Army of Darkness (1993)

"Alright, you primitive screwheads, listen up...this is my boom stick!"

"Shop smart--shop S-Mart!"

energetic, rollicking B movie fearless filmmaking in a genre vein

written by Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi

light-hearted allusions The Day the Earth Stood Still, "Klaatu barada nikto"), The Adventures of Robin Hood, Gulliver's Travels, Harryhausen, three Stooges, Tex Avery cartoons

Bridget Fonda Ted Raimi

Danny Elfman contributes a "March of the Dead" theme

wild cinematography by Bill Pope, signature "flying" camera

mminiature "Ash"es jumping out of shards of broken mirror

ancient Sumerian text Necromonicon Ex Mortis (The Book of the Dead)

"The Promised One"

splatstick

begins manic and gets crazier as it goes

some effects were cheesy even for the time, but

KNB Effects Group stop-motion animation, prosthetic makeup, puppets, rear-screen projection, intravision

1300

the Deadites

Sheila (Embeth Davidtz)

Ian Abercrombie

smartass

chainsaw

gets a "groovy" new iron-clad hand

at one point, a geyser of blood

Raimi shows comic timing, as in a pan back to Ash's reaction after watching a guy fall to the doom in store for him