Absolutely ridiculous.

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2009)

Horror films now days aren't what they used to be. They now focus on sex and gore. Not that they didn't in the old days(the good ones), but now that is all a horror film is. I think that the best kind of horror film is one that is so ridiculous that it's funny. Like 2009's Drag me to hell. I loved that movie, because it stuck with the good old days. In the old days of horror, I loved The Evil dead because it was so ridiculous it was funny. Coincidentaly, both Drag me to hell and The Evil dead trilogy are from the same director.
The original Evil dead film was so ridiculously gory that it didn't even have a rating. So, I would think that Sam Raimi watched it and thought" this is quite funny" because in the first one I laughed my ass off.
The sequel was billed as a horror. But it was actually pretty hilarious. Sam Raimi decided to remake it and make it funnier. He did very well and turned these films into classics. Then, he got to the third film.
The third film is also billed as a horror. But you know what, even the third time I am sure Sam Raimi didn't aim for the horror. No way. Army of Darkness, the third part, is all comedy. Army of darkness is ridiculously funny, With scenes from The three stooges and other ridiculous things.
Army of darkness continues from the sequel. Ash(played by the always excellent Bruce Campbell), the department store, shot gun slinging, chainsaw armed survivor is sent back to the middle ages. There, he is to find the book of the dead and kill the army of the dead.
Here, plot doesn't really matter. Like in the first and second there wasn't much of one. The thing that is so great about these films is how ridiculous they are. It's really not a horror film at all. It's a comedy. Usually, in the third part of a trilogy, once it gets to the third part, it's the weakest. With this trilogy, none of them are weak.