Army of Darkness [HD DVD] | ![Army of Darkness [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rWkJnEYwL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Grove
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  629 reviews
Sales Rank: 7198
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 81 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: HD61101612
UPC: 025195013130
EAN: 0025195013130
ASIN: B000P0J05G
Theatrical Release Date: February 19, 1993
Release Date: June 26, 2007
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A movie that only true horror buffs could love, Army of Darkness 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 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. 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 Jason and the Argonauts. The frantic action is fun while it lasts, but even at 80 minutes Army of Darkness 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. --Jeff Shannon
Description
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 (Darkman) 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? Overflowing with spectacular special effects, Army of Darkness will make you scream with fear and laughter. In the words of The Washington Post, it's "drop-dead fun"!
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 Listen up you screw heads March 9, 2010
L. Gaulin (ATX)
This is my BOOM stick! If you haven't seen any of the evil dead or army of darkness i feel sorry for you. This cult classic is well worth owning.
 The 3,000 Stooges gone medieval March 7, 2010
The Concise Critic: (New England)
Silly--which is not to say bad--American fluff. The Army of the Dead (really skeletons of The Three (thousand) Stooges complete with eye-pokes and other Stooge slapstick) try to defeat the medieval forces of good. They are doomed, of course, because those forces are led by a handsome American stud whose face is cut just right and who happens to have, in these middle ages, a durable chainsaw, a big gun, and a hot car. Charms the chastity belt right off the castle hottie and slaps the smiles right on the open-minded film viewer.
 Poor HD February 28, 2010
R. Kennedy (Castle Rock, CO United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying that I love this movie - I am not rating the movie itself poorly. Trying to watch the Blu Ray 'Screwhead Edition' gives me a headache, though. Didn't anyone watch this oversharpened mess before they published it? It's as if they turned the contrast all of the way up, and called it good. Chainmail alternately disappears, and blinds as every link become a brilliant shining white - Same with BC's hair, sometimes it's dark, other times it looks white. Occasionally the picture gets so grainy that if you didn't know better, you'd think that it was a stylized flashback scene. I'm sorry I put out the extra money to buy this version - my regular old school dvd (and honestly, even my vhs version) look better than this. It's a trick, get an axe!
 Gimme some sugar baby! February 2, 2010
M. Bahnson (Portland, TN USA)
Wow. Memories! The screwhead edition offers some special features that were not availbile in previous releases. Same great movie, new polished look.
Bruce Campbell, a boomstick and a chainsaw.... Need I say more? January 9, 2010
JT (Odessa)
By most standards this final entry into the Evil Dead Triology is the lowest. But you can't overlook the films hilarious moments. Come on, who doesn't love Bruce Campbell's Slapstick mayhem, even if Sam Raimi is filming his torment for our pleasure.
I love this film as campy as it is, even if some of the versions of the film aren't their best looking. The plot may not make sense and the slapstick mayhem may wear on people's nerves, but it's the final battle sequence that makes the film for me.
Chock full of Sam Raimi's inventive camerawork, the gadget-building montages will make any gearhead sit up in wonder. I especially love that steam-powered truck near the end, with the big propeller blade on the front mowing through an army of rubber skeletons. Yeah, it's on my wishlist for next Christmas along with the Dead Reckoning, lol.
Even when Bruce Campbell is fighting against his evil-possesed self, the one-liners like "I'll spoil those good looks" since evil version is ugly as sin and "Backstabber!" when the Evil Ash tears the sword from his back keep coming.
The special effects are relatively tame and dated compared to today's CG blockbusters. Fans of classics like "Clash of the Titans" and "Jason and Argonauts" (this one included:))will enjoy the stop-motion skeleton battle a la Ray Harryhausen. Even so the newly-budding KNB (Kurtzman, Nicotero, and Berger) effects group, responsible for the masterful effects of "Chronicles of Narnia"," The Mist" and the zombies of "Land of the Dead" among many other films, shows their incredible standard of cartoony yet horrifically real monsters.
In all, I recommend this film for any fan of Evil Dead or Bruce Campbell. It's definitely worth it.
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