The journey to "Army of Darkness" is a little circuitous, so follow me for a moment.

Sam Raimi's rise to fame is inspiring for all ambitious young filmmakers who don't mind freezing their butts off at remote cabins, spraying red-color corn syrup all over their friends. The making of "The Evil Dead" is a well-known tale to horror hounds everywhere. The young filmmaker, with his actor buddy Bruce Campbell, wanted to make a horror movie, but had no money to do so, being working class kids from Detroit. He and Campbell begged just about everyone they knew for funds, and eventually scrapped together $375,000, juuuust enough to make a spooky, gory cabin-in-the-woods movie. They shot in 16mm film on rented cameras.

The film crawled its way onto screens, and made a massive $2.4 million. Oversea

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