| | | How can you destroy an army that's already dead?
Features: DVD, English, Spanish, Dolby Surround Sound, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
This campy tongue-in-cheek take on the sword-and-sorcery genre,with its amaxing f/x, will make you scream with fear andlaughter.
"Army Of Darkness clearly aims for the jocular, not the jugular." Richard Harrington, Washington Post
Editor's Note
Unassuming store clerk Ash (Bruce Campbell) is time-warped into England's Dark Ages, where he must find the Necronomicon, a compendium of the black arts, before he can return home. Fortunately, he has time to romance a beautiful princess and battle an army of skeletons. This is the inspired sequel to EVIL DEAD and EVIL DEAD 2.
Plot Summary
Through a magic spell, Ash, a modern-day discount-store employee, finds himself back in the middle ages. Given the key to return home by an alchemist, he bungles the incantation and, instead, releases the forces of darkness.| Now Ash has one job to do before transporting to the future: defeat the army of the evil dead... if they don't defeat him first.
| Features | Production Notes | | Audio: English, French Dolby Surround | | Subtitles: Spanish | | Widescreen Version | | Theatrical Trailer | | Talent Bios |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 8/22/2006 |
| Running Time: 81 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 20322 | | UPC: 00025192032226 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "Give me some sugar, baby." ---- Ash (BRUCE CAMPBELL) to his beloved (EMBETH DAVIDTZ). |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...A crisp, punchy look and an energetic style..." 02/19/1993 p.C10USA Today
"...Nifty special effects and funny verbal exchanges..." 02/19/1993 p.5D Entertainment Weekly
"...Campbell is a walking human cartoon, and it's fun to watch him drop insults in late-20th-century slang..." 03/05/1993 p.40-2 Total Film
"...[An] enjoyably silly sequel..." 10/01/2000 p.104 Empire
3 stars out of 5 -- "This medieval-set EVIL DEAD threequel is as good-natured a horror as you'll come across..." 11/01/2008 p.196 Entertainment Weekly
"Sam Raimi's sequel (of sorts) to the ditzy, daffy EVIL DEAD II is still a hoot 16 years later." -- Grade: B- 09/18/2009 Washington Post 9 of 10
Few American directors would dare to show as much over-the-top glee in their chosen craft as Sam Raimi does in Army of Darkness. A sequel to his Evil Dead cult classics, this was originally titled Medieval Dead, since its chain saw-wielding, dead-defying hero, Ash, has been swept back to the 14th century. That particular pun fell by the wayside, but its spirit survives in a script that clearly aims for the jocular, not the jugular. With the wisecracking Rambo of gore fighting off scores of Deadites, there's plenty of blood -- a geyser's worth at one point -- but nowhere close to the unrelenting flow of its predecessors. In any event, both genre fans and newcomers will be too busy laughing to be offended... Army of Darkness has clearly been made for a wider audience -- the title alone suggests that -- and Raimi wisely tempers his more intense instincts by focusing on the battle between Ash and his new Middle Aged pals and that army of skeletons and rotting corpses (its slogan is probably "Boo all that you can boo")... - Richard Harrington
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