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Darkman is a 1990 American superhero horror film [5] [6] [7] directed and co-written by Sam Raimi.The film stars Liam Neeson as scientist Peyton Westlake, who is brutally attacked, disfigured, and left for dead by ruthless mobster Robert Durant (Larry Drake), after his girlfriend, attorney Julie Hastings (Frances McDormand), runs afoul of corrupt developer Louis Strack Jr. (Colin Friels).
Men grossed $7.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $3.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $11.2 million. [3] In North America, the film was released alongside Downton Abbey: A New Era in 2,212 theaters. It made $3.3 million in its opening weekend, [16] finishing fifth at the box office. [17]
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Army of Darkness was released by Universal on February 19, 1993, in 1,387 theaters in the United States, grossing $4.4 million (38.5% of total gross) in its first weekend. On a budget of $11 million, the film earned $11.5 million in the US and $21.5 million worldwide. [37]
He also directed the superhero movie Darkman (1990), the revisionist western The Quick and the Dead (1995), the neo-noir crime thriller A Simple Plan (1998), the supernatural thriller The Gift (2000), the supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell (2009), the Disney fantasy Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and the Marvel Studios film Doctor Strange ...
The film was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and six Saturn Awards. Some critics later noted Dark City ' s similarities to and influence on the Matrix film series, whose first installment came out a year later, [5] [6] [7] and the film is now widely considered a sci-fi cult classic. [8] [9] [10] [11]
[4] Brett Cullum of DVD Verdict wrote, "Despite any shortcomings, this is a movie made by horror film fans for their peers. You can feel the passion seeping off the screen, and somehow a movie that should be fodder for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 becomes a rollicking good time." [5] Horrorhound.com named it "the goriest vampire film of all ...
Darkness, a character from the film Legend (1985); The Darkness, a name for one of the man-eating lions in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), a historical adventure film; The Darkness, the source of destruction of Wonderland in the animated film Wonder Park