![]() It could have just been a cabin in medieval Europe, but that wasn't enough this time. Still, it's worth noting that Army of Darkness could have played things safe, as evidenced by the sequences in the film when Ash is trapped alone with demonic presences like, for example, miniature versions of himself, or a graveyard full of angry skeletons trying to poke out his eyes. Instead, Raimi and his brother Ivan crafted a script that made good on the promise of the previous film, catapulting Ash ( Bruce Campbell and his legendary chin) into the distant past for a different kind of adventure. It would have been easy for Raimi and his team to return for an Evil Dead III that did much the same thing, with a few new flourishes and shifts that would have certainly found their own fandom. ![]() ![]() It's been 30 years since the film first arrived in front of audiences, and it remains an extraordinarily gleeful experience full of unforgettable, wild moments of invention.Įvil Dead II, most fans know, builds on the premise of Evil Dead with a bigger budget and a bigger story, but keeps the cabin-in-the-woods premise in place. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Army of Darkness, Raimi's 1992 capper to the Evil Dead trilogy which took all the goopy visual effects of the first film, and all the horror-comedy of the second, and blew them both up into a dark fantasy extravaganza full of visual gags, over-the-top performances, and pure Raimi delight. Even when the films don't always shine at their brightest, Raimi's joy for the very craft of cinema is there. ![]() But above all of those other qualities, it's the joy in Raimi's films that stands out, no matter the budget or the subject matter or the time and place in which he's working. We talk about his acrobatic camerawork, his fondness for old-school transitions and visual effects techniques, and of course the madcap humor that infuses most of his movies, even when things get dark. There are other words to describe him, of course, and many have been used over the course of a career that now spans more than four decades. ![]()
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