Army of Darkness

Name: Army of Darkness
Released: 1993-2-19
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Bridget Fonda, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie

Army of Darkness

R
1h 20m
1993

74%

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Bound in human flesh, inked in blood - and amazingly hard to pronounce - the ancient "Necronomicon" (Book of the Dead) unleashes unspeakable evil upon mankind in director Sam Raimi's (Spider-Man) outrageously hilarious sword-and-sorcery epic. Back to do battle with the hideous "Deadites," Bruce Campbell reprises his role from the Evil Dead series as Ash, the handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk from S-Mart's housewares division. Demonic forces time warp him - and his '73 Oldsmobile - into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty (Embeth Davidtz) and faces legions of undead beasts, including a ghastly army of skeletons. Can Ash save the living from the dead, rescue his girlfriend and get back to his own time?

Director:

Sam Raimi

Producer:

Robert Tapert, Dino De Laurentiis

Writer:

Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi

Cast:

Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Bridget Fonda, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Grove, Michael Earl Reid, Timothy Patrick Quill

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

74%

Critics Consensus: Army of Darkness is a madcap adventure worth taking thanks to Bruce Campbell's hammy charm and Sam Raimi's acrobatic direction, although an intentional lack of shocks make this a discordant capper to the Evil Dead franchise.

Reviews

Slant Magazine

Jake Cole

The demented madcap of Army of Darkness marked Sam Raimi’s true entrance into Hollywood-sized filmmaking.

Broad slapstick humor, innumerable references to other films, and above all, Campbell’s presence as a physical comedian and sarcastic jerk single out Army of Darkness as a unique experience from its predecessors.

The movie's insistence on pushing horror to the side in favor of sheer goofiness was a risk, though, and perhaps that's why Army of Darkness is more of a cult classic.

Hilarious and unexpectedly adventurous, this horror/comedy is like Indiana Jones meets Sinbad in the three worlds of Gulliver.

The climactic battle between the living and the dead that closes the picture is well done yet disappointingly lacking in thrills...

June 25, 2017

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