Wow. This film can beat any other movie to a bloody pulp (except maybe DAWN OF THE DEAD). Sam Raimi's genius is definitly seen in this horror masterpiece! I belive the other two movies, even though they are very good, are highly over rated. They make the original look inferior. This is due in part to NEW LINE CINEMA not giving Sam the rights to the first film to do a recap for the sequel. That made him have to make up a new version, which meant no Cheryl, Scotty, or Shelly. So the Book of the Dead never got burned, Linda never got stabbed and all this other stuff. Army went along with this but it also had a flaw. At the end of ED2, Ash is hailed as a hero, but at the beginning of Army he's a slave! Oh well, I'm off topic.