid-like mattress and vanished.In the story set in mid-19th century New York City (1850s), the ""heiress"" was a mid-20s, plain, repressed, shy and virginal Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland)." Tjaden asks: "How could one country offend another? You mean there""s a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?" The soldier qualifies his answer: "Well, stupid.