I watched the whole Evil Dead Trilogy today (yeah sure beats studying). I really enjoyed watching Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness but I’ve never liked Evil Dead 1 but the other two are always a blast. It’s so filled with overacted cheesy parody of teen horror flicks. And I especially loved Army of Darkness since the skeletons look so funny and the stop-action shots look great (cheesy) and it turns out to be more of a comedy movie rather than a horror flick. But the story is of course as cheesy as can be and that’s why so many people love these movies.

Ratings:
Evil Dead: 2/5
Evil Dead 2 – Dead By Dawn: 3/5
Army of Darkness: 3/5

Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

A sequel/remake of the film The Evil Dead. A young man named Ash takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin, and plays back a professor’s tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor’s daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other.

This is the sequel to “Evil Dead 2.” Ash finds himself stranded in the 13th Century with his car, his shotgun, and his chainsaw. Soon he is discovered and thought to be a spy for a rival kingdom and is taken prisoner. After proving his merit in The Pit, he decides to help the kingdom retrieve the Necronomicon (which will also help him return to his own time), which they need to battle the supernatural forces at play in the land. Ash accidentally releases the Army of Darkness when retrieving the book, and a fight to the finish ensues.

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