The Dark Backward
The Dark Backward

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A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Dark Backward:

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Bill Paxton
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Rob Lowe

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A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him.

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Boston Globe - 9/10 by Jay CarrDarkman 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.
Entertainment Weekly - 8/10 by Owen GleibermanDarkman is a thrillingly demented pop spectacular: a grade-B movie made by a grade-A lunatic.
Apollo Guide - 8/10 by Brian WebsterOdd and twisted, The Dark Backward has plenty to thrill admirers of ugliness and enough food for thought to interest the rest of us too.
Los Angeles Times - 8/10 by Kevin ThomasRifkin has spun a pitch-black fable of show business at its sleaziest and most ephemeral.
Chicago Tribune - 8/10 by Gene SiskelDarkman, as unnerving as a gargoyle, is a classic nightmare, elegant and sumptuous, everything "Batman" should have been. But we're numbed after a while, as we are by the grotesquerie of the nightly news. Then again, maybe that's Raimi's intention. His work is beautiful in its scary way, and never only skin deep.
Austin Chronicle - 7/10 by Marc SavlovRifkin has fashioned a crawly little movie that underscores the Faustian price of fame in a way that few recent films have managed.
Los Angeles Times - 7/10 by Michael WilmingtonDarkman 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.
Entertainment Weekly - 6/10 by Michael SauterSomewhere here, an ironic show-biz parable is trying to take shape. But director Adam Rifkin generally ignores it, preferring to flaunt the chops he has borrowed from David Lynch and John Waters.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - 5/10 by Jay ScottCertainly not Raimi at his best, but some knowing genre nods and an array of great effects make up much of the deficit.
The New York Times - 5/10 by Janet MaslinMr. Rifkin's direction does display, in addition to an appreciation of Mr. Lynch and perhaps John Waters, a promising eye for design and a taste for the unusual. With less noxious material and a less patronizing manner, those talents would amount to a lot more.

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