World Famous Comics: Army of Darkness - Director's Cut
Army of Darkness - Director's Cut
Starring: Ian Abercrombie, Deke Anderson, Andy Bale, Billy Bryan, Bruce Campbell Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Limited Edition, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 25, 2000 Running Time: 81 minutes Theatrical Release Date: February 19, 1993
Description: Bound in human flesh, inked in blood, and amazingly hard to pronounce, the ancient "Necronomicon," or "Book of the Dead," transports a department store clerk and his '73 Oldsmobile into England's Dark Ages to face legions of undead beasts in director Sam Raimi's (A Simple Plan) outrageously hilarious sword-and-sorcery epic starring Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead).
I cant recommend this flick enough! After you see this movie, you will understand why there is a huge cult following ....I never knew "scary" could be so funny! LOVE BRUCE CAMPBELL!! LOVE THE WRITING in this movie! B grade special effects as times only makes it FUNNIER! Good stop motion skeletons and funny skeleton scenes!
Army of Darkness Sam Raimi's third installment to the Evil Dead franchise is bigger in scale. Obviously the bigger budget was an improvement needed from some of the cheesy effects used in the last two films. The same stylized cinematography remains in this film. But this film is differs from the other two. The first one is pure horror/gore film. The second although gory, was more of a stale spoof. This one takes the glory of the first film, and at moments where the second failed and succeeded.
Army of Darkness is a great clash of horror and comedy. And is recommended for fans of the franchise, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and even those who are fans of Tales of the Crypt. This version of the DVD includes both the Director's Cut and the Theatrical Cut. Even though the Director's Cut contains footage that was not either digitally re-mastered, or on that matter, fully processed from the original master, it is still interesting to see what didn't make in the original cut.
This is definitely recommended for any fans of the Evil Dead series
HD DVDs don't play on regular DVD players! We weren't told this in the product description--what a waste of money. You don't see the "WORKS ONLY ON HD DVD MACHINES" sticker on the cover as the seller removed it to hide that fact.
Horror Comedy at it's best Finally a dvd version depicting both the director's cut and theatrical versions of this fine film. It starts off as kind of sequel to Evil Dead 2, with Bruce Campbell's character Ash trapped in Medieval time after narrowly escaping with his life after fighting the deadites in Evil Dead 2. What follows is him being captured at first by the villagers, then helping the villagers to fight the deadites. Using his knowledge of 20th century weaponry and science makes him able to give the dead what for.
This is an alltime classic, hilarious scenes involving Ash's sheer ignorance towards vital instuctions, his confrontation with his evil self, and the last scene in the theatrical version at the s-mart.
Bruce Campbell as always is fun as the chainsaw/shotgun wielding hero, who is short on brains but makes up for it in bravery and skill; who uses quips and one liners on the deadites as well as force. Embeth Davidtz is really good and believable as Ash's medieval love interest.
The Director's Cut has a few additional scenes and an apocalyptic ending which will shock you and make you laugh at the same time.
The only other thing I can say about this movie is as Ash would put it "GROOVY".
Classic Horror Comedy Don't hesitate to buy this. So funny and ridiculous. Some of the best one liners in this
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