Army of Darkness

Buy This Item Army of Darkness by Universal Studios  Available from Amazon  $9.49  on 11-28-2008     A movie that only true horror buffs could love, <I>Army of Darkness</I> is officially part 3 in the wild and wacky Evil Dead trilogy masterminded by the perversely inventive director Sam Raimi, who would later serve as executive producer of the popular syndicated TV series <I>Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.</I> Raimi's favorite actor, Bruce Campbell, returns as Ash (hero of the first two Evil Dead flicks), a hardware-store clerk who is magically transported--along with his beat-up Oldsmobile and a chainsaw attachment for his severed left forearm--to the brutal battlefields of the 14th century. He quickly assumes power (who else in the Middle Ages packs a shotgun and a chainsaw?), and unites his band of medieval knights against the dreaded Army of the Dead. Raimi gleefully subverts almost every horror-movie cliché as he serves up a nonstop parade of blood, gore, and vicious sword-bearing skeletons--an affectionate homage to animator Ray Harryhausen's classic <I>Jason and the Argonauts</I>. The frantic action is fun while it lasts, but even at 80 minutes <I>Army of Darkness</I> nearly wears out its welcome. You know that Raimi can maintain the mayhem for only so long before it grows tiresome, and fortunately this madcap movie quits while it's ahead. <i>--Jeff Shannon</i> Reader Reviews This movie was so bad I had to buy it. Once you see it you'll never forget it. I am a fan of H.P. Lovecraft and this movie puts all of his frightening paranoia into it's proper perspective. This is a really funny movie as the hero takes himself way too seriously and puts himself in peril because in peril is where he wanted to be in the first place.

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