The reboot had a sequel. Seemed to be well received, but this is my review!
In a random basement, a kid finds a book, and lo, are demons unleashed. That's all the setup we need, or get, and from that point on it's about the horror of family members being taken over and becoming evil. Although people largely immediately leap to "you aren't that person" and dealing to them, so that theme doesn't stick around, but that's what they were going for.
Now this is from a franchise that people liked, and the reboot movie.. happened. And this movie... also happens. Like, it is entirely independent of the previous movie, and about the only relation is that there is a book (not even the same book, just another random evil book) that incites things. And from that point on, this could be any horror movie in any franchise or any one off.
Which isn't to say this is a bad movie. It's well done, the effects are good, the story builds well (given it's a horror movie), but at no point am I saying "Hey, this is Evil Dead all right!". Not even a shotgun or a chainsaw is doing that.
Army of Dead could basically be considered unlinked to the previous cabin based movies, so it's not like they can't change up the formula/location, but if so, lean hard into this becoming an anthology series and don't pretend there's any kind of continuity worth acknowledging.
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