10 Best Comfort Horror Movies

Sam Raimi's Evil Dead (1981) began a tradition of schlocky, tongue-in-cheek horror filmmaking that used the acting, aesthetic and budget of B-movie films in a more crowd-pleasing, mainstream context – though the trilogy took decades to break free of its kooky cult status.

The first of the series is as straight up as a film can get while still being a Raimi joint, following a group of friends to a cabin in the woods where they encounter evil spirits summoned from the demonic text the Necronomicon. While it certainly packs in a few laughs and unexpectedly fun moments, it still has enough seriousness to be scary. Its successor, Evil Dead II (1987), built on this legacy while simultaneously smashing it down, retconning the first film and starting somewhat afresh with a more wacky tone that made the best of Bruce Campbell's comic sensibilities, even if it lacked in story.

The '90s offering of the trio, Army Of Darkness (1992), turned the comedy up to 11 and took the Chin back to the middle-ages, with a chainsaw, an Oldsmobile and a crazy plot that sees Lord Arthur take on the army of darkness in a battle for the future of the human race.

What the film lacks in production value, it makes up for in one-liners, callbacks and ridiculous, off-the-wall undead ass-kicking, and there's never a bad time to stick it on, kick back and get groovy all over again.