The Strand to show Army of Darkness

VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — Vicksburg’s The Strand Theatre to show Army of Darkness, Saturday, Oct. 10 beginning at 7 p.m.

Presented by John Roquet, join movie goers for a good way to start Halloween season with a movie featuring lots of skeletons and laughs.

According to Roger Ebert: “Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness is a goofy, hyperventilated send-up of horror films and medieval warfare, so action-packed it sometimes seems less like a movie than like a cardiovascular workout for its stars.

The method of the film is simple. As many action and horror cliches as possible are trashed; the film does for medieval mythology and horror what The Naked Gun did for cops.

Army of Darkness stars Bruce Campbell, who also starred in the first two Evil Dead movies, and who looks like a square-jawed, muscular comic book hero. One action sequence flows into another with only the briefest of pauses for elementary plot details.

Campbell plays Ash, who in real life works in a discount supermarket, but finds himself and his car deposited on a medieval battlefield, where before long Ash assumes leadership and leads his knights in warfare against an army of the dead. (There are more animated skeletons here than in any film since Jason and the Argonauts.) 

The special effects in Army of Darkness are ingenious and a lot of fun. The makeup is state of the art.”

All that and free popcorn.

Advance tickets will be $9 at Highway 61 Coffeehouse or $10 at the door.

The Strand Theatre is located at 717 Clay Street in downtown Vicksburg.