Flick Pick

The final installment of the gory trilogy that launched, then buoyed up, horrormeister Sam Raimi's directorial career, 1993's Army of Darkness, goes for broke in the outrageous plotting department. The innocent hero, played by a wisecracking Bruce Campbell, is transported back to the fourteenth-century stamping grounds of King Arthur -- complete with his beat-up 1973 Oldsmobile and a chain saw, which comes in handy. There he must defeat an army of the dead before he can make his way back to the present. Crammed with inventive special effects and Raimi's witty bits of dialogue, this cult favorite rolls the credits on the series, which began in 1983 with a blood-drenched camping trip in The Evil Dead and returned to the scene of the crimes four years later in Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn.

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Army of Darkness will show Saturday, August 14, as part of the Midnights at the Esquire series. The Esquire Theatre is at 590 Downing Street; for information, call 303-352-1992 or go to www.landmarktheatres.com.