Some films are connected in ways a casual observer could not possibly fathom.
Hollywood is a massive labyrinth of deals, of complex contracts, and of vaguely interconnected equity that can link two seemingly random film projects that couldn’t be more different. That was certainly the case with Jonathan Demme’s Academy Award-winning film “The Silence of the Lambs” and Sam Raimi’s hyperkinetic shlock horror/comedy “Army of Darkness,” each of them classics in their own right, but not exactly a natural double feature.
Their connection has to do with some odd financial withholding from Universal, the 1986 film “Manhunter,” a kind-of-prequel to “Lambs,” and who gets to make movies…The post Hannibal Lecter Caused Major Headaches For Army Of Darkness appeared first on /Film.
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