Hot take: Evil Dead

The first movie has a really egregious sexual assault scene (from a tree of all things) that Raimi has been on record saying he regretted putting in the movie.

Evil Dead II is almost like a scene-for-scene remake with much better production, acting, script, etc and in my opinion fully replaces the original.

I’m glad I saw it if only to be able to compare with the improvements made from the original, but the first can reasonably be skipped entirely.