Evil Dead - Watch Order: Release Order
The Evil Dead franchise began as Sam Raimi's low-budget horror masterpiece and evolved into a cult phenomenon blending horror and comedy. This watch order includes the complete franchise across different timelines and approaches.
The release order encompasses the original Ash Williams trilogy, a standalone 2013 remake with entirely different characters, and Evil Dead Rise which returns to the original universe but follows new characters in a modern setting. While not all films share narrative connections, they're united by the malevolent force of the Necronomicon and the franchise's signature blend of gore and dark humor.

Evil Dead II
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.

Army of Darkness
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

Evil Dead
Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

Evil Dead Rise
A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
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