The Deadites were the best toys in my collection to use for a specific 'unused concept' reference.
Namely, the Berni Wrightson 'lost souls' sketch from the book Making Ghostbusters.
Many years ago, around 2008 or so, I bought several Army of Darkness two-packs on clearance at the Suncoast Video in Huntsville AL, mainly to use them as skeletons and zombies with my Indiana Jones collection.
As was usually the case for action figures from the now-defunct Palisades company-- which also made the wonderful Muppet Show line that I collect-- the Deadites were exquisitely sculpted and surprisingly poseable, but suffer from VERY fragile posts in the shoulders and hips.
Funnily enough, this worked to my advantage for this particular photo, because one of the 'zombies' had no legs anymore, which meant he was perfect for the one in the very front. The others were posed as closely to the Wrightson art as their articulation would allow.
This is actually two photos combined. It was difficult to get the front zombie and the rear skeleton in focus at the same time, so I put the camera on a tripod and took two photos with differing focal lengths, and then painted the focused foreground zombie onto the other pic where the other three were in focus. (I used this same trick on the Statue of Liberty photo a few weeks ago.)
Notice that the skeleton's arms are very rigid compared to the zombies. No elbow joint. I digitally repositioned his left arm, and then also decided to replace his right forearm with a flipped clone of the left, because the sculpt of the left hand more closely evoked the despairing gesture seen in the Wrightson sketch.
Alex