I could be wrong but I don't think Army of Darkness received a theatrical release in the UK? .. not as a brand new film anyway.
I could have/should have seen Evil Dead 2 on it's opening week in England.
Me and my best mate were in the que at our local cinema, extremely excited to see if (we'd recorded The Incredibly Film Show on Channel 4, the Sam Raimi episode and watched and read stuff about the film already). We were both underage to be admitted (it was an 18 certificate here) but the cinema was pretty slack, they didn't really care as much in the 80's so I'd often been able to bullshit us in before.
At the last moment, my mate decided he wanted to be the one to bullshit us in this time .. kind of a rite of passage thing so I'd agreed. We were 13 years old.
The disinterested ticket selling woman said to him:
"Are you 18?." .. all he had to do was lie, say yes and we would have got in ..
"Err .. we're 16 and a half."
"Sorry. This film is for 18 or older."






So we went to see the 15 certificate The Gate instead, another horror film which, to be fair, was pretty good. I was still pretty pissed off with my mate but I kept my mouth shut. Me and him did eventually go to a cinema double bill of The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 a few years later in Tamworth, this was before Army of Darkness had been released. I've still got a few flyers from that night and mailed one to Tom Sullivan years later after I'd joined this site.