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Darkman was released to theaters on August 24, 1990. I know because I was there. Two months later, I set out in full Darkman regalia to gather candy from neighborhood houses.

Sam Raimi made movies with style then (up to and including 1995). Darkman features a fine new monster-hero, played with tortured gusto by Liam Neeson, who'd been working steadily and well since I had last seen him in Krull, but wouldn't hit star status for a few more years with 1993's Schindler's List (one could make a case for 1992's Husbands and Wives). As the heavy, Robert G. Durant, a creepy turn by Larry Drake, the guy who'd won Emmy awards the previous two years for playing a developmentally disabled office assistant on L.A. Law. Playing against type worked for Drake, and he immediately landed the lead in Dr. Giggles, as well as cementing his Durant role in future installments.

Additionally to Darkman's credit: excellent special effects, real comic-book style, a great Phantom of the Opera sensibility, and a machine gun leg, a good decade and a half before Robert Rodriguez digitized one onto Rose McGowan's shapely stump.

In 1992, a TV pilot was shot, with Christopher Bowen in the lead and Larry Drake back as Durant. It was never aired, but Darkman's fair success was enough to keep the franchise going.

Today we get a DVD mini-box release of all three Darkman films. Liam Neeson was too big by 1994 to have anything to do with a direct-to-video Darkman sequel, so Arnold Vosloo took over the Peyton Westlake role. Larry Drake reprised his role as advertised: Darkman II: The Return of Durant. Finally, Vosloo returned to face off with Jeff Fahey in Darkman III: Die, Darkman, Die.

Darkman spawned a Nintendo game, action figure, novelization series, and comic books, including one in which he crossed over with another Raimi franchise: Darkman Vs. Army of Darkness. Sam Raimi sure made films with style in 1992.