Weird movie kick.

I've been watching a lot of movies from the '80s and early '90s. Oh boy, have films changed. I remember as a kid, seeing anything from before the mid-'80s seemed old to me, and anything past that point seemed 'new'. This is no longer the case.

I can't really say the same about the last seventeen years. Anything beyond the 2000's in movies seems about the same to me, and the same is true for any game coming out after the mid-2000's.

Well, in any case, I finally sat down and watched the 'Evil Dead' series. I kind of felt like that aside from the increased budget in the second one, both Raimi and Campbell felt a little more comfortable with the mix between horror and comedy, and allowed themselves to go nuts. I was a little annoyed with how they played hard and loose with their own canon, but lost my shit when the chainsaw introduced in the first film, turned out to not be there . . . only for his dead girlfriend to come barreling through the door with it.

Then there's him shooting at his own evil hand with a shotgun, and that scene where he just starts cracking up with a bunch of possessed objects. Where the first one knew how to oddly juxtapose black humor onto horror, the second one knew how to get away actual hilarity.

The third one wasn't bad by any means, and I loved the switch to a medieval setting, and how off-the-wall bonkers that was, but it never quite came off as balanced as the second or even the first.

I also felt like Ash's chainsaw hand was woefully underused. If your movie is really just going to be mindless fun, then you might as well have Ash going on a zombie-killing rampage at one point. The series was long overdue for it, and the setting was perfect.