Poll
Question:
From favorite to least favorite, how do you rank the three EVIL DEAD movies?
Option 1: Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness
votes: 9
Option 2: Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead II
votes: 1
Option 3: Evil Dead II, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness
votes: 5
Option 4: Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead
votes: 6
Option 5: Army of Darkness, Evil Dead, Evil Dead II
votes: 1
Option 6: Army of Darkness, Evil Dead II, Evil Dead
votes: 4
After finally finishing up the trilogy, I'm curious as to which film people thought was the best. All have something to recommend them, and all are a little but different in tone.
Personally, I liked II the best, and I suspect most people will vote that way. Choosing between ED & AOD was a lot tougher, but I ultimately went with AOD because I prefer the comic wackiness. I always thought the original was an above-average low-budget horror film, but nothing astounding.
What about you?
My vote - Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness
IMO It didn't get scarier, it became funny ...
ED2 is a vast improvement over ED, cinematically. Shows a lot more polish and style. AD is, well, it's AD. Best seen in a theatre, IMO. OTOH if you don't like humor mixed with your horror, as some don't, then I'd say. .
What are you doing watching the Evil Dead movies?
Quote from: Kester Pelagius on August 23, 2009, 05:29:44 PM
ED2 is a vast improvement over ED, cinematically. Shows a lot more polish and style. AD is, well, it's AD. Best seen in a theatre, IMO. OTOH if you don't like humor mixed with your horror, as some don't, then I'd say. .
What are you doing watching the Evil Dead movies?
You talkin' to me? If so, I watch all kinds of movies, and I find the series quite entertaining. I even find ED II to qualify as a "weird" movie, though just barely, due to the surreal "cabin fever" stretch starting with the dancing corpse and ending with the laughing stag's head.
I'm surprised to see a couple of people picking AOD as their favorite... but that's why I did the poll, I guess. The movies are so different that each person can have a different favorite.
Evil Dead was a phenomenal use of a low budget. The low budget actually helped its atmosphere; the jerky stop motion made it more creepy and the food items used to simulate gore made it more putrid cos it still sorta looked like food. ED 2 was ED on a bigger budget but Ash's character was more developed. AD was one of the best horror-comedies ever made, that's inspired a whole lot of others and still does.
With that in mind I like a three the same for different reasons. Also, in all three, those camera angles and direction are really some revolutionary stuff.
I voted for Evil Dead 2, Evil Dead, and then Army of Darkness.
I like all of them, but part 2 is my favorite and I like the first one for how seriously disturbing it is.
Army of Darkness was good, but the comedy was a bit over the top for me.
I voted Army of Darkness, Evil Dead 2, Evil Dead. That's because I like the comedy/horror and polished looks that came with the sequels more.
I voted Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army Of Darkness. I'm not too fond of humour in horror films.
I selected Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, then Evil Dead, mainly because that's the order in which I watched them. I knew there was an Evil Dead, but the local Blockbuster never seemed to have it available, so I took Evil Dead II. I found it managed to be creepy and funny at the same time, I especially liked the ending. I remember thinking a sequel had definite possibilities. Army of Darkness, for me at least, is more comedy than horror and it's really enjoyable from that standpoint. I found Evil Dead, when I finally watched it to be a very effective low budget horror story. My order of preference is just arbitrary, these three films, individually or collectively are very good.
I picked ED, ED2 and AOD because I like the pure low budget horror of ED the best.
I went with ED,EDII,and AOD.
Loved the first, loved the second even though it's a more comedic re-hash of the first, absolutely hate Army Of Darkness. I know some people on here may find that amazing, but I hate to see a good horror series tarnished by slapstick and self indulgence.
I went with AOD, EDII, ED.
There's a couple of gags in AOD that I absolutely love ! :teddyr:
ED2 is my favorite, love the other two, its hard to choose.
Don't rent Evil Ed, its so bad its just bad.
Quote from: inframan on August 25, 2009, 08:24:08 AM
Don't rent Evil Ed, its so bad its just bad.
What about EVIL DEAD TRAP? Anyone seen it?
I don't know about Evil Dead Trap (Though I have heard of "Evil Dead Warriors" ;) ), but you can catch an easier to watch Evil Ed in Fright Night :P
As for the trilogy: I vote ED1 first, as... it's one of the most overwhelmingly scary films I've seen. ED2 was pretty whacked-out (In a very good way) but it's hard to know most people dismiss one of the scariest films ever made as silliness because of its sequel X( . Army of Darkness is also great, wonderfully quotable, but doesn't connect as well to the others (Plus, the FX aren't as good).
ED II, AOD, ED
How do I rank EVIL DEAD?
1... Evil Dead ~ Horror
2... Evil Dead 2 ~ Comedy
3... Evil Dead 3 ~ Fantasy
:)
Quote from: Mr. Briggs Inc. on August 25, 2009, 02:36:23 PM
I don't know about Evil Dead Trap (Though I have heard of "Evil Dead Warriors" ;) ), but you can catch an easier to watch Evil Ed in Fright Night :P
As for the trilogy: I vote ED1 first, as... it's one of the most overwhelmingly scary films I've seen. ED2 was pretty whacked-out (In a very good way) but it's hard to know most people dismiss one of the scariest films ever made as silliness because of its sequel X( . Army of Darkness is also great, wonderfully quotable, but doesn't connect as well to the others (Plus, the FX aren't as good).
I agree that the FX in Army of Darkness is weak, especially since the movie was made after Terminator 2... The special effects should of been as good as "Death Becomes Her (1992)" because both Evil Dead films did very well at the box office that money shouldnt be an issue.
Army of darkness
Evil dead 2
Evil dead
(Hides behind cover)
Quote from: Cthulhu on August 27, 2009, 02:16:17 PM
Army of darkness
Evil dead 2
Evil dead
(Hides behind cover)
Don't be shy, three other people voted that way, too... if I had to guess, I would guess that the people who voted AOD #1 saw it before they saw ED2. True?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 27, 2009, 08:00:54 PM
Quote from: Cthulhu on August 27, 2009, 02:16:17 PM
Army of darkness
Evil dead 2
Evil dead
(Hides behind cover)
Don't be shy, three other people voted that way, too... if I had to guess, I would guess that the people who voted AOD #1 saw it before they saw ED2. True?
I saw Evil dead 2 first, then Army of darkness, and then Evil dead.
I think I like Evil Dead more cuz it actually scares me a bit. Or it could be because I got burnt out of Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, but I still like them both.
I HAVE seen Evil Dead Trap and Evil Dead Trap 2. Neither are remotely like the Evil Dead trilogy. My roomate and I were obsessed with Evil Dead Trap and watched it several times in a row trying to figure out what was happening.
Quote from: Cthulhu on August 27, 2009, 02:16:17 PM
Army of darkness
Evil dead 2
Evil dead
(Hides behind cover)
That's how I voted.
Evil Dead II is one of my favorite movies so it's first on my list. I like Evil Dead and Army of Darkness equally, but imo Army of Darkness has more re-watch value.
ED II
AoD
ED