Darkman

DARKMAN (15)

D: Sam Raimi

Universal (Robert Tapert)

USA 🇺🇸 1990

96 mins

Crime/Horror/Science Fiction

W: Chuck Pfarrer, Sam Raimi, Daniel Goldin & Joshua Goldin

DP: Bill Pope

Ed: Bud Smith, Scott Smith & David Stiven

Mus: Danny Elfman

Liam Neeson (Peyton Westlake / Darkman), Frances McDormand (Julie Hastings), Colin Friels (Louis Strack, Jr.), Larry Drake (Robert G. Durant), Nelson Mashita (Yakitoto), Jesse Lawrence Ferguson (Eddie Black)

Comic book style horror about a scientist, hideously deformed after an explosion in his lab, who creates a synthetic substitute for skin which enables him to be a master of disguise and hunt the mobsters who caused the explosion which caused his affliction.

Sam Raimi does a good job directing the rather meagre budgetted movie, utilising the comic book style to get away with cheap looking special effects. The performances and makeup are very well done though. A decent film for fans and non-fans of the genre.

6/10