Production year: 1992
Director: Sam Raimi
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 8.5
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Ted Raimi
catapulted back in time, even in the Middle Ages, Ash (Bruce Campbell) is captured by the troops of King Arthur. Proved his innocence, gets on the trail of the dreaded Necronomicon "Book of the Dead" with great power, but free from sleep involuntarily forces of evil. To return to the era will have to defend the book from the lust for power of his evil alter ego, driving the local population against the army of the dead. . This movie plays around the book of the dead, the Necronomicon, which according to the writer of fantastic tales Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the Necronomicon (whose original title in Arabic is Al Azif ) is a text written by a black magic sorcerer Arab named Abdul Alhazred , who lived in Yemen in the eighth century AD and died in Damascus in mysterious circumstances (it is said to pieces in broad daylight by an invisible being). In fact, the Necronomicon is a pseudobiblium, that is a book ever written, but as mentioned if it were true in any actual books. The Necronomicon , in fact, it's just a literary device created by Lovecraft to give credibility to their stories, which became gradually an intellectual game when other writers began to cite in their tales of horror or science fiction. Lovecraft himself was almost forced, at some point, to confess that the Necronomicon was his invention when he realized that too many of his fans took him seriously, and even today there are people who believe the real existence of the Necronomicon . The book began to emerge from literary fiction to enter the real world in 1941 when an antique dealer in New York, Philip Duchesne, put it in its catalog a reference to Necronomicon, which provided the description and set the price at $ 900. In 1953 the journalist Arthur Scott, in an article the monthly U.S. Sir! , argued that the Necronomicon is written on sheets of human skin taken from people killed by witchcraft bills. In the 70 Colin Wilson argues that Lovecraft lied when he said that the Necronomicon does not exist, to cover the responsibilities of his father, member of the Egyptian Freemasonry founded by Cagliostro and owner of a copy of the Necronomicon (probably in English translation, by John Dee). Starring Bruce Campbell on the actor who plays Ash, a postmodern hero already appeared earlier in the House 1 and 2, there are many who consider him the best actor in "B-movie" of all time. His style Acting can be considered as a machismo pushed to capacity, which lends itself well to roles such as Ash Williams, whom Campbell himself has called it "an idiot and a moron like all of us. It is precisely this style is parodied in the film The Majestic where Campbell appears as Roland the Intrepid Explorer in the B-Movie Pirates of the Sahara, written by screenwriter played by Jim Carrey. Campbell also excels in the "acting otherwise", a recording technique used frequently by Raimi, where action sequences are filmed in reverse order as they appear in the film. Mitica the scene in which he must recite the three famous words to retrieve the Book of the Dead " Verata Klaatu Nikto ", the above phrase in question is a tribute to the cult science fiction film The Day the Earth in 1951 by Robert Wise. The film also stars the director's brother, Ted Raimi el 'actress Embeth Davidtz in the role of companion Sheila Ash in medieval period, as well as interpreter of the wonderful film' Men Bicentanario of 1999, which I will deal shortly. Finally a good realization of special effects used to represent the army of undead skeletons and the like, and this winner of the International Festival of Fantasy Film Brussels Raven Gold for Best Film. Favorite phrase "give me a little 'sugar baby."
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