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Snake - Why I Chose It - The final film in the Evil Dead trilogy, Army of Darkness is arguably the most recognizable film in the series, featuring Ash's most iconic quotes, as well as spinning off a whole sub-franchise of comics that crossed over with the likes of Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Dracula, and even Marvel Zombies.

My Thoughts - When it comes to the Evil Dead franchise, I have a love-hate relationship with it. It tries a balancing act between the serious and the absurd, and I don't think it always works that well. Evil Dead 2 did it best, fixing the mistakes of the first film with comedic overtones and giving the series more of an identity to itself. Army of Darkness too often loses me with a mess of tones and plot details and events, the only constant ever being Campbell's great central performance.

Johnbobb - So, I GET what they were going for here. But it wasn't my thing. In fact, I've been putting off watching this and the Evil Deads specifically because I felt like they weren't going to be my thing. In general I like Sam Raimi, and after seeing Drag Me To Hell and bits and pieces of the Evil Dead movies, I've had a general grasp of his style. It's kind of hit or miss, with Army of Darkness landing on the far side of "miss." The movie is mostly bad special effects and cheesy lines and goofy sound effects. Sometimes I can really dig this campy style, but honestly I just wasn't feeling it.

Charon - The longest, most horror filled Three Stooges episode of all time. As the film that "made" Evil Dead what is game to be, I feel very... unhappy with it. A lot of body humor and stupidity abound here. It's like, why are these guys just not killing Ash instead of playing games with him? It gets old pretty fast once you realize that's about all this movie has happen. The bad guys all run up, pull down his pants and stick their thumb in his ass and then he shoots them dead. It's not a fun time. I will say I appreciate Bruce Campbell making this character his own, I guess, but at the same time it's not really a character I can find much joy in. Every once in a while someone will say something funny, but it's mostly misses instead of hits for me.

Genny - I'm sure I'll get flak for this, but the Evil Dead series is just not my brand of humor. Army of Darkness to me was not even laughably bad, which is a major offense for a horror comedy. 4.4/10
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