10 Horror Movie Sequels That DITCHED The Horror
9. Army of Darkness
Sam Raimi's Evil Dead is one of the most protean franchises in horror history, if not cinema as a whole.
The original The Evil Dead is a pretty straight-laced horror flick, while Evil Dead II daringly ventured into riotous slapstick-driven horror-comedy to enormous success.
For threequel Army of Darkness, Raimi switched things up again, to the extent that it can barely be called a horror movie at all - it ultimately feels like a dark fantasy action-comedy, centered around Ash (Bruce Campbell) as he battles the undead in the Middle Ages.
Army of Darkness is basically a campy fantasy film that just so happens to have time travel and Deadites in it.
To call it a far cry from the first two films, especially the first, is quite the understatement.
However, both 2013's Evil Dead remake and 2023's Evil Dead Rise returned to the gnarlier, less-kooky thrills of the original Evil Dead - a vibe which the series now seems to have settled on, seemingly for good.