Wild, silly, laugh out loud funny

Rating: 9/10 (10 September 1999)

The first two "Evil Dead" movies contained far too much gore and were basically Dead Teenager horror movies with a bit more stylistic verve to them. The third, "Army of Darkness", was a magnificent departure into fantasy and humor. S-Mart employee (Bruce Campbell) gets sent back through time to Merlinesque days while wearing a chainsaw prosthetic on his severed hand and packing a shotgun, and does battle against a monster, a zillion little Lilipution versions of himself, an evil twin, and an army of skeletons. Many esotericisms, including one from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" which gets him in deep trouble. Wild, silly, laugh out loud funny, and the best thing I've ever seen Bruce Campbell do, and I've enjoyed him as a character actor ever since he was in "Crimewave" in 1985 (written by the Coen Brothers and directed by Sam Raimi).