* * * (three stars)

Rating: 9/10 (27 January 1999)

The third movie in the Evil Dead series, Army of Darkness doesn't quite live up to its predecessor, but is a very good movie in its own right. Sucked into the past after the events of the movie, Evil Dead II, Ash finds himself in Arthurian England. In the midst of a war between two kings, Arthus and Henry the Red, Ash is mistaken for one of Henry's vassals by Arthur. He eventually proves that he is not one, and that he has technology superior to either side in the form of his Boom Stick. He then must find the Necronomicon in order to return to his own time. A hilarious movie in many ways, but in no way a horror film, Army of Darkness deviates far from the Evil Dead series. Bruce Campbell does a wonderful job as the ever tortured, and ever egotistical Ash. The special effects are quite good, except for the matting jobs in some parts... they are the worst I have ever seen.