World Famous Comics: Army of Darkness (Boomstick Edition)
Army of Darkness (Boomstick Edition)
Starring: Ian Abercrombie, Deke Anderson, Andy Bale, Billy Bryan, Bruce Campbell Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Number of Items: 2 Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 11, 2003 Running Time: 81 minutes Theatrical Release Date: February 19, 1993
Description: Two Discs Of Mind-Blowing Mayhem From The Director Of THE EVIL DEAD And SPIDER-MAN! The one and only Bruce Campbell stars as Ash, a hapless housewares clerk time-warped back to the Dark Ages by the demonic power of the Necronomicon. Now armed with only a '73 Oldsmobile, his trusty chainsaw and a 12-gauge double-barreled S-Mart shotgun, our knuckleheaded hero must battle vicious she-bitches, a diabolical Evil Ash and the relentless hordes of the medieval dead in the most outrageously spectacular horror comedy every made. Get ready for some sugar, baby: This is ARMY OF DARKNESS - THE BOOMSTICK EDITION! By overwhelming fan demand, this groovy double-disc set presents the U.S. Theatrical Version complete with its notorious original ending and the Director's Cut with over 15 minutes of additional footage. There's also deleted scenes, a wild audio commentary with Bruce Campbell, writer/director Sam Raimi and co-writer Ivan Raimi, an exclusive featurette, storyboards and much more. So listen up, you primitive screwheads: This is ARMY OF DARKNESS like you've never seen it before! Includes an 8-Page Collector's Booklet with all-new liner notes by star Bruce Campbell
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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