Hail to the king, baby.
Three decades ago, Sam Raimi’s “Army of Darkness” was released in the U.S., capping the “Evil Dead” trilogy which grew from a low-budget cult hit into a horror-comedy mainstay with buckets of blood to spare.
You might remember it: Bruce Campbell’s Ash and his chainsaw arm, a literal blood geyser, Ray Harryhausen-esque stop-motion skeletons.
But your experience may vary, depending on which version of the movie you’ve seen.
With Lee Cronin’s upcoming franchise installment “Evil Dead Rise” on its way to theaters in April of 2023, it’s a good time to look back on Raimi’s 1993 cult hit, in all of its presentations.Picking up from “Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn,” the trilogy capper brings its splatstick out of cabin-in-the-woods territory and into a castle on a hill, taking a cue from the likes of Mark Twain.
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