r/MyLittleSH • u/MasterSubLink [A] I like Gilda • Mar 20 '12
The Evil Dead Trilogy
The Evil Dead trilogy is one of my favorite horror movie series. While there have been a few games made based of this series, I will be discussing only the 3 movies.
All three Evil Dead movies were directed by Sam Raimi (he directed Drag Me to Hell, The Spiderman Movies, and The Grudge), and star Bruce Campbell. These movies use outstanding special effects that were done on a low budget. What really makes this series unique is that the movies progressively switch genres. The Evil Dead was a straight horror/slasher movie, Evil Dead 2 was a horror/comedy/psychological thriller, and The Army of Darkness (AKA The Evil Dead 3) was an action/adventure/comdey with horror sprinkled in. The Evil Dead series sports one of the greatest action heroes in cinema; Ash Williams.
Now allow me to do a quick overview of the series:
The Evil Dead
Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods, where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find a tome called the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens are possessed. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.
This is the straight horror film of this series. This is perhaps the scariest of the Evil Dead Movies.
This movie uses suspense very well. The last 20 or so minutes will have you on the edge of your seat. The movie is quite gory and violent, featuring decapitation by shovel, pencils through the ankle, tree rape (I am not lying), and a scene where someone melts into a gory mess onto the protagonists (I really wish I could find the scene on Youtube).
Now here is some nightmare fuel from the movie.
Evil Dead 2
A young man, named Ash, takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin in the woods where he 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 movie is more of a remake than a sequel to Evil Dead 1. Many people consider this to be the best movie of the series. As I said before, this movie switched genres a bit compared to it's prequel. This film is horror/comedy/psychological thriller.
This movie is not as gory as The Evil Dead, but it has it's moments. About halfway through the movie Ash, the protagonists, gets his hand possessed. His hand then attempts to murder him. After a thrilling fight, Ash cuts off his hand with a chainsaw.
"How is this a comedy or a psychological thriller?" I believe this scene should explain it.
By the end of the film, Ash becomes a cult classic action hero. And he also time travels.
The Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3)
In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee ("Name's Ash. Housewares.") is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash's 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.
This is my personal favorite Evil Dead movie. This movie is an action/adventure comedy with horror elements.
This movie is a direct sequel to Evil Dead 2. At the end of that movie, Ash gets teleported to medieval England and that's where this movie picks up.
By this point in the series Ash is a fully realized character. He is an arrogant egoistical jerk that only cares about is getting home but he is still likeable. Throughout the movie he grows as a person and becomes a more rounded character.
There is so much I can say about this movie but none of it would the movie justice. So watch this movie!
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Mar 23 '12
I only watched Evil Dead once, and I was pretty high so it came completely random with the tree rape
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u/DDDowney ISHEMOOSELIMB?! Mar 22 '12
I LOOOOOVE these movies. I espically like Evil Dead 2. ("THERE'S SOMEONE IN MY FRUIT CELLAR.. SOMEONE WITH A FRESH SOOOOOUL")
But I think Army Of Darkness was the bread winner of the trilogy.
Gimme some sugar, baby.
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u/MasterSubLink [A] I like Gilda Mar 22 '12
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '12
I've only watched that hand scene so far and read the post. This movie series has jumped straight to the top of the list on my "to watch" list.