I watched this as _Return of the Evil Dead_.
This is easily the worst installment in the series.
May as well just go through it, beat by beat: The movie takes place in a small town, during a party celebrating the evil knights templar - weird. At the party, our... "hero," Jack, gets in a fight, and, boy, is it bad. Wait, aren't we watching a horror movie? Not to worry, once the sun sets, the knights leave their graves. The continuity becomes parody-level bad here: it's night, then it's day, then it's night, then it's day. How am I supposed to take this seriously?
I was already having a hard time letting this play on, but it was about to get even worse: We get a scene with the governor - who is just trying to sleep, poor guy - his... "maid" tells him he has a phone call, as he's dealing with the phone, his "maid" is bent over, revealing her panties, the governor then puts on his glasses to get a better look. It was at this point the movie lost me. It was already made clear that these two are sexually involved. Why is he responding as if this is something new? Has he never seen her ass before? She then starts to - badly - act out that people at the party are drinking. I hate - **HATE** - comedy in horror!
Anyway, the knights attack the party. Our main group retreats to a church, then the movie turns into _Night of the Living Dead_.
For some strange reason, the knights just wait outside the church. One of the worst characters hatches a plan to get to a nearby car, involving a little girl. Yeah, what a guy. So, she walks straight into the group of animated corpses, no problem. Okay? Now, this douchebag, the mayor, sneaks by then... somehow. I mean, I get that they are blind, but it's selective, because they clearly have a way of tracking people and accurately attacking. So, that dude can't seem to maneuver past walking corpses who could get passed by a tortoise, so they kill him. Yay!
Once the other people notice the little girl is outside, they go to save her. She states that she is too scared to move - meanwhile, the knights are nowhere to be seen! Just a recap: she was brave enough to walk right at them, but now she's too scared to move. There is a constant theme in this movie where to characters are too dumb to live. It's really just a sign of bad writing. You know, characters can be smart, do everything right, and still die... that works. If they are just stupid, well, I can't get invested, and I'd never want to watch the movie again.
How does the movie end? Well, our two survivors, along with the little girl, are going to chance "sneaking by" the blind dead, now that it is daytime. Because sneaking by the blind is easier during the day, than at night. Anticlimactic-ending time: the knights die when the sun is out. Yup, they are basically statues now. But wait, it was day in that one scene. So, you're telling me that scene where the knights are out during the daytime was shot, nothing was done to make it look like night, and they just kept it in the movie? How did this get made?
What a pile of garbage! The only way this could be entertaining is if it got the MST3K treatment.