Yes that’s right folks! After months of reading the blog site by The Movie Whore and learning much about the legendary Bruce Campbell, I finally sat my arse down and watched Army of Darkness. Actually I lucked out, upon sitting down on my couch after a hard days work and flipping through the channels, I stumbled across the movie. What are the chances? Anyway I must say that the movie was far better than I could have expected.
I like bad movies! You can pretty much throw anything at me and I’ll watch it. I am also a sucker for action packed movies, such as The Rock and Independence Day. Regardless, as a kid, I always stayed away from scary movies or movies that sounded scary. I attribute this fear to my ignorance of movies with scary titles, such as The Evil Dead or Army of Darkness.
As far as Bruce Campbell goes, I really had never known who this guy was until The Dudes Dad referenced him in his earlier blogs. As for the movie, Army of Darkness, I thoroughly enjoyed this film. The movie had a good enough story with the main character, Ash, defying all odds to find a way back to his own world. Armed with a shotgun and a chainsaw in place of his right hand, Ash kicks demon butt and recovers the Book of the Dead. He then leads the humans from a medieval time against an army of skeleton warriors equipped with magic. Don’t get me wrong, the special effects weren’t the greatest nor was the acting overall, but the thing that made me a fan was hands down the one-liners and zingers Campbell said. I found out afterward that Army of Darkness is considered the 3rd installment of the The Evil Dead series. The Evil Dead movies are without a doubt next on my list to watch.
Most people probably have seen this movie, but if you are as lame as me and have not seen it yet. Watch it! If you have a sense of humor and enjoy action movies then I highly suggest you see this movie.
Image Used In This Post
Army of Darkness image courtesy of Flickr user Simon Zirkunow published under the CC license.
6 Comments
Thanks for the credit in recommending this one.
I am glad you liked it. I am always spouting of about these cult classic flicks that never made in the mainstream and this one of the better of examples of why cult classics are classics.
After you watch the other 2 then you will be on your way to becoming a first class movie whore yourself.
No problem Jim, like I said if we didn’t have a 1st class movie whore like yourself in our midst I would most likely have never even watched it. As for me, I think I have a lot of work to do before I can be considered a 1st Class movie whore.
But like your other social affiliations, you can certainly be considered second class!
You just have to realize it took me nearly 30 years to get to this point. Don’t worry just start hitting up the video store on a regular basis and watch the flicks I through on my lists.
If you are still iffy on scary movies you might want to skip the first. Its really Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness that are the best.
Thanks for the info Billy. Army of Darkness was definitely entertaining…..I still have to rent Evil Dead II….but I am liking scary movies a little more and more every day…although I just saw the Strangers the other day….and that was complete garbage!