Sam Raimi's "Army of Darkness" is a goofy, hyperventilated send-up of horror films and medieval warfare, so action-packed it sometimes seems less like a movie than like a cardiovascular workout for its stars. Dropped into the middle ages, Ash must find his inner hero to battle the Army of Darkness. A large push towards comedy and an abandonment of the extreme.
It follows the character of Ashley (Ash) J. Williams in his journey to the past that is far better explained in Evil Dead II. He is only able to be sent back to his own time (and his job at S Mart).
Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness delivers a great conclusion to what is one of the most unique trilogies in cinema history, providing a ton of laughs and plenty of exciting action in the process. Army of Darkness (titled onscreen as Bruce Campbell vs. The Evil Dead trilogy is another of my all time favorites even though they had an extremely tight budget with each horror movie. The movie is actually the last part of a series. store worked who accidentally ends up traveling back in time and being forced to save an entire village from destruction. Ash is transported back to Medieval Europe, where he finds out he can Ash manages to find the book, but when he inevitably screws up the retrieval, he's forced to train and help the not-so-peaceful villagers he's placed in the. Check out the exclusive TVGuide.com movie review and see our movie rating for Army Of Darkness.
Trailer Army of Darkness
The movie opens with a brief prologue outlining the events of EVIL DEAD and EVIL DEAD II, the latter of which left our clumsy hero, Ash (Bruce Campbell), stranded in the Middle Ages. Wiseman - One of the worst things about the dark ages is that the world was filled with all sorts of evil spirits, fantastic monsters, and eldritch magic. This phrasing was Sam Raimi's homage to the defunct Hollywood tradition of putting stars' names in movie titles (like Abbott and Costello Meet.
A corny movie, Army of Darkness was a wild and weird ride of cinema that one of my friends mentioned and I finally decided to see what the hubbub was about. Ash, hero from Evil Dead, is back but is somehow trapped in Arthurian times and the only way for him to get back is to get a. 'Army of Darkness' didn't feel like a horror movie at all i'd say. It's super silly, it's action packed and has a few funny moments. This cardboard comic book fantasy has plenty of in-jokes for the discerning horror buff but little actual horror, while the second half of the movie is nothing more than an endless battle full of interminable head-banging and skull-smashing.