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Hat tip to Repo before I begin my input. Without his generosity I wouldn't have Evil Dead in my VHS collection, therefore would not have watched it when I did and loved the shit out of it!
That said, the first was the one I saw first. And is also my favorite of the trilogy (series excluded since it's ongoing and I'm not caught up anyway). It is more memorable to me, and as a stand alone film it is a perfectly perfect horror movie. It has no rehashed bullshit 'previously on' clips before the movie that rewrite the story and confuse the audience who has seen the previous films. It's less silly and so keeps a wider range of audience with a more focused foe to fight, where as the sequels have dragons and shit? Although don't get me wrong, I love the skeleton army and effects of the third and second, I just find them at a more decent amount used in the first movie.
Considering Ash gets a motherfucking chainsaw arm in the second movie... this says a lot that I love the first more. AND CONSIDERING HE DOESN'T USE IT IN THE CLIMAX IN THE FINAL FIGHT OF THE THIRD MOVIE THAT ONE EASILY GETS KNOCKED OUT OF THE RUNNING.
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