event Midnight Madness: Army Of Darkness

The cult classics Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 were models of no-budget, down-and-dirty genre filmmaking, and their homemade quality was a large part of their splat-stick charm. So when major studio Universal commissioned director Sam Raimi to conclude the trilogy with 1992’s Army Of Darkness, there was a danger that the higher production values could prove to be a negative. Fortunately, the extra money just gave Raimi a bigger toybox for what may be the grandest tribute to stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen ever created. Bruce Campbell returns to the role of Ash, this time transported from the present-day (along with his shotgun, car, and chainsaw) to the year 1300 AD, where he goes off on a mission to retrieve the Necronomicon in order to rid a kingdom of evil, but winds up unleashing an army of the dead instead.

The cult classics Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 were models of no-budget, down-and-dirty genre filmmaking, and their homemade quality was a large part of their splat-stick charm. So when major studio Universal commissioned director Sam Raimi to conclude the trilogy with 1992’s Army Of Darkness, there was a danger that the higher production values could prove to be a negative. Fortunately, the extra money just gave Raimi a bigger toybox for what may be the grandest tribute to stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen ever created. Bruce Campbell returns to the role of Ash, this time transported from the present-day (along with his shotgun, car, and chainsaw) to the year 1300 AD, where he goes off on a mission to retrieve the Necronomicon in order to rid a kingdom of evil, but winds up unleashing an army of the dead instead.