I think the Evil Dead trilogy easily gets 1st place with Nightmare on Elm Street & Saw a close 2nd. I liked the 1st Elm Street much better than the rest, and liked all the Saws; especially the first 5.

This is gonna be... controversial.

The only Evil Dead movies I whole-heartedly liked were the original and the remake. I have mixed feelings about the second one, and I didn't like the third one at all.

How could you not like Evil Dead 2 ... that was the best one I thought having just the right amount of humor to gore ratio, and the Army was a fun adventure with some good special effects.

I didn't really care for the remake because there was no Bruce Campbell or comedy ... it's just not the same without Bruce.

I generally agree. In my opinion, the remake was a solid go, I liked the return to a more serious tone. I did like Army of Darkness though and, of course, the original was a masterpiece. I do agree about the second one. Was never really a fan.

I generally don't like horror-comedies, with a few exceptions of course. The original was much more of a straight-up horror film.

The problem with me deciding which is my favorite franchise is that each of them have so many hits and misses in them that I go back and forth. Something like Friday the 13th doesn't have the best quality movies, but they tend to be fun to watch as a whole for a variety of reasons! Halloween, to me, has the better quality movies that sort of struggles nevertheless with plot and the gigantic holes in said plot I don't understand. Nightmare on Elm Street suffers, and I only speak for myself, because I kind of prefer my Freddy dark and terrifying and, clearly, Freddy became a wise-cracking icon for the 1980s which I can appreciate for what it was, but I still prefer dark and scary. lol Then there are so many others - Psycho, Hellraiser, Scream, and even lesser thought of films that sometimes don't come up in such a discussion like Night of the Demons, Jaws, Child's Play, etc. I think it would be a toss up between the Halloween and NoES series. No clear winner for me.

Evil Dead trilogy hands down, followed by Halloween.

I like others but it's usually just the first few that are really great, F13 being a huge example, though all of them are at least entertaining.

Halloween is my favorite even though 3 doesn't star Michael myers I still really like it but my favorites in the series are 1,2,4,5 and H20

H20 and 4 are my favorite sequels.

Let me ask all three of you this question...

Which Evil Dead film did you see first? Evil Dead (81) or Evil Dead II, or not 100% sure?