Jay just casually catching AND recognizing that DNA stock footage is the most Jay-ass shit. I love it.

Steven Spielberg: “I’m doing a movie about the holocaust. I need a good lead. Get me that guy from Darkman!”

Sam Raimi would be perfect for a Re:View ranking like John Carpenter. Would love to see it.

"How did Indiana Jones' satchel get hooked on the tank barrel?" This question is clearly asked by men because every woman has had the experience of their purse strap inexplicably getting caught or tangled in something that seemed almost impossible.

I live for the moments of Rich Evans lore that are sprinkled among tiny cinematography courses

i can't die until i learn all of the deep rich evans lore

My aunt was dating Ivan Raimi when they made this movie. I was 9 or 10 at the time. She has a cameo as a nurse in the hospital scene. I ended up with one of the earlier drafts of the script and I remember thinking how different it was from the final version. There was a scene where Darkman is chasing Durant down a subway tunnel and that's where he ended up getting killed. A little later on I got to meet Sam at my aunt's graduation party (her and Ivan were in med school). Sam even asked my dad to be an extra in Army of Darkness. It would have been cool if he could have afforded to do that.

Imagine being a burnt hobo and immediately given high tech medical help. Darkman knew his bill would be astronomical, so he escaped from the hospital.

I’d love to see RLM do a Sam Raimi ranking like they did for John Carpenter

Warner: "sorry Raimi, we want Tim Burton to direct Batman" Sam: "I'll make my own Batman, with blackjack and hookers!"

The whole "scientist gets his lab blown up by bad guys and goes flying out, and then turns into a hideous monstrosity that alienates him from his love interest" trope is also straight out of Swamp Thing. It's Alec Holland's backstory.

One of the lines that always stuck with me from this film was the over-the-top "JULIE!" To this day, I can't meet someone named Julie without wanting to yell her name like Darkman. Finding out that this was Bruce Campbell's voice explains everything.

I really like how the re:Views episodes are becoming 45 minutes of "Hey! did you know that...?" which is amazing for my trivia-filled brain.

My older brother won a Darkman poster in a Super Mario Bros 3 tournament at a mall. Surely there has never been a greater prize.

The original title for Army Of Darkness was The Medieval Dead (I believe), a great play on the words, much better title.

I remember watching the "This is Horror" documentary when I was a kid, and in the segment with Sam Raimi he talked about the 3 requirements in horror. One of which is that "the innocent Must suffer." That's why Ash, Darkman and even Spiderman have to go through hell first before they can be ready to persevere. Over 30 years later and that line still sticks with me.

The "evil city planner" theme is probably inspired by the real life character Robert Moses, the most powerful unelected public official in history. He knocked down some of New York's most beautiful old buildings, cut trenches through the city and razed entire neighbourhoods for his building plans. He held 12 official titles at once and ruled the physical structure of the city for decades.

Rich Evans is the King Diamond of film critics. His falsetto is unpredictable, yet always dependably perfectly timed!

"Dark City" is a great example of a villain creating a city as they see fit

Bruce Campbell is a great and under appreciated actor. I remember Brisco County Jr. being one of the coolest cowboy ever!

16:00 It's funny they mention this shot in Darkman because there's an extremely similar shot in the first Spider-Man when Spidey is repeatedly forcing Uncle Ben's killer's head through the different glass panels of a big window. Exact same framing, and I think it even pans from left to right.

The reason villains were City Builders, As was told to Lex by his dad “Son, stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good, but they will always need land and they’ll pay through the nose to get it! Remember that."

Also, the comics went into detail that in his coma, he could hear the doctors were laughing at him and his condition and the anger at that is what wakes him up. It's the rude nurse, who was also the nurse in American Werwolf and Jessica 6 from Logan's Run, that triggers his rage.

I ran into the Rami's a lot... even in Silverlake. They had a nice house. Once, when Sam Spiegel and Ted were editing at our off-line facility, I challenged them on "Darkman" and how much John Woo had influenced parts of it. At the time, John Woo's early films were available on Chinese bootlegs the "geeks" had access to. Ted straight up told me to watch out because they were going to bring John Woo to America. Some time later I got a poster in the mail for "Hard Target" with Jean Claude Van Damme and signed at the bottom were the words... "Told you."

The ally scene in Spider-man was shot on the Warner Brother's lot, so the fact that the woodpecker is there means it had to be 100% planned.

One of our favourite totally out of context quotes to say as kids was “Take the f**king elephant!!”

"I am no-one, I am everyone, I am Darkman!" One of my all-time favorite movies.

I just realized what the PERFECT Coen Bros. movie would be for Re:View: The Hudsucker Proxy. I love how this show usually chooses underrated and under-seen movies to introduce to film fans and Hudsucker certainly fits the bill. (Plus it was co-written by Raimi and features Bruce Campbell). One of my favorites as a teenager and more people need to see it!

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. was one of the wildest TV shows of it's time. A Western comedy with sci-fi and occult elements, a great supporting cast, awesome villain and Bruce Cambell in the lead.

Rich and Jay re:View? Truly we are blessed this day.

I loved this movie when I was a child, it is still great. Here in Portugal we call it "Faceless Revenge"

genuinely shocked how Sam Raimi the new Doctor Strange movie ended up being. His style ended up really elevating material that would have fell flat on its face without it.

One of the cool details in Darkman is the subtle makeup they put on the actors when they are playing Darkman with his synthetic skin. It's slightly unsettling. They also sometimes put contact lenses on the actors so their eyes would look more like Neeson's, which makes sense because Darkman would have no way of changing his eye color.

Even though I've seen it a billion times, that dumb Three Stooges eye-poking bit in Army of Darkness with Ash and the skeletons never ceases to make me laugh.

I remember seeing Darkman on my aunts movie shelf, and not being allowed to watch it. Keep in mind, me and my brother were subject to every horror movie my aunt had in her collection. Shes only 5 years older than us so she spent a lot of time sharing her interests with the younger kids. So for years when she babysat us, we were forced to endure visuals far beyond what any 6 year old should have ever seen. I think I saw all the slashers, body horror, video nasties and a ton of bootleg gore porn before I turned 10. So fast forward and I was in my teens, and I finally think I am ready for the obviously banned movie my aunt kept from us. I put in Darkman, and was bewildered why she would forbid us from watching it. I loved it, it was silly and fun. Upon finding out I had gone and watched her least favorite film of her childhood, she would reveal it was not scary enough for her tastes. Figures.

The bromance between Bruce and Sam is incredible

My favourite Bruce Campbell cameo. Me and a friend spent the whole film waiting and couldn't stop laughing when it happened.

You know what I realised about this channel earlier that makes me love it even more. It's not sponsored by anyone! The one thing about KZfaq now is that even if you pay for KZfaq premium you still have to put up with endless sponsorships read out by the hosts. You guys at RLM rock for not getting involved in sponsorship!

Army of Darkness is solid gold and no one can convince me otherwise.

I remember when the Sci-fi Channel used to show all three movies, back to back, all the time. Man I'm gettin old.

I saw an interview with a dude who survived nightmarishly horrific burns and he literally has no lips. He's able to enunciate surprisingly well, but it's probably after years of speech therapy.

We went to see it at a run down theatre in England--smokes and a pint or five. That night, and for the next week, we could not stop quoting this movie at every University lecture. Drove our profs nuts. So much fun.

Finally!! A reason to use this quote. "See the dancing freak, just $5 bucks, see the dancing freak" Saw this in theaters when I was a kid.

I love the entire RLM gang but man, Rich Evans is a goddamned national treasure.

Rich Evans enjoying Oingo Boingo is honestly a shock. I honestly would love to hear the RLM guys talk about music and sound design for movies!

"I Want The Pink ELEPHANT!' The greatest Darkman scene of all time.

This video was uploaded at the perfect time for me. It was just over a week after my mom passed away, and she was the one who introduced me to Darkman when she randomly rented it for me in 1992 when I was 5 - too young, I know, but it was a different time back then and just about anything superhero-y was fair game for kids at that time. Anyway, I remember being enthralled by the look, feel, and humor in this movie as I watched it countless times growing up (not to mention gaining a love of Sam Raimi), and it’s possible I never would’ve seen it if it weren’t for her. Thank you for this video, RLM🤘🏼

Love the recent slate of movies for "re:View" (even the Picard roasting episodes). I would love to see the guys review "The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension." Totally odd and original sci-fi/action movie from 1984 starring Peter Weller, Christopher Lloyd, John Lithgow and the inimitable Jeff Goldblum. Here's hoping we see it soon!

3:20 To be fair, Spider-Man 2 acknowledges the inherent silliness too - Jonah Jameson makes a crack about how "a guy named OTTO OCTAVIUS winds up with 8 limbs - what are the odds?" It was a little more subtle, though.

I literally clapped at Rich’s LAST CRUSADE satchel reference a split second after I mentally referenced the same scene. That always drove me bananas.

Love, love, love "Darkman." Always have. A masterpiece. Funny as hell. Just introduced it to my fifteen-year-old son, and he loved it, too.

The spiderman 2 doc oc scene genuinely scared a young me and my brother to the point my dad had to pause the movie and we came back to it later before the rental needed to be returned. Rami's horror background clearly shown through there.

Rich’s idea of the comic book tone is perfect. That’s why I love comics, always have and always will. While I appreciate the MCU the original Spider-Man films are so special and unique and Spider-Man 2 has yet to be topped. Fingers crossed Doctor Strange 2 shows off Sam’s creativity.

Some article asked Sam Rami why he got into Dr. Strange 2: 1) "I wonder if i could still do it [...] Well, that's reason enough" 2) "I really liked the character of Doctor Strange" 3) Rami liked the first movie and felt they left the character in a great place 4) And obviously a shit-ton of money

I don't think I've ever laughed as hard at anything as I did at that scene where Liam Neeson is blown up and launched from his lab.

I can't believe we had to wait a whole year for a raising arizona re:view

I watched this when i was a kid, the finger chopping with a cigar cutter was terrifying

The climax to this movie shows why Raimi was such a great pick for the first Spider-Man movie.

Army of darkness is one of my favorite movies. The jump into the air where the chainsaw clicks into place on his stump was just BEAUTIFUL.

This video really makes me hope Sam Rami goes all out in Dr Strange XD

I have to admit I've been loving the Jay & Rich combo for re:View here lately. They have very different tastes which makes for good discussion.

"like a comic book" is exactly how everyone I know who have seen it, including myself, describes this movie. Comic booky, but in a pre-marvel, very 90s way.

I love this move. Larry Drake, RIP, was frigging awesome. Such a great villain. If you haven't seen it, watch Dr Giggles!

great vid as always, but rich was smoking crack with that Spider-Man theme song take. to me, elfman’s theme perfectly matches spidey’s character and very obviously influenced the themes for every future movie past raimi’s run and even into other media such as the video games!

40:35 Bob Murawski confirms the re-editing story on the latest blu-ray, but it's a bit different. Him and Sam went in *after* Universal locked the final cut, and edited throughout that one night while the place was closed, then replacing the Universal cut with theirs in the morning without telling anyone. Which, to me, explains a flub like "I just... I just need a little time" being used twice.

Darkman! This is the first movie where I really noticed a director's style. I was 9 or 10 and I was like this looks and feels just like Spiderman! Which then led me to discover Evil Dead and the rest is history.

I watched this as a 12-year-old at a birthday party sleepover. Since we were - at best - okay in English, all of the weird and quirky stuff went way over our heads and we thought it was a horror movie. It didn't help that were left home alone for the evening and that a framed painting randomly fell off the wall while we watched it. I'll have to rewatch it.

I loved that film when I was younger. The "take the fucking elephant" scene and the scene where he's on a cable hanging from a helicopter being pulled through traffic and he runs comic style over the top of it whilst delivering that perfect "uhuhuhuuh" panic voice? Brilliant. It even cuts to his feet running in a blur like in the Saturday morning cartoons. How Raimi managed scenes like that, which honestly had me laughing, to brutally violent scenes and somehow have it work as a cohesive whole is great. The tone was consistently from the POV of Darkman, one of anger and madness, even kooky madness.

Awesome. In my high school video class I used the soundtrack for Darkman as the theme for my own film called "Invisible Vengence" about an invisible kid on the loose at school causing havoc. I didn't know what I was doing, so all it amounted to was some shots of kids acting like they were getting pushed by an invisible person. Riveting!

What a coincidence I watched Darkman for the first time today a few hours ago, and you release this Wonderful All according to plan

I have hope that MoM will be Rami's vision, it's the first MCU movie with the director's name in the marketing of the movie and from what I recall hearing is that he's calling the shots on everything including reshoots. So knock on wood that it's a fun movie because I'm really looking forward to what this has to offer. If he's happy working with Marvel I would really love to see him oversee how the more supernatural stuff like Blade, the next Ghost Rider, or even Man-Thing and Werewolf by Midnight plays out.

Danny Elfman also did the Fable theme, though Russel Shaw was responsible for the rest of the soundtrack. Both of them did a terrific job.

Lot of corporations (or people behind corporations) have a tendency to want to make the perfect city. The best example is Hershey. The most common examples are the mining towns made and run by mining corporations. Samsung has its own city as well. This phenomenon is almost everywhere where corporations can run amok.

I would LOVE to see a Re:View of Raising Arizona with Rich and Jay

I think Jay and Rich together (sans Mike) is my favorite combo on RLM. Much as I like Mike and Rich nerding out over Star Trek, I think this combo is the best for lovers of film. Mike and Jay together usually ends up being bitter moaning about the sad state of modern cinema.

27:45 for everyone who came here for the stuffed elephant scene 😂

I have never seen Darkman so when Jay started talking about this possible back ground love between 2 gangsters and said "we don't get much of it cause his head gets immediately crushed by a car tire" I lost it. More movies need to have these almost background love plots but then one then someone's head gets crushed.

I remember being stuck on a week-long trip in the middle of nowhere with only the Nintendo Power that had the strategy guide for the Darkman game in it. I must've read through that entire issue 100 times because it was that or just stare out the window and knew every level of that game inside and out and had never played it.

Me, personally, I think Rich and Jay are the best Re:View duo. Whenever we have just the two talking about movies is great. They're so different from each other and yet get along so well! It's the complete pack!

If you haven't read Bruce's book If Chins Could Kill, I highly recommend it . Bruce talks about the wacky shenanigans while working with Sam and also the story about the Oldsmobile. It's very entertaining.

re:View is easily my favorite movie review segment on the internet, and my fave part of Red Letter Media.

I remember watching this and The Shadow on VHS as a kid and wondered why they were so similar. I never knew that Darkman was supposed to a Shadow movie.

Really loving all the Jay + Rich Re:Views that’ve been coming out lately, I feel like they’re becoming my favorite pairing in the series

Evil dead 2, Darkman, Army of Darkness... Awesome run

Correction, Jay: Holly Hunter lived with the Coens and Raimi at the time along with Frances McDormand, because Ethan Coen and her were a couple. Evil Dead co-writer and producer Scott Spiegel lived with them too and talks about it on the Evil Dead II audio commentary.

I waited hours at my local Blockbuster trying to rent this movie when I was a kid. They wouldn't let me reserve it and I didn't want to miss it yet again, so I wondered around the store most of a Saturday afternoon and into evening waiting for whomever had rented it to return it. I'd like to say that my patience was rewarded but the bastards never brought it in. I don't remember when I finally got to see it, I only remember waiting half the day trying to see it.

I watched the movie when I got into Evil Dead, around 10 years ago. Good time to rewatching it. I never understood why Bruce Campbell never became a bigger star. He is great.

This movie pleasantly surprised the hell out me when I saw it a few years ago. Wasn't sure what to expect. And it turned out to be like nothing else. And Sam Raimi is just so good at making me laugh out loud during intense important and "serious" moments during the movie. Proving once again that Hitchcock was right when he said that humor (and consequently, absurdity) can definitely add to suspense; and to my eye, it does so in a way that no other traditional device can.

Agree with everything except one: The Elfman score for Spider-Man fits that character perfectly imo. The souring swings at the end are far removed from the grim gothic of his Batman score.

My coworkers pretty much know me for always talking about and making the movie Darkman a demonstration point. No one understands what I'm talking about even though it is related and clear.

I love when rich and jay talk about movies !

Finally Darkman getting the love it deserves! One of my favourite Raimi movies. It might be a bit unpolished but visually it has so many interesting ideas.

Loved this movie as a kid. Raimi-cam INFURIATED my Dad. Like to an irrational degree. Like it slapped his mom.

Liam Neeson still doing action films like the infamous climbing fence scene that had to be cut many times

Holy shit. Jay's recollection of Darkman/Army of Darkness mirrors my exact experience.

this is the greatest movie i never even knew existed. the leg gun guy and the guy using the leg gun is just absolutely amazing writing and acting.

DarkMan has had a long standing spot in my "comic book" movies (as has RoboCop) for more than a decade.

It’s so strange that you mention the similarities between Darkman and RoboCop. Those movies were always tied together for me mainly because the Darkman and RoboCop 2 NES games are very similar and done by the same company in came out around the same time

the spiderman theme is the best theme ever composed, Rich Evans, you bastard

This movie holds the absolute record for most uses of the phrase "Belisarius Memorandum" with no competition in sight.