February 23, 2014
Another excellent blu-ray release from Scream Factory, Darkman is a highly underrated cult classic crime film. Sam Raimi directed and produced it with the money he made from Evil Dead 2. It stars Liam Neeson as a brilliant scientist on the verge of developing a liquid-based skin from photographs of body parts. He actually has the formula close to perfected, the only problem is the skin can't be exposed to light after 99 minutes. When his girlfriend, Frances McDormand, gets a memo that implicates some high-profile people in a crime, a gang of tough guys led by Larry Drake (Dr. Giggles, Dark Night of the Scarecrow) goes after the memo. In the process, they destroy Neeson's lab and almost kill him. Struggling to survive, Neeson gathers what is left of his equipment and builds some skin molds of the criminals. Dressing and acting like the criminals, he turns them against each other and is able to infiltrate their organization. There is a lot of action and some trademark Sam Raimi special effects which make Darkman a lot of fun to watch, especially with the beautiful new blu-ray transfer by Scream Factory.
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