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Evil Dead Rise review – solid horror reboot brings the gore

A well-made new chapter in Sam Raimi’s splatter series delivers some impressively nasty violence but fails to leave much of a lasting impression

T here was a surprisingly straight face attached to 2013’s bracingly nasty Evil Dead reboot, a surprise given both the knockabout humour of Sam Raimi’s original films and the genre landscape at the time. A visceral demonic body horror performed without a knowing wink and with a decent budget was not exactly run-of-the-mill back then and isn’t exactly commonplace now, despite the genre’s ever-increasing churn, and could explain why its robust box office performance didn’t immediately translate to more Evil outings.

A decade later at a time when dead franchises are coming back to life with more gusto than arguably ever before, Evil Dead Rise is an inevitable resurrection, following on from recent revivals of Scream, Hellraiser and Halloween and before we see more of The Exorcist , The Thing and Friday the 13th . Originally slated for an HBO Max premiere, it’s been wisely upgraded to a theatrical release, smart because of the genre’s consistent theatrical success and deserving because, unlike so many other straight-to-streaming productions, it looks and feels like a real movie. Irish writer-director Lee Cronin, whose debut, The Hole in the Ground , received polite acclaim back in 2019, has made an impressive leap to studio fare and while his film doesn’t have quite the horrifying impact of the last installment, it’s a solid stab.

Like his last film and for the first time within the Evil Dead series, Cronin focuses on a family unit: Beth (Lily Sullivan), sister Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) and Ellie’s three kids. Beth is taking a break from life on the road to visit them, grappling with an unwanted pregnancy while Ellie deals with a recent break-up. But family troubles are soon made insignificant when an earthquake releases a familiar cursed book and a violent struggle to stay alive ensues.

An Evil Dead film is known for a formula so set that it served as the most obvious inspiration for Drew Goddard’s fun-poking comedy The Cabin in the Woods: a group of youths experience hell when they head to … a cabin in the woods. Cronin starts off with a nod to this, a cold open showing just that but then rewinds a day and takes us to a soon-to-be-condemned apartment building in LA, something of a challenge as a writer trying to create believable constraints for a survival horror. Why wouldn’t they just … leave? His script does a decent enough job at explaining that away – the building is in a state of disrepair and so the earthquake manages to easily affect the elevator and stairs – although given the extremity of the situation (mum turns into masochistic demon early on), one wonders if they could have tried a little harder to escape.

As visually sleek as the film looks, and in the flattened world of cheaply cobbled together streaming content, it really does look rather pretty, Cronin never quite manages to create enough of the claustrophobic suspense such a setup requires. It’s all entertainingly deranged and mercifully brief but we’re never lured from the back to the edge of our seat by any of his frantic set pieces. There’s more than enough cutting and slashing and decapitating for the gorehounds and at times the violence can be inventively nasty but it’s also a little too other for it to cut that deep, a little too fantastical for any injury to feel like it’s happening to a body we can recognise as human. While the last film toyed with the theme of addiction, it came out before the horror genre at large had been infected by the obsession with making every story, no matter the fit, really about something more substantive (usually trauma ). Cronin’s follow-up is loosely about motherhood, and in an ultimately, and I believe unintentionally, sort of pro-life way, but it feels as though he’s merely including it in an almost obligatory manner, a nod to where we’re at right now, but without the heavy hand that so many other horror films have recently employed. He’s far more concerned with seeing how much blood he can use in one movie ( apparently more than 1,500 gallons ). Sullivan and Sutherland are committed as the good and bad sisters although Cronin’s script requires the former to sell some eye-rollingly dim-witted decisions, one involving a pair of headphones at a time of emergency that would be a struggle for even Meryl Streep to convince us.

Evil Dead Rise is a decent little splatter movie which contains just about enough to justify the franchise resurrection although perhaps not quite enough to demand that much more of it. For all of its gristle, we’re left very little to chew on.

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This review of Evil Dead Rise was initially published after the movie’s SXSW debut. It has been updated and republished for the film’s public theatrical release.

In terms of sheer scare factor, your mileage may vary with Evil Dead Rise . This spinoff of Sam Raimi’s iconic franchise upholds the manic glee of Sam Raimi’s original 1980s Evil Dead movies, but the violence falls somewhere between Fede Álvarez’s 2013 remake and Raimi’s comedy-heavy Evil Dead 2 . The kills are absolutely brutal and gnarly, the emphasis on child endangerment gives the action a new edge, and the tone is generally bleak and cruel.

And yet it still finds moments of levity. Though it’s far from a comedy, there are a lot of laughs in Evil Dead Rise — like a gag about an eyeball getting ripped out, then landing on someone’s mouth. Writer-director Lee Cronin has a solid handle on the scale between scary and funny, servicing both without undermining either. This is a film best seen with a massive horror-loving audience that takes the gruesome horror along with the silly jokes, that screams and cheers along with the action.

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A big part of why this movie’s more straightforward horrific take works is the change of formula. Instead of centering on victims in a cabin in the woods, it moves to the big city, where it follows a family being tormented by Deadites , the Evil Dead movies’ signature antagonists. There is no army of the undead here: Like the 1981 original, this film operates on a smaller scale — in this case, one Deadite. It plays more like a possession story than what modern moviegoers might expect from a “zombie movie.”

The role of the villain falls to Alyssa Sutherland as Ellie, a mother of three who winds up on the receiving end of a demonic possession after one of her kids — or as she puts it, her “titty-sucking parasite” — finds the Book of the Dead . Soon enough, she turns on her own children, trying to horrifically murder them in the worst ways possible using every tool in the house. (A cheese grater becomes a star.)

Beth (Lily Sullivan) nervously confronts her disturbed-looking syster Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) as Ellie’s three kids huddle behind her in a dark doorway in Evil Dead Rise

On the other end is Beth (Lily Sullivan), Ellie’s sister, who returns home when she freaks out over an unexpected positive pregnancy test. Once at the apartment, she’s forced to fight her own sister as everyone in her family turns on each other. Sullivan is fantastic, with Cronin giving her depth through hints of past trauma that make the character more rounded without taking away from the dumb fun of an Evil Dead movie. This isn’t “elevated horror” — don’t expect an A24 horror film about exploring grief — but the family aspect creates a dynamic with heavier emotions that connect viewers to the characters while still prioritizing the gross-out scares.

Once Ellie is possessed, the film catches its second wind and goes fully off the rails in the best way. Ellie immediately turns on her family, threatening, scaring, and hunting them, but also insulting them. At the same time, even Deadite Ellie still loves her children, and she often begs to be stopped.

Cronin uses his location to its maximum potential. Everyday objects take on new and more sinister vibes as they make their way to the characters. There’s a feeling of claustrophobia throughout the film, with characters given little chance to escape the apartment. Cronin and his team have a clear love for practical effects, seen in the sheer amount of tactile, physical blood on screen. He also has a love for the Evil Dead movies: Cronin packs the script and screen with as many visual references and homages to the original Sam Raimi films as he can, overloading the film with fan service, from iconic weapons to lines of dialogue and even the choices of shots.

Newly possessed Deadite Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) hisses through a blackened mouth while clinging to a wall in her dark apartment in Evil Dead Rise

Evil Dead Rise is a movie made by sickos for sickos. It’s a fantastic update to the iconic franchise, filled with humor but bringing in Álvarez’s taste for the disgusting and upsetting. The refreshing change in scenery and cast, plus Sutherland’s breakout performance, proves this undead franchise still has a lot of life and fight in it.

At 97 lively minutes, it does feel like it’s over almost as soon as it begins. It’s a perfect onboarding movie for newer audiences who’ve never seen an Evil Dead movie, but for longtime fans, it breathes new air into a classic horror-comedy franchise, mixing Raimi’s old-school approach with the new school of gruesome horror. It proves there’s still a lot to color in within the old dead-lines.

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Evil Dead Rise Review: Heaps Of Grueling Terror, Albeit Not The Ultimate Experience

Evil dead rise will likely be reflected upon as one of the best horror movies of 2023..

Forty-two years after the release of director Sam Raimi ’s The Evil Dead , the franchise it inspired has split into two branches. On one side, you have the horrifically goofy adventures of Bruce Campbell’s Ashley Joanne Williams – with the comedic tonal shift in 1987’s Evil Dead II and 1992’s Army Of Darkness preserved in recent years with the 2015 Starz television series Ash vs. Evil Dead and 2022’s Evil Dead: The Game . On the other side, however, you have movies that aim to deliver on the memorable promise of the original: the ultimate experience in grueling terror. Director Fede Álvarez ferociously took that baton and ran with it in the making of 2013’s Evil Dead (a film with some of the most savage visuals of any wide release in the 21st century), and that reboot/remake/spin-off essentially paved the way for the creation of Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise .

Release Date: April 21, 2023 Directed By: Lee Cronin Written By: Lee Cronin Starring: Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Gabrielle Echols, Morgan Davies, and Nell Fisher Rating: R for strong bloody horror violence and gore, and some language Runtime: 97 minutes

So what makes for a satisfying Evil Dead story in the year 2023? Specific canon isn’t a priority, but there is certain beloved iconography that is a must; the notorious book known as the Necronomicon has to be at the center of everything; and, of course, there needs to be gallons upon gallons of blood. Evil Dead Rise is a film that checks all of these boxes with demonic glee, offering up a hellish, horrific fright-fest in so doing, and while it never quite reaches the legendary heights of its predecessors, it’s a worthy and welcome addition to the franchise.

One of the bits of iconography mostly left behind with the new movie is the classic cabin in the woods setup, as Evil Dead Rise keeps the action urban this time around – specifically within the confines of a Los Angeles apartment building. Beth (Lily Sullivan), a guitar technician who spends most of her life on rock tours, reunites with her estranged sister Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) when she learns that she is pregnant and needs help, but her timing couldn’t be worse because Ellie and her three kids, Bridget (Gabrielle Echols), Danny (Morgan Davies), and Kassie (Nell Fisher), are in the process of moving out of their home.

When an earthquake hits and cracks the floor of the building’s parking garage, Caleb discovers a creepy book and a collection of records, and after bringing the discovers up to his room, he, being an aspiring DJ, spins the vinyl up on his record player. Unfortunately for the family, what he listens to is a recording of a group of priests reading a passage from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis – The Book Of The Dead – and the simple audible recitation resurrects a long dormant evil. The first person that this evil runs into is Ellie, transforming her into a chaotic, soul-hungry Deadite, and Beth must summon every maternal instinct she has to try and protect her nieces and nephew from their now-monstrous mom.

Evil Dead Rise doesn’t work quite as well as 2013’s Evil Dead, but it still has a lot to offer franchise and genre fans.

Judging the film as a new entry into the Evil Dead series, Evil Dead Rise is more appropriately lined up against 2013’s Evil Dead than Sam Raimi’s original trilogy, both because they are part of the same “generation” and because the comparison best highlights what it does well versus its areas of lacking. For example, in the same way that Fede Álvarez’s movie works to create a metaphor for drug addiction with the supernatural horror at the center of the plot, Lee Cronin’s sets up an allegory about motherhood – which is effective, though the commentary doesn’t click on quite the same level. It can also certainly be said that the new release unleashes some bold and extreme efforts to shock and traumatize audiences (including creative use of a cheese grater, some eye biting, and the formation of a nightmarish Deadite abomination), but it also doesn’t deliver anything that melts your brain quite like seeing Jane Levy ’s Mia split her tongue by licking a box cutter or Jessica Lucas' Olivia carve up her face with a slice of broken mirror.

While some in-franchise comparisons don’t do it favors, Evil Dead Rise is nonetheless a horrific and bloody ride that unquestionably has a deep love for the films that preceded it in the series, and it finds some great ways to play with classic elements. Despite it being set in a city instead of the middle of the woods, the film finds effective and scary ways to cut the characters off from the rest of world, maintaining a key level of peril, and in collaboration with cinematographer Dave Garbett, Cronin finds some terrific moments to homage the auteur style of Sam Raimi. The Necronomicon has a terrific new look that comes with some fascinating fresh history, and audiences who go into the movie craving some chainsaw action certainly won’t leave disappointed.

If you ever think that Evil Dead Rise is pulling some of its punches, just wait five minutes.

As far as standing out within the franchise is concerned, one key element in play is the inclusion of children – which ends up having an impact on both the pacing and the stakes. Unlike The Evil Dead and the 2013 film, this isn’t a cinematic experience that can be described as “unrelenting,” as there are breaks in the action that cool things down a bit as Beth tries her best to both physically and emotionally protect her nieces and nephew. But it’s also worth noting that just as you might think that the movie is playing things too safe with its young characters, Cronin says, “Not so fast.” Saying too much more would end up spoiling the fun, but it certainly can be said that the horrific ride that it puts you on isn’t softened in any way because there are kids involved, and that ultimately heightens everything in Evil Dead Rise .

The fifth film in the Evil Dead canon is arguably its weakest, but that really says more about the strength of the franchise than its latest chapter, as it will likely be reflected upon as one of the best horror movies of 2023 . Devilish and sick ideas are executed with exciting panache, gasp and scream-inducing moments are ubiquitous, and as a cherry on top, we get an awesome new franchise heroine in Lily Sullivan’s badass Beth. Evil Dead Rise is the treat that gore-hounds want it to be – a true crowd-pleaser for midnight movie-goers – and we can only hope that we won’t have to wait another full decade for the next feature.

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The matriarch of a family ends up demon-possessed in this blood-drenched entry in the long-running horror franchise.

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The horror movie, a genre known for sparsely populated locales like cabins in the woods and outer space, has been spending more time in the city.

Some of the most creative scary movies of the past decade have taken place in an abandoned Detroit (“Barbarian,” “Don’t Breathe,” “It Follows”). In the recent “Scream,” Ghostface moved from the suburbs to the subway. And now the latest entry in the “Evil Dead” franchise spills swimming pools of blood mostly inside a dilapidated high-rise apartment in Los Angeles.

One might explain the rise of urban horror as working on fears rooted in rising crime or the pandemic’s emptying out of downtowns, but that focuses more on content than form. And the pumping heart of the “Evil Dead” movies has never been ideas, but aesthetics. Sam Raimi’s original trilogy made stylish Grand Guignol gore that evoked Jean-Luc Godard’s response to a question about why he used so much blood. “Not blood,” he corrected. “Red.”

Lee Cronin, who directed “Evil Dead Rise” with many more colors of bodily fluid, is a meticulous creator of stunning shots. His camera doesn’t move. It dances, shifting, spinning, occasionally knocked on its side like a running back in a collision. He avoids clichés like a face suddenly appearing in a mirror but finds new ways to scare with the reflection of an image. And the way he mixes the foreground and background is pleasingly disorienting. For him, clearly, the city offers a new palette. He does wonders with the warped view through a keyhole of an apartment. The trees that come alive and tie down victims in the original “Evil Dead” are replaced by rusty and aggressive wires from a rickety elevator.

As for the plot, who cares? As with every “Evil Dead,” a creepy book is found and demonic hell breaks loose. That’s all that matters. This time, the characters are not a group of friends but a family, including a tattoo-artist mother, Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland), her kids (Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, Nell Fisher) and their chain saw-wielding aunt (Lily Sullivan). But this shift also doesn’t make that much of a difference. There are so many horror movies these days that dig deeper into the anxieties and fears of family and motherhood; though still, bravo to whoever came up with the tagline: “Mommy loves you to death.”

Character and story are secondary to an atmosphere of industrial gloom, clanking heaters, ambient neighbor noise and the clutter of families cramped together. There is a spectacular new monster at the end, and the most disturbing set pieces involve ordinary household objects like (gulp) a cheese grater.

The previous “Evil Dead” movie from a decade ago was a more direct reboot, while this one pays homage to the past, but not too much. It opens with the signature shot of the franchise, a racing camera, low to the ground, but this sets up not a scare, but a joke — one I won’t ruin, but that pokes fun at the original, breaks the fourth wall and announces a new day. And yet, with a few exceptions, largely from the performance of Sutherland, who captures some of the borscht belt swagger of Freddy Krueger, it’s the last moment of arch comedy.

With the original “Evil Dead” and particularly its sequel, Raimi didn’t just make splatter beautiful. He proved it could be hilarious. The two recent movies are far more grim. Even though there is an inherent absurdity to the excess on display, they seem less interested in the humor of horror. The absence of Bruce Campbell, the hammy protagonist of the original trilogy, is felt. Scary villains are a dime a dozen, but a funny hero? They’re hard to come by.

Evil Dead Rise Rated R for elevators of blood and sharp objects near eyeballs. Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes. In theaters.

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Just a skosh more than a decade after Fede Alvarez’s carnage-crammed “Evil Dead” reboot jump-started the horror franchise spawned by Sam Raimi’s low-budget 1981 cult favorite, writer-director Lee Cronin has delivered his own imaginatively scary take on the “Book of the Dead” mythos with “ Evil Dead Rise .” A kinda-sorta sequel, it offers incontrovertible evidence that predatory and possessive bogeymen are just as frightful when their hunting ground shifts from a cabin in a dark corner of the woods to a gone-to-seed apartment building in downtown Los Angeles.

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Naturally, there’s a power outage that requires the apartment to be dimly lit with candles and flashlights — and enables Cronin to spring at least two shamelessly efficient jump scares by framing characters in the foreground blissfully unaware of bad things popping up in the background. In keeping with “Evil Dead” tradition, there’s also an abundance of bloody mayhem that increases exponentially until a hugely satisfying and splatterific climax. And yes, to answer the inevitable question: A chainsaw figures into the mix, as does the iconic phrase “Dead by dawn!”

“Evil Dead Rises” — which, like Alvarez’s “Evil Dead,” premiered to an extremely receptive audience at SXSW — may well be a one-off for all parties involved. Still, Sullivan and Sutherland handily establish their scream queen bona fides, so it shouldn’t be surprising if we see both actors making return appearances in the horror genre. Nor should it be surprising if we don’t have to wait another decade before the franchise carries on.

Reviewed at SXSW Film Festival (Headliners), March 15, 2023. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 96 MIN.

Production: A Warner Bros. release of a New Line Cinema/Renaissance Pictures presentation of a Pacific Renaissance, Wild Atlantic Pictures production. Producer: Rob Tapert. Executive producers: Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, John Keville, Macdara Kelleher, Richard Brener, Dave Neustadter, Romel Adam, Victoria Palmeri.
Crew: Director, screenplay: Lee Cronin. Camera: Dave Garbett. Editor: Bryan Shaw. Music: Stephen McKeon.
With: Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, Nell Fisher.

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Evil Dead Rise is the year's best horror movie

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Evil Dead fans might be disappointed not to see Bruce Campbell back as Ash Williams, but Evil Dead (2013) showed that this universe is big enough for another Deadite slayer. And we have a feeling that Ash would very much approve of Lily Sullivan's Beth .

She's back in Los Angeles for a reunion with her estranged sister Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) and her three children. But any thoughts of reconciliation are put aside by the discovery of a mysterious book in the basement of Ellie's building, and the sisters soon find themselves battling flesh-possessing demons.

After all, this is an Evil Dead movie, so a family reunion was always going to involve injuries by cheese-grater and not an afternoon tea in the park.

While Evil Dead Rise does switch things up and takes place largely in the city, writer/director Lee Cronin – responsible for 2019's standout horror The Hole in the Ground – does get to stage his own traditional Evil Dead movie at the beginning.

The cold open is set at a cabin by the lake as Caleb (Richard Crouchley) and Teresa (Mirabai Pease) come to realise their friend Jessica (Anna-Maree Thomas) isn't doing too well. Cue a scalping and a self-inflicted injury with a drone as Cronin sets the tone for what's to come. As Paul Thomas Anderson might put it: there will be blood.

After this shock to the system, the smartest thing Cronin does is to slow things down. Evil Dead Rise takes time to establish Beth and Ellie's fraught relationship, while also sowing the seeds for where the story will go and the themes explored. (Hint, it'll involve the horrors of motherhood.)

As soon as that Necronomicon is discovered and unwittingly opened, Cronin knows the shit has to hit the fan and gleefully makes it so, leaving nobody safe from the Deadite carnage. The movie shifts into an intense, gore-soaked horror experience with few pauses for breath, but the emotional work done in the first act means it's not just about the bloody thrills.

Those bloody thrills sure are excellent, though. The cheese grater has already gone viral, yet it's far from the only notable horror gag. From a murder spree filmed entirely through a door peephole to other household implements used in nasty ways, Evil Dead Rise will leave no horror fan feeling short-changed.

It might not be set at a cabin for the most part, but the new movie has the Evil Dead spirit because as gross as it can be, it's also very funny. The Deadites have always been the more playful of cinematic demons, a theme which continues here, although it never veers into slapstick like some of the original trilogy.

Another element of classic Evil Dead is in the use of practical effects that make the big moments – from an eyeball chew to a blood-filled elevator – more impactful. Bolstered by physically committed performances from Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland, the movie feels real, which heightens the wince factor.

The effective combination of scares, gore and dark humour make it clear this is a movie made by fans of the series. It's far from a slavish recreation of what's come before and more of a twisted love letter to the franchise. Fans will get familiar elements and plentiful Easter eggs, but the story has fresh bones (and blood).

By the time Evil Dead Rise 's blood-drenched (soaked doesn't quite cover it) finale comes around, you'll realise that the most impressive aspect is that you don't even need Ash. Lily Sullivan's Beth is a new horror heroine and when she picks up the chainsaw, it's a crowd pleasing 'f**k yeah' moment.

You'll probably feel as exhausted as Beth by the end of Evil Dead Rise , but totally satisfied with the ride you've been on. It's the best horror movie of 2023 to date and you wouldn't bet against it remaining there by the end of the year.

Evil Dead Rise is out now in cinemas.

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Just as Scream 6 escapes Woodsboro to see Ghostface hit Manhattan, Evil Dead Rise elects to up sticks from its customary woodland cabin (well, a fun prologue aside) and head for Los Angeles. But whereas S6s action takes in New York’s sights, this reboot has no interest in LA’s lights, instead keeping things contained and claustrophobic in a condemned apartment block as events furiously unfurl over one long night.

Primarily set in an apartment inhabited by tattoo artist Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) and her kids Bridget (Gabrielle Echols), Danny (Morgan Davies) and Kassie (Nell Fisher), the mayhem begins with the arrival of Ellie’s sister Beth (Lily Sullivan), a guitar technician (or ‘groupie’, as Ellie has it) with a history of messing up.

Beth’s back for a reason, but her troubles are rendered trivial when an earthquake opens a vault beneath the block, and the investigating Danny emerges clutching the Book of the Dead. No sooner can you say ‘Kandar!’ than rotting, rage-filled Deadites are toying with this well-drawn, likeable family.

By ‘toying’ we mean, of course, possessing and then spectacularly dismembering, with gallons of gore unleashed through creative use of guns, knives, scissors, broken glass, a screwdriver, a cheese grater (!) and, naturally, a chainsaw. The principle of Chekov’s, um, mop is employed to particularly bloody effect. And if there’s one thing that Deadites like more than blood, it’s vomit, as evidenced by the bile, worms and eyeballs that are variously choked up. Hell, at one point viewers get the full bingo card as a character spews blood, and lots of it.

Truth be told, the building’s desaturated colour scheme and sepulchral interior design benefit from a splash of red – or a tidal wave of it, as when writer/director Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground) gives us an elevator scene inspired by Kubrick’s The Shining .

OK, this Evil Dead entry can’t Rise to Raimi’s first two movies for kamikaze camera moves, while the moments of humour, though decent, fall short of Bruce Campbell’s splatstick antics. What’s more, the Deadites now seem to be mimicking Japanese ghost girls – all tics and twitches, clacks and cracks. But this easily surpasses Fede Alvarez’s overrated 2013 reboot and suggests there’s plenty more life – and death – in the franchise yet. Groovy.

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Not many horror franchises can keep the red stuff spurting without getting dusty and stale as a pile of bones, but Sam Raimi’s rollicking “Evil Dead” series has spent the last 42 years reanimating itself with persistent aplomb. (See: 1981’s seminal “The Evil Dead,” 1987’s campier “Evil Dead II,” 1992’s horror-fantasy “Army of Darkness,” the grimly serious 2013 reboot and Starz’s giddily unserious “Ash vs. Evil Dead.” ) Even in its scalp-ripping scream of an opener, the new “Evil Dead Rise” makes a cheeky feint toward the familiar, so you’d be forgiven for expecting more of the same from the fright franchise that’s inspired countless imitators.

A swift change of scenery, however, smartly trades the original’s cabin in the woods setting, now an overdone genre staple, for a new one: a decaying Los Angeles Art Deco apartment tower, where estranged sisters Beth (Lily Sullivan) and Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) and Ellie’s three kids are about to have their lives upended by a certain gruesome grimoire. A fresh pivot that starts out strong before caving to fan service, this femme-centered installment at least doesn’t skimp on visceral horrors and black humor, finding inventive ways to make its audience cringe, cower and cackle as it puts its heroines through hell.

They’ve already got plenty to deal with, even before sinister forces come knocking at the door. Harried tattoo artist Ellie has been left high and dry by her deadbeat ex, and their crumbling building is set to be demolished. Beth, a rock chick roadie, has, alas, been saddled with the lazy screenwriter’s go-to plot device for female characters — an unplanned pregnancy! — and has finally come to ask her big sis for guidance. Everyone in this family is wrestling with their own baggage, while even the youngest daughter, Kassie (Nell Fisher), has resorted to impaling a doll’s head onto a stick she’s named “Staffanie” to keep herself company.

Untethered canonically from Fede Alvarez’s more serious and lore-heavy 2013 “Evil Dead,” which fleetingly featured Bruce Campbell as iconic hero Ash, “Evil Dead Rise” instead allows writer-director Lee Cronin (“The Hole in the Ground”) to selectively expand the universe around its signature hallmarks — including the semi-sentient Necronomicon, bound in human skin and razored teeth, which beckons to Ellie’s wannabe DJ son, Danny (Morgan Davies), from a long-buried tomb beneath the building cracked open by a pesky L.A. earthquake.

Records featuring mysterious incantations accompany the book, but like plenty of unwise “Evil Dead” characters before him, curiosity gets the better of Danny in an opening act that introduces intriguing details that get muddled and lost as the thrill ride ramps up. “Weird s— like this gets locked away for a reason,” warns his pragmatic sister, Bridget (Gabrielle Echols, bringing poise and main character energy to a middle-child role). Danny spins the cursed vinyl anyway, and before you know it, a familiar disembodied demon is speeding its way through the apartment complex in search of a human host.

Once the parasite worms its way into Ellie after a bone-crunching tangle in the apartment’s elevator, Sutherland, known for her roles on “Vikings” and “The Mist,” unleashes one of the more maniacal horror performances in years. Taking inspiration not from scary movies but Jim Carrey’s rubber-faced turn in “The Mask,” per the Australian actor, her Deadite Mommie Dearest becomes a terrifying vessel for chaos and destruction of the bodily and emotional kind, hilariously horrific as she levitates, expectorates, crab walks, crawls up the walls, menaces the neighbors and taunts her own children with quotable lines like, “Mommy’s with the maggots now.”

Mileage may vary for what audiences crave, and can take, when it comes to the gruesomely R-rated parade of stomach-churning gore, goo, barf and blood that ensues in and around this increasingly claustrophobic apartment, where a few neighbors have helpfully stuck around to contribute to the film’s body count. (Credit to special effects supervisor Brendan Durey and prosthetic makeup designer Luke Polti for top-notch wince-inducing work, buoyed by a 6,500-liter fake-blood budget.) Adding to Hollywood’s recent spate of boldly batty genre pictures, Cronin wields violence like a finely tuned instrument, with a wickedly funny sense for weaponizing sharp objects, kitchen appliances, fraught family dynamics — and, memorably, a cheese grater — for maximum impact.

Distinctive technical craft also goes a long way in helping this “Evil Dead” rise above its narrative shortcomings. Lush, moody lensing by cinematographer Dave Garbett, inspired by the eerily surreal photographs of Gregory Crewdson, create pools of light and shadow that lend the building an ominous life of its own. Production designer Nick Bassett’s jewel-toned interiors, cracked basement garage and long, forbidding hallway evoke a sense of dread and decay even before the supernatural nightmare begins, as if the past has already trapped its human inhabitants in a 14-story purgatory without them realizing it.

Even something as simple as the view through the peephole in the apartment door sets up one of the film’s best sequences. Cronin’s exceptionally ambitious visuals keep the proceedings interesting, creating a sense of adrenalizing, off-kilter unpredictability to match what his dwindling number of humans are experiencing as they inevitably fall to the Deadite swarm.

Magnifying every moment of tension and terror is the immersive sound design by Peter Albrechtsen and distressed orchestral score by Stephen McKeon, both of whom weave unsettling vocals into the aural tapestry of the film.

On-the-nose writing, unfortunately, emerges as the real bane of “Evil Dead Rise” as the story drags in its back half despite memorable kills and the introduction of a grotesque new monster that keeps the action going at an unrelenting pace. The movie doesn’t require a conspicuously out-of-place nod to “The Shining” or the many self-referential nods to its own franchise highlight reel to keep viewers hooked, but it can’t resist making characters and even swarms of the undead shout out its most iconic lines, forcing the absurdism of the original films into tonal dissonance with the rest of the film.

Not that Beth needs to be saddled with that tired old saw of impending motherhood, either, a shortcut to heroism made redundant and practically moot by the film’s end. It’s the kind of shoehorned-in detail that plays like a studio note, one Sullivan, in her committed and expressive performance, doesn’t need in order to make Beth a compelling or complex figure.

Try as it might to expand the “Evil Dead” universe beyond its most famous chainsaw-wielding character, the film isn’t permitted to escape his shadow. (Sharp-eared viewers may, however, recognize Campbell’s voice in one under-the-radar cameo.) Instead, it chooses the pandering route designed to get die-hards pointing at the screen in its big, bloody finale. Too many contrivances set up a final showdown, when a wood chipper and a chainsaw just happen to be lying around a deserted DTLA garage on a stormy night.

One can imagine what new life “Evil Dead Rise” could have injected into the franchise without those hamstrings, free of the creative tension between servicing an existing IP and reinvigorating it in the spirit of its renegade origins. Cronin, planting a virtuosic flag in his second feature as director, has at least given the “Evil Dead” franchise a crowd-pleasing new chapter that opens the door to a connected universe uniting the previous films and series. It really leaves us wondering how he’d build his own.

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‘evil dead rise’ review: a wonderfully sick new installment in the beloved horror franchise.

In the latest entry in Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's series, a mother and her children must fight the demonic forces in their apartment.

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In Evil Dead Rise , Lee Cronin shows the depth of his twisted mind and a commitment to the spirit of Sam Raimi’s franchise.

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In some ways, Evil Dead Rise is as much an homage as it is a corrective to Raimi’s original low-budget treat, which has been called out for its shallow and misogynistic treatment of women. They are not only widely considered underwritten, but also endure the most sadistic scenes. The women who populate Cronin’s film don’t suffer any less at the hands of the demonic spirits, but at least they have the chance to lead the charge in their own salvation.

Fans of the franchise can guess what happens when an earthquake reveals an underground tomb beneath Ellie’s soon-to-be-demolished building. Curiosity overtakes her kids, whom she sent out to get pizza. Danny is especially keen on exploring the mysterious lockers and dusty artifacts in the cavern. Against his sister Bridget’s protests, the audiophile grabs a few records and the Necronomicon , that familiar flesh-bound book. Cronin (The Hole in the Ground) uses the full capacities of FX to elevate almost every element of Evil Dead , including the book, which contains pages of blood-inked drawings and whose incantations are only revealed with the accompanying vinyl discs.

Cronin sets his version of Evil Dead in in Ellie’s city apartment, creating a more claustrophobic, chamber drama-esque horror. His style — a destabilizing mix of camera tilts and zooms, a color palette dominated by an eerie blend of navy, berry, cobalt and indigo — conjures an atmosphere of fear and distrust. There’s also a haunting, staccato experimentation with the sound design (by Peter Albrechtsen), which seesaws between brash noises and complete silence.

A possessed Ellie drags herself back to the apartment, her steps creating menacing thuds, and heads straight into the kitchen, where she methodically cracks eggs into a cast iron skillet. Cronin’s screenplay is light on character development, but there’s a deep interest — in the tradition of Rosemary’s Baby or the more recent Huesera — in teasing out the terrors of motherhood. The satanic spirits inside Ellie manipulate the bond between mother and children to trick Danny, Bridget and Kassie. Cooking, singing lullabies and bath time all adopt sinister undertones because of Sutherland’s limber and frightening performance.

Cronin’s skilled direction extends beyond his actors. It wouldn’t be an Evil Dead installment without maximum gore and blood, and the director doesn’t disappoint. He ratchets up tension by making each act of torture more inspired than the last. Cookware and other kitchen finds become perverse tools for maiming flesh and wreaking havoc. Each room in the apartment teeters between safe haven and battleground. Blood is everywhere — penetrating the walls of an elevator and dripping from various orifices. Evil Dead Rise is unrelenting in this way, even with the touches of pressure-alleviating humor. Cronin’s film is a wonderfully sick series entry, deftly calibrated to satisfy fans and traumatize the uninitiated.

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The Evil Dead Reviews

No matter how many directors return to that forest, it's unlikely anyone will ever reproduce Evil Dead's weaponized feral clunkiness

Full Review | Mar 19, 2024

Sam Raimi’s 1981 breakout feature remains profoundly unsettling due to the gonzo vigour with which he attacks his subject.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2023

... such a bravura bit of cinematic inventiveness that it’s too much fun to be genuinely grueling, but this unrelenting parade of funhouse terrors and creative low budget effects is one of the most entertaining American horror films of its time.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2023

It is brutally violent and unrelentingly gory, yet it is also the work of an artist with a passion for the craft.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2023

It may not be serious, but it's totally sincere; it never laughs at its own jokes. In fact, I'm not sure it even gets them. And you can't help but respond to Evil Dead at some level beyond the usual horror-movie fright and disgust.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 24, 2023

Sam Raimi's technique is equal to his perverse imagination. In his first directorial outing, he's already got a flair for the visual grammar of horror movies that John Carpenter might envy.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2023

Raimi has managed all of this with such gusto and excess, it is never sordid in the way that many of the video nasties can be. In fact, it is all so over the top, Raimi has probably done for the horror film what the James Bond films did for the spy story.

What The Evil Dead may lack in budget or sophistication it more than compensates for in raw power. The terror is relentless and unstoppable.

Although idiotic, The Evil Dead at least is propelled by energy and enthusiasm. It's scarier than many a more pretentious effort, and not everything in it is borrowed.

A child with a king-sized bottle of ketchup and a spark of imagination could do better.

A handily told scare-story which employs splatter effects in a caricatured way to accent a relentless mounting tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2023

A film of low aspirations and moderately effective achievements. Too bad it's hog-tied by a ridiculously familiar plot, uneven direction and characters of such dizzying simplicity that you wish the demons would get to them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2023

I'm not saying that either Raimi or his film is very good, but there is no doubt that the kid is resourceful and that his movie is an original.

This disgusting gush of gore is aggressively sloshed around before the film finally runs out of characters and gurgles to a stop. By then, the action has become numbingly redundant, if not downright anemic.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 24, 2023

We need a movie like this about as much as the Creature from the Black Lagoon needed swimming lessons.

Scary and stylish, but Raimi has a saving hilarious sense of humor and the sense to move too fast to become morbid.

There's a kind of manic energy on show that's praiseworthy. But the general tone of The Evil Dead is ludicrously bananas, like a Friday the 13th for even more backward teenagers.

A good idea is turned into merely a gory exercise in this banal script.

Disgusting, yes. Scary? No way. The Evil Dead is my nominee thus far as the Plan Nine From Outer Space of the '80s.

It assaults your sensibilities like the D-Day invasion force and it buries you in corpses up to your eyeballs, but it has no central idea. It has no idea at all. Knock, knock, who's there? Nobody.

The 'Evil Dead' Will Rise Again With New Film from Writer/Director Francis Galluppi

The director's first feature, 'The Last Stop In Yuma County,' will be released next month.

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The Evil Dead franchise began with a low-budget film in 1981, spawning sequels, a TV series, and a 2013 remake, grossing over $150 million.
Director Francis Galluppi impressed Sam Raimi with his storytelling skills, earning the opportunity to helm a new Evil Dead movie.
Raimi plans to continue expanding the Evil Dead universe with new movies every two to three years. Stay tuned for updates on Galluppi's project.

The Evil Dead are set to rise again. Filmmaker Francis Galluppi has been tapped to write and direct a new movie in the immortal horror franchise. Deadline reports that Galluppi approached Evil Dead impresario Sam Raimi with a proposal for the franchise, which impressed him enough to metaphorically hand over the keys to his filmic Oldsmobile Delta 88 .

In a statement, Raimi lavished praise on the filmmaker, saying "Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence. He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut." That feature debut, the crime thriller The Last Stop in Yuma County , premiered at last year's Fantastic Fest and is scheduled to be released on digital and in select theaters on May 10. The tale of a knife salesman stranded at a remote rest stop with a pair of bank robbers, it stars Jim Cummings , Jocelin Donahue , and Richard Brake . Prior to making the film, Galluppi directed several music videos for the indie rock band Mt. Joy .

What is 'The Evil Dead'?

The Evil Dead franchise is proof that success can come from even the humblest beginnings. In this case, those humble beginnings are a movie made with five unknown actors (including Bruce Campbell ), some goopy special effects, and less than $400,000 USD. The resulting 1981 film, The Evil Dead , told the tale of a group of friends who accidentally unleashed the evil of the ancient Necronomicon , and became a cult hit. The 1985 sequel, Evil Dead II , added Raimi's love of slapstick comedy into the mix, and spawned a third film, the medieval horror comedy Army of Darkness . Fede Álvarez remade the original film in 2013, and a Campbell-led TV series, Ash vs. Evil Dead , ran for three seasons on Starz. Most recently, Lee Cronin 's Evil Dead Rise hit theaters in 2023, earning nearly $150 million USD to make it the highest-grossing (emphasis on "gross") of the series.

Galluppi's film isn't the only Evil Dead project in the works. According to longtime Raimi collaborator Bruce Campbell , Raimi intends to keep the gore flowing with new Evil Dead movies " every two to three years ".

Francis Galluppi's Evil Dead project is in the early stages of development; no release date has yet been set . Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

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New Line Cinema and Renaissance Pictures present a return to the iconic horror franchise, “Evil Dead Rise,” from writer/director Lee Cronin (“The Hole in the Ground”). The movie stars Lily Sullivan (“I Met a Girl,” “Barkskins”), Alyssa Sutherland (“The Mist,” “Vikings”), Morgan Davies (“Storm Boy,” “The End”), Gabrielle Echols (“Reminiscence”) and introducing Nell Fisher (“Northspur”).

Moving the action out of the woods and into the city, “Evil Dead Rise” tells a twisted tale of two estranged sisters, played by Sutherland and Sullivan, whose reunion is 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.

“Evil Dead Rise” is produced by Rob Tapert (“Ash vs Evil Dead,” “Don’t Breathe”) and executive produced by series creator and horror icon Sam Raimi and cult legend and “Ash” himself, Bruce Campbell, along with John Keville, Macdara Kelleher, Richard Brener, Dave Neustadter, Romel Adam and Victoria Palmieri.

Cronin is joined behind the camera by director of photography Dave Garbett (“Z for Zachariah,” “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans”), production designer Nick Bassett (“Guns Akimbo,” “Sweet Tooth”), editor Bryan Shaw (“Ash vs Evil Dead,” “Spartacus”) and costume designer Sarah Voon (“Chasing Great,” “Inside”), with a score by Stephen McKeon (“The Hole in the Ground,” “Primeval”).

A New Line Cinema / Renaissance Pictures presentation of a Pacific Renaissance and Wild Atlantic Pictures production, “Evil Dead Rise” will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and is set to open in theaters in North America on April 21, 2023 and internationally beginning 19 April 2023.

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For some 30 years now, small clusters of movie teenagers have made the journey to various cabins in various woods. The return ratio for such trips is one surviving, bloodied, traumatized, hospitalized teenager for every 10 dead friends left behind. And the ratio of entertaining, original movies about attractive young people and the hideous monsters that stalk them is about the same. For every clever remake or freshly twisted spin, there are innumerable gore fests with nothing original to say.

Hello, "Evil Dead," 2013 edition.

This isn't a strict remake of Sam Raimi 's hugely influential 1981 horror classic, but it does include the basic framework and some visual nods to the original. On its own, it's an irredeemable, sadistic torture chamber reveling in the bloody, cringe-inducing deaths of some of the stupidest people ever to spend a rainy night in a remote cabin in the woods.

Shiloh Fernandez is the dull and dimwitted David, who returns to the family's old cabin along with his new girlfriend, Natalie ( Elizabeth Blackmore ); his former childhood friends Eric ( Lou Taylor Pucci ) and Olivia ( Jessica Lucas ), and his little sister, Mia ( Jane Levy ). Even before we learn Mia's trying to kick smack, we know this kid has problems because she's got a bit of a goth look going, she believes in the spirit world, and she likes to sketch.

Like most cabins in the woods, this cabin in the woods seems to be miles away from any other cabins or any signs of life. Gee, the family must have had a blast there, especially with Mom battling insanity, and Dad — well, we never hear about Dad.

Within a few hours, the dog finds a blood-covered trap door leading to a basement filled with strung-up cat carcasses and a book of evil curses. Soon after that, Mia starts having visions and speaking in a demonic voice. Yet these morons stay put. (When they finally do try to leave, there's a conveniently biblical-style rainstorm flooding the exit road.)

Olivia's a registered nurse, but she doesn't seem smart enough to know how to register for Google Plus. Eric, who for some reason is groomed and dressed as if he'd just come back from a Kurt Cobain look-alike contest, opens a book that says "leave this book alone" and starts reciting a chant that should never be recited. Geez, whose idea was it to invite Eric on this trip?

Enter the she-bitch from hell, who's possessing Mia and intent on offing everyone in sight in the most disgusting, prolonged manner possible. Cue the ominous score, the cheap scares and the increasingly moronic behavior by David and his dunderheaded friends. The gore factor goes all the way to 11, with admittedly impressive makeup and special effects. Over the course of a rainy night that seems like it'll never end, we're treated to multiple scenes of projectile vomiting, dozens of nail-gun shots penetrating flesh and bone, black ooze and blood everywhere, dismemberment and stabbings. All shown in excruciating detail.

Save for a few darkly funny one-liners, there's almost no wicked humor here, and there's certainly nothing original about the plot. The actors do a pretty fair job of conveying terror, but the characters they're playing are such one-dimensional idiots, you begin rooting for the demonic she-bitch from hell to take 'em out.

I love horror films that truly shock, scare and provoke. But after 30 years of this stuff, I'm bored to death and sick to death of movies that seem to have one goal: How can we gross out the audience by torturing nearly every major character in the movie?

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Why Are We Doing This to the Evil Dead Movies?

When 20-year-old Sam Raimi first showed his ultralow-budget 1981 indie film Evil Dead to the local dentists and merchants who had helped finance it, he was met with some disappointment. These people thought they had put their money into a horror flick, but Raimi, they claimed, had made a comedy instead. Indulging in their fondness for Three Stooges slapstick, the young director and his college chums had combined goofy pratfalls and visual gags with homemade special effects and patently artificial gore to create something grotesque and silly.

Those investors would ultimately be richly rewarded, as Evil Dead became a cult hit and, along with two sequels, Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992), helped perfect a new subgenre, one that could be simultaneously funny and scary. In the past, crossing horror and comedy usually meant just making a comedy with a few horror trappings — think Young Frankenstein or Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy . But the Evil Dead movies delivered Looney Tunes high jinks with the same verve they doled out genre thrills. This was a series in which the hero’s girlfriend’s skeleton could rise from the dead and do a ballet routine with her severed head, in which eyeballs accidentally lodged in people’s mouths and innards and limbs flew around and exploded with unchecked abandon. Audiences laughed, but they also screamed. It was glorious.

Which might explain why Evil Dead Rise , much like 2013’s tepid Evil Dead reboot-remake-reimagining, feels like a desecration. Obviously, it’s a law of nature that any and all successful horror films must be endlessly regurgitated and monetized into grim, dim franchise schlockfests. Still, you wish they’d left the original Evil Dead trilogy, which was unique and weird and hilarious and perfect, alone. Raimi continues to be involved in the series, as an executive producer, through his Ghost House horror shingle, so these new movies do have his blessing. Original lead Bruce Campbell also has a brief voice cameo in this one, so he’s evidently onboard, too. But still, it’s hard not to watch these new Evil Dead movies and get the debilitating sense that something important and essential has been lost.

Written and directed by Lee Cronin, Evil Dead Rise does begin promisingly with a lakeside slaughter involving Wuthering Heights , a scalping, a beheading, a ridiculous amount of vomit, and a facial shredding by an unmanned drone. It then jumps back one day to a completely different cast of characters in a completely different place. Rock-band roadie Beth (Lily Sullivan) shows up at the condemned apartment where her tattoo-artist sister, Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland), lives with her three kids, Danny (Morgan Davies), Bridget (Gabrielle Echols), and Kassie (Nell Fisher). Beth, it appears, is kind of the fuckup of the family (she’s a guitar technician, but people keep calling her a groupie, and she has also gone and gotten herself pregnant), but Ellie, too, has fallen on hard times ever since her husband left her.

Then an earthquake opens a hole beneath the building. Ellie’s idiot DJ son wanders down there, finds the Necronomicon (the demonic “book of the dead” that Raimi’s original trilogy treated almost like a comic MacGuffin but which these new studio-based Evil Dead movies take annoyingly seriously), and summons the forces of darkness by playing an old-timey LP of spells. Poor Ellie gets possessed, and the rest of the movie basically involves her terrorizing her family in their apartment and slowly picking them off one by one while her hapless sister tries to summon the fortitude and maternal protective instinct to save the day.

There was probably a good idea in there somewhere. The two grown-up leads, Sutherland and Sullivan, do an admirable job of trying to lend these loosely drawn sisters some depth. But really, after its first half-hour or so, Evil Dead Rise settles into just another drab chiller about a creepy, stare-y possessed mom staggering around the house and croaking out lines like “Mommy’s with the maggots now.” We’ve seen plenty of those over the years, even a couple of good ones ( The Conjuring comes to mind), and Evil Dead Rise brings almost nothing new to the table other than slightly elevated gore.

Considering that this series once ran on goofy, gearhead inventiveness, that’s a problem. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself imagining an alternate universe in which this film actually embraced its Evil Dead– ness and had fun with its premise instead of just being another anonymous possessed-parent thriller. If Beth is a guitar technician, where is the scene in which she jerry-rigs an electric guitar to a chain saw to fight off the demons or figures out a way to use an amp to blow them away? (There certainly don’t appear to be any consistent rules about how to fight these forces of darkness, which should have given the filmmakers the liberty to try new things.) Ellie is a tattoo artist — surely she can do more than just point a tattoo gun menacingly in one standoff? Yes, this is asking Evil Dead Rise to be a different movie. But it should be a different movie! Why is there even an Evil Dead in front of its title?

Still, Cronin does appear to be a proficient horror director, and he comes up with some nifty, over-the-top creature effects late in the film; he’s likely to have a decent career in this world. He certainly does more with the whole Evil Dead concept than the truly lousy 2013 film, which seemed to think that it could just replace the playful gore of the original series with buckets of blood. Evil Dead Rise also has plenty of blood — an elevator full, in fact — but at least it’s got a couple more visual ideas. It even has a scene in which an eyeball is bitten off and then flies into another character’s mouth. As noted earlier, that’s an image straight from the originals. But it also underlines what’s wrong with this movie because it doesn’t feel like it belongs here. The Evil Dead films were defined by their exuberant, colorful creativity. We don’t need allusions or Easter eggs. We need new ideas.

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Another New Evil Dead Movie Is Escaping the Basement

Writer-director francis galluppi will helm the latest entry in sam raimi's gory horror series..

Evil Dead ’s cackling Deadites can never truly be defeated, which means there’ll always be fresh Evil Dead stories to tell—even without horror icon Bruce Campbell playing the lead, as last year’s excellent Evil Dead Rise proved. A few months back, an Evil Dead “spin-off” was announced, and now there’s news of a whole new movie on the way too.

Another ‘Evil Dead’ Movie Is Now In The Works

The 2023 film Evil Dead Rise was the first Evil Dead movie in ten years following the release of 2013’s Evil Dead remake. Now the film franchise has been fully resurrected – not only was one new Evil Dead film announced with director Sébastien Vaniček attached, but now a second Evil Dead movie is also in the works!

The Evil Dead film franchise initially consisted of a trilogy – The Evil Dead , Evil Dead 2 , and Army of Darkness . The series went dormant for two decades before 2013’s Evil Dead revived the brand. A TV series starring the original trilogy’s protagonist – Bruce Campbell ‘s Ash Williams – was released in 2015. After lasting for three seasons on Starz, the brand was brought back again for 2023’s Evil Dead Rise .

Now, according to Deadline , Ghost House Pictures has hired The Last Stop in Yuma County director Francis Galluppi to direct his own take on Evil Dead . Here’s what the outlet shared regarding the project:

“The project is described as an original story that Galluppi developed and brought to Raimi and team. No word on a plot or who will be producing, as it’s early days here.”

Sam Raimi, director of the original Evil Dead trilogy and producer for its many other endeavors, had this to say about Galluppi:

“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence. He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut,” Raimi shared.

There are certainly plenty of opportunities to open up the Evil Dead brand even further. With several continuities, protagonists, and settings established, it’s clear that Evil Dead has become a sandbox with limitless potential.

Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any additional updates regarding the Evil Dead film franchise as we have them. Hopefully we’ll have more details regarding both Evil Dead movie projects coming from Sébastien Vaniček and Francis Galluppi.

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TWO New ‘Evil Dead’ Movies Now in the Works; Sébastien Vaniček & Francis Galluppi Directing

Just a couple months after we learned that Sébastien Vaniček ( Infested , now streaming on Shudder) is directing the next installment in the Evil Dead film franchise, we’ve learned today that it’s not even the only new Evil Dead movie that’s currently in the works!

Deadline reports today that Ghost House Pictures has just hired Francis Galluppi ( The Last Stop in Yuma County ) to write and direct yet another brand new Evil Dead movie!

Deadline adds, “The project is described as an original story that Galluppi developed and brought to Raimi and team. No word on a plot or who will be producing, as it’s early days here.”

It’s similarly early days for Sébastien Vaniček’s untitled Evil Dead movie, which we know nothing about at this time. But stay tuned for more reporting as we learn more on both films.

The new course for the Evil Dead franchise is for Sam Raimi to hand select hot up-and-coming filmmakers to put their own spin on the Deadites, which has been working exceedingly well for the bloody saga. Fede Alvarez directed his own take on the original classic in 2013, which paved the way for Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise last year – 10 years after the remake came out.

The Last Stop in Yuma County , Francis Galluppi’s feature debut that impressed Raimi and the team, hasn’t yet been released. It’s currently set for theatrical and at-home premiere May 10.

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A Second Evil Dead Spinoff Movie Is in the Works, Confirms Sam Raimi

The new Evil Dead spinoff is in development alongside the previously announced spinoff that will be directed and co-written by Sébastien Vaniček.

The Evil Dead franchise is showing no signs of slowing down. Sam Raimi has just confirmed that a new spinoff movie, separate from the one being directed by Sébastien Vaniček, is in development.

According to Deadline , Francis Galluppi has been tapped to write and direct a new Evil Dead movie for Raimi and Robert Tapert's Ghost House Pictures. The writer/director is perhaps best known for his award-winning shorts High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project . His debut feature, the crime thriller The Last Stop in Yuma County , starring Jim Cummings, is set to hit theaters on May 10. Galluppi's Evil Dead movie is based on an original idea he had that he then brought to Raimi and his team.

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"Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence," Raimi said in a statement. "He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut."

Evil Dead Remains a Beloved Horror Series

Galluppi's Evil Dead movie is expected to be the seventh installment in the beloved horror franchise , which began in 1981 with writer/director Sam Raimi's low-budget horror film The Evil Dead , starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams. Following the massive success of The Evil Dead , both Raimi and Campbell returned for two sequels — Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992). Campbell also made an uncredited post-credits scene cameo as Ash in the 2013 reboot film Evil Dead before starring in the Starz horror series Ash vs Evil Dead , which ran for three seasons between 2015 and 2018.

The franchise returned to the big screen for the first time in a decade with 2023's Evil Dead Rise , which was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $147 million worldwide. Directed by Lee Cronin, Rise stars Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland as two estranged sisters trying to survive and save their family from deadites. Although a sequel has not been officially announced, Sullivan teased in February 2024 that there have "been lots of conversations happening" about a potential follow-up to Rise .

Evil Dead Spinoff Director Addresses Connections to Previous Films

Sebastian vaniček teases his evil dead spinoff.

Galluppi's Evil Dead movie is the second franchise spinoff to be announced in 2024. Back in February, it was reported that Infested helmer Sébastien Vaniček would co-write and direct an untitled installment in the Evil Dead franchise. Campbell, who has produced or executive produced every Evil Dead movie in addition to starring as series lead Ash Williams, confirmed the spinoff's existence on X , writing, "Well, I guess the demon is out of the cellar…"

While plot details remain under wraps for Vaniček's Evil Dead movie, the director has teased that his spinoff will "give justice" to both Raimi's original movie and Fede Álvarez's 2013 reboot. He also shared that Raimi and his team have given him "some artistic freedom" on the project, revealing that they specifically want to see his take on Evil Dead .

Evil Dead Rise is currently streaming on Max, while release dates for Galluppi and Vaniček's respective Evil Dead movies have not been announced yet.

Source: Deadline

Evil Dead is an American comedy horror franchise created by Sam Raimi consisting of five feature films and a television series. The series originally revolves around the grimoire the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, an ancient Sumerian text that wreaks havoc upon a group of cabin inhabitants in a wooded area in Tennessee.

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Evil Dead is, of course, Raimi’s horror franchise going back to 1981’s same-name film starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, a combatant of various supernatural entities. That pic grew into a trilogy, also spurring the creation of Starz’s Ash vs. Evil Dead and a number of other projects. The most recent, standalone film Evil Dead Rise from writer-director Lee Cronin, grossed more than $147M worldwide last year when it hit theaters via Warner Bros, after launching at SXSW.

At present, Galluppi’s Evil Dead film is one of two in the works. Earlier this year, Ghost House tapped Sébastien Vaniček ( Infested ) to co-write and direct a new spin-off for the franchise, as we were also first to report.

Galluppi’s debut feature, crime thriller The Last Stop In Yuma County , follows a traveling salesman who, while stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop, is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty — or cold, hard steel — to protect their bloodstained fortune. Pic premiered at Fantastic Fest and will be released by Well Go USA Entertainment on May 10th.

In addition to a number of award-winning shorts, like High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project , the up-and-coming genre filmmaker has previously been tapped to helm multiple music videos for the L.A.-based indie rock band Mt. Joy.

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Evil Dead’s cackling Deadites can never truly be defeated, which means there’ll always be fresh Evil Dead stories to tell—even without horror icon Bruce Campbell playing the lead, as last year’s excellent Evil Dead Rise proved. A few months back, an Evil Dead “spin-off” was announced, and now there’s news of a whole new movie on the way too.

Raimi is ahead of the curve on Galluppi, whose debut feature—The Last Stop in Yuma County, about a traveling salesman who encounters two vicious bank robbers—premiered at Fantastic Fest last fall to positive reviews, but won’t hit theaters until May 10. As for that Evil Dead spin-off, it’s being created by another Fantastic Fest breakout: French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček, whose creepy Infested (which io9 called “ Attack the Block with spiders ”) arrives on Shudder today.

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Will There Be a Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie Release Date & Is It Coming Out?

By Tamal Kundu

Sam Raimi ‘s Evil Dead franchise has an enduring legacy in the horror and comedy-horror genres. The first three entries in the franchise are regarded as classics. The latter installments have been commercially successful, ensuring that there will be more Evil Dead films in the future. The franchise has successfully infiltrated other mediums, including television and video games. Recent reports reveal that Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County will) will direct a new Evil Dead movie. If you want to know the release date for Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie , then this is what we have learned.

Here’s all the Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie release date information we know so far, and all the details on when it is coming out.

Is there a Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie release date?

Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie does not have an official release date, but it will likely be announced in the future.

In April 2024, Deadline reported that a new Evil Dead from writer-director Francis Galluppi was in development at Ghost House Pictures, a production company established by Raimi and Robert Tapert.

“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline in a statement. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

The project is still in the stage of early development. Nothing is known about its plot, cast, and other members of the crew. Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie is the second Evil Dead project currently in development besides the untitled spin-off from writer Florent Bernard and writer-director Sébastien Vaniček. If Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie does go forward, it’s likely coming out in 2026 at the earliest.

Where is Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie coming out?

Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie could come out in theaters.

This is because Francis Galluppi’s New Evil Dead Movie will be an entry in one of the most iconic horror franchises of all time and will probably require a wide release. ComingSoon will provide an update when more information is available on the project.

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