Original title:
Darkman
[en]
Darkman
[en]
They destroyed everything he had, everything he was. Now, crime has a new enemy and justice has a new face.
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
Genre
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Country
United States 
Budget
$16 000 000
Revenue
$48 900 000
Duration
1 hour 35 minutes
Release status
Released
Actors
Peyton Westlake / Darkman
Liam Neeson
Julie Hastings
Frances McDormand
Louis Strack Jr.
Colin Friels
Robert G. Durant
Larry Drake
Yakitito
Nelson Mashita
Eddie Black
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson
Rudy Guzman
Rafael H. Robledo
Skip
Dan Hicks
Rick
Ted Raimi
Smiley
Dan Bell
Movie collection «Darkman Collection»
Darkman is a 1990 American superhero film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi. It is based on a short story Raimi wrote that paid homage to Universal's horror films of the 1930s. The film stars Liam Neeson as Peyton Westlake, a scientist who is brutally attacked, disfigured and left for dead by a ruthless mobster, Robert Durant (Larry Drake), after his girlfriend, an attorney (Frances McDormand), runs afoul of a corrupt developer (Colin Friels). After a failed treatment to cure him of his burn injuries, Westlake develops super-human abilities, which also have the unintended side-effect of rendering him mentally unstable and borderline psychotic. Consumed with vengeance, he decides to hunt down the men responsible for his disfigurement. The film's financial success spawned two direct-to-video sequels, Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995) and Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996), as well as comic books, video games, and action figures.
