The Evil Dead trilogy
 

Anyone here who is a fan of them? I love part 2 and AoD isn´t so dumb either.

There's probably like 5000000 threads on this.

The Evil Dead will forever and always reign supremely over any and every other horror movie.

Evil Dead 2 was a fantastic follow-up, and stands brilliantly on its own with a great sense of humor and a bucketload of gore.

I find Army of Darkness extremely overrated and think it's a weak addition to the series. That being said, the movie is alright on its own.

got all three

My 9 year-old claims them as his favorite films... even though his favorite is AoD

My 9 yr old hates horror movies but my 6 yr old is addicted.

Is that a Nekromantix avatar I've been skimming over all this time?

Great band, when the hell are they gonna make a new album?!

I think Army of Darkness is a great film and it's so different from both one and two that it lends itself to viewing when you're not in the mood to watch the other two. If I want to watch a horror film I can watch Evil Dead while Evil Dead 2 is there if I'm looking for some horror infused with some comedy elements. If I want to watch a comedy with some horror elements I turn to AoD. They're all a blast, I just wish they'd release a book of the dead version of AoD already!

i dont consider AOD to be part of a trilogy

Yes, that would be great!

Why not?

Yes its a very different movie, but it's just an extention of ED2's plot...isnt that what a sequel is?

Im sure you count Dawn and Day of the Dead to be sequels to Night, and they have a lot less in common than ED and AoD

agreed. what are your reasons for loving it so much?

To me, it's everything horror stands for in my mind. It's campy, it's funny, it's over-the-top gory, it's scary, it's outrageous, and it's got a good cast that performs well without being star-studded.

Sam didn't try to force anything when he made the film; he just got a solid ensemble of filmmakers and put together a movie that wasn't made to make money (though it did), and that wasn't trying to impress anybody (though it did).


It is just plain scary fun, with no strings attached. I could say the same about Evil Dead 2, Dawn of the Dead (1978), An American Werewolf in London, and The Thing as well, but none triumph like Raimi's masterpiece.

I love the evil dead trilogy, but I don't think I can watch them for a few more years. I got evil dead overload.:eek:

exactly my thoughts. everything was perfectly balanced. atmosphere, scares, gore and cheezy fun was all delivered in perfect amounts. One of my favorite parts of the film is the way Raimi experimented with camera angles and did things that people would never dream of doing back then. ex. shooting a scene with the camera tilted diagonally.

That shooting style has carried over with him so will and really adds to a lot of his stuff, for me at least. When I was watching Spiderman 2 and DocOc was in the operating room, as soon as the chaos started and the tentacles went crazy that whole scene was shot in such a similar fashion. You could just look at it and know that it was Sam's stuff.

Yes, he's certainly developed a kind of signature camera movement- he knows how to really carry (or shove) us through the movie. The Evil Dead feels like it should be a carnival ride, the whole thing is a funhouse of whacky, exhausting horrors; you never know what's going to pop out, and from where.

Theres a lot of stuff i still ponder about how he went about doing it. Bruce's feet sweep across the camera and it transitions to another scene. wonder how he did that.

Well, I didn´t found any other one so....

guess i never thought of it like that

how about they come out with a book of the dead that has all three films????

Im not sure I can really count a film that I laughed at as a horror film in my collection. Not many films scare me but some give me the creeps and some well I like them as films but not as horror I think The Evil Dead is one of those films. I have yet to watch the rest of the trilogy but I will as I enjoyed this film.

I love the Evil Dead Movies
i think all great
i like Evil Dead 2 more then other 2

Raimi is by not the first to shoot a scene with the camera tilted diagonally (which is called a Dutch Angle by the way). This technic was started in the 1930's in Germany. Orson Welles later made it popular in America with The Third Man (1949).

Though a lot of Raimi's technique were not often used in horror movies during that time period and it banned in a few countries for a while because of it's excessive gore.

Personally, I like Evil Dead 2 the best. The story is just great and I love the evil hand. Evil Dead always seemed to feel a little student filmish to me and Army of Darkness can be a little too campy.

The Third Man...now there's a film I'd recommend everyone seeing by the time they die. Brilliant filmmaking, Welles is fantastic.


You have all heard about the fake blood story right? Raimi's original film had all red blood, very realistic looking. In order to escape a very harsh censor and possible ban, Raimi had to make some of the blood different colors, hence the blue, green, purple, etc. gore.


And I hate to burst your bubbles, but, at least if you live in America, there will never be a Army of Darkness Necronomicon DVD released. Anchor bay owns the rights to The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, whereas Universal owns Army of Darkness now. In case you haven't noticed, Universal sucks. They don't like fun DVD releases.

I don't think he meant JUST the tilt but the angle combined with movement that really drew you into the scene. Raimi had some very original camera work although you're right, a lot of it was simply new combinations of older styles.

similar thing happened with Taxi Driver. Scorsese had to get rid of some of the color contrast to get past the censors, so now the blood looks very dark, almost black. they lost the original negative, so its gonna stay like that forever.

That's a damn shame.

...now that I think about it, the blood in Taxi Driver is unusually dark.

yeah, it is kinda sad. its the opposite of what Scorsese was trying for as well.

Travis Bickle was living out his fantasy in that scene, and he wanted the colors to be vibrant.

Amen. The movie still kicks ass, however, dark blood or not!
I wish Scorsese'd do a commentary track on it.

agreed. I got me a big ass 5 foot taxi driver poster in my room.:)

true about the commentary. I learned alot from the mini documentary, however i'd like to know more.

Yep, its the Nekromantix, my favorite psychobilly band.I have no clue on the album though.:(

I used to be really into Psychobilly, I'm not so much anymore.

The Nekromantix, however...excellent group, I still enjoy them. Great lyrics, great music, and they have so much fun doing it! I love their "Undead 'N' Live" CD.

i love evil dead...and most things renaissance pictures have produced...i love bruce campbell and sam and ted raimi....hmmm ted raimi.....evil dead made me want to make films

I love them all for their great mix of campiness with real horror. A pioneer of this type of combo that we see often now. It was silly but still frightning and just generally fun to watch. Buckets of blood and great action and ED 1 had the great low budget feel that made it stick out from the rest. I love AOD too no matter what people say. It is silly and campy but hell it is just fun to watch and funny as hell. There is no shame in laughing your ass off and being scared shitless at the same time. Infact...it is quite fun.

Ok, how do you rank ém then?

My list:

1. Army of Darkness 10/10
2. Evil Dead II 9/10
3. The Evil Dead 9/10 Haven´t seen it since 2004 then.

I rank them how they came out.

Evil Dead
AOD
Evil Dead II

A lot of people will tell you that they are good, some will say they are brilliant, awesome, great etc. etc. No negative adjective can be added to describe these 3 films. You dont meet anyone who tells you "I hate Evil Dead or its sequels". But everyone forgets to mention one thing, maybe they know it but it doesnt come to mind rightaway. Evil Dead is a LANDMARK film. Any film which came before it didnt concentrate on 100% horror, there were characters, story telling, etc. before the horror was rolled out.
But Evil Dead starts off with that bizarre Raimi style camera roll which depicts an ancient demon stirring and waking up in that old abandoned pool in the forest, and the truck swiping right in front of the car at the beginning is the first jump of a series of jumps. Then the wooden swinging chair thumping into the house, and abruptly stopping when someone approaches the door, thats a classic jump. Evil Dead 2 concentrated more on the humour part and succeeded quite well. To me it will be Aliens which followed Alien, not exactly the same analogy but you know what I mean. Army of Darkness was equally great as part II, but the basis of the story was medieval evil. Bruce Campbell made part III great, plus Raimi's unique film-making made it even more better. I remember Army of Darkness having a different ending, when Ash takes one extra drop than the precribed drops and wakes up in the future. It was an interesting introduction to Evil Dead 4 possibly, but maybe Raimi had enough and shot a different ending to part III and thats what we see today.
All 3 films are great in their own way, and Evil Dead will always be Alien, with part II being Aliens. It depends on which way you like your horror dished to you. Extreme and brutal, part I. Humor and gorific like Dead Alive, part II. Humor dashed with the Laurentiis medievil horror touch, part III.
I rate them part I, II & III, in the order they released. I think that as good as parts II and III are, they simply CAN NOT better the original, and what contribution it has given to the horror genre of cinema.

Evil Dead I & II (tie) 8.5-9/10
with Army of Darkness a few places behind. 7/10

hi
 

i have been longing to see this movie thanks