# Evil Dead v. Evil Dead 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682 "2005-12-02T04:06:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/1 "2005-12-02T04:06:59Z")
I finally saw the cult classic Evil Dead last night. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn is in my Netflix queue. But is there any point to actually seeing that movie? Other than an academic interest in seeing how to remake a film when you get a larger budget? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/2 "2005-12-02T04:18:47Z")
2 is funnier. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/3 "2005-12-02T04:19:09Z")
Um…yes. Because it’s\* Bruce Campbell\*. Duh. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/4 "2005-12-02T04:20:02Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > I finally saw the cult classic Evil Dead last night. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn is in my Netflix queue. But is there any point to actually seeing that movie? Other than an academic interest in seeing how to remake a film when you get a larger budget? Evil Dead 2 is barely a remake. It’s not even in the same genre. ED was a low-budget horror. ED2 is a slapstick comedy, and as such it’s brilliant. ED2 just happens to have most of teh plot of ED as its first act. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/5 "2005-12-02T05:25:56Z")
I love both. In fact, this may make me a heretic, but I like ED2 better then Army of Darkness. ED is a great horror movie, ED2 is a funny comedy-horror. Both are worth watching. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/6 "2005-12-02T05:32:57Z")
Army of Darkness is slapstick comedy. Evil Dead 2 is about as good a mix of horror and comedy as you’re going to find. You need to see both. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/7 "2005-12-02T06:26:21Z")
Does Ash tie a chainsaw to the stump of his severed hand and wied a sawn off shotty in the other in Evil Dead 1? There’s your answer right there! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/8 "2005-12-02T06:53:30Z")
Evil Dead 1 isn’t as groovy. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/9 "2005-12-02T07:02:58Z")
Evil Dead 2 is almost a parody of Evil Dead 1. While there are plenty of plot and event similarities, ED2 is aware, in a way ED was not, of the goofiness of the situations. This may not seem all that edgy given today’s irony-prone horror movies, but when ED2 did it, it was pretty fresh and new. Great flick. ED1 is boring. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-v-evil-dead-2/333682/10 "2005-12-02T07:17:49Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Evil Dead 1 isn’t as groovy. And he doesn’t dance with the lamp in ED 1 either. But ED1 does have tree rape.