When thugs employed by a crime boss lead a vicious assault on Dr. Peyton Wilder, leaving him literally and psychologically scarred, an emergency procedure allows him to survive. The scientist then returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.
15 August 1951, New York City, New York, USA
22 June 1958, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
1956, Michigan, USA
14 October 1935, Augusta, Georgia, USA
24 December 1957, Walnut Lake, Michigan, USA
25 September 1952, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
13 November 1952
21 February 1949, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
6 January 1930, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
31 August 1958, Detroit, Michigan, USA
5 March 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
1950, USA
10 June 1961, Carmel, California, USA
17 December 1948, Upland, California, USA
3 August 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 June 1952, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
21 September 1957, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
29 November 1954, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
29 November 1946, Bakersfield, California, USA
January 08, 2016
Darkman still remains one of Sam Raimi's most ambitious projects to date and it's hard to do anything but admire the kind of lofty ambitions Raimi tosses at the screen with his self-created superhero crime thriller/dark comedy mash-up.
June 04, 2007
Raimi's flair for jazzy visual effects and extravagant action sequences, combined with direction that's full of punch and energy, makes this the best pop roller-coaster ride around.
January 26, 2006
Wild, woolly and occasionally wondrous.
March 28, 2010
Raimi isn't effective with his actors, and the dialogue lacks smart menace, but his canny visual sense carries many a scene.
May 20, 2003
Darkman sustains mild interest throughout, but it never takes off, partly because a real-estate scam, gangland shootouts, city corruption and a love story clutter up the sad story of Westlake's strange mutation.
March 13, 2014
It's a fun, gruesome, and original revenge picture for horror and pulp fans alike...
February 25, 2014
As with most of Raimi's early work, the second-hand premise is an excuse for the director's movie-mad visual invention.
May 01, 2014
Raimi, in 1990, made the best comic-book movie there ever was...
June 22, 2015
...comicbook slapstick and off-the-hook mania in a combination only previously seen in Evil Dead II.
February 20, 2014
Darkman is funny, but it's no joke; it's the work of a man who underlines the conventions of adventure stories and horror because he enjoys them, and knows that even when rendered tongue-in-cheek, they're timeless.
June 04, 2007
Despite occasional silliness, Sam Raimi's Darkman has more wit, pathos and visual flamboyance than is usual in contemporary shockers.
May 12, 2001
Raimi's live-action comic book aims to deliver scares spiked with laughs. That it does.
