benjithehunter
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A young groupie busts in on her sister and their single-parent household right before their apartment is due to be demolished. Her sister's children discover an ancient text and record underneath their parking garage after an earthquake and unleash blood-thirsty demons who want to feast on everyone's souls.
Evil Dead Rise is a well-shot horror film with a good amount of mood and some hair-raising special effects, but the lack of character depth keeps it from rising to the occasion as much as it should. It spends a good half hour with the main characters of the film before the demonic events start and, yet, we still know very little about them. It makes it hard to care once the stakes are raised.
A prologue and epilogue appear to have been added later on which has next to nothing to do with the rest of the movie.
Evil Dead Rise is a well-shot horror film with a good amount of mood and some hair-raising special effects, but the lack of character depth keeps it from rising to the occasion as much as it should. It spends a good half hour with the main characters of the film before the demonic events start and, yet, we still know very little about them. It makes it hard to care once the stakes are raised.
A prologue and epilogue appear to have been added later on which has next to nothing to do with the rest of the movie.
An overlooked, lonely woman catches her husband having an affair which gives him a heart attack and kills him and, instead of calling the police, she decides to bury the body and tell everyone he's missing, making her a local celebrity.
The concept of Breaking News in Yuba County is a strong one and director, Tate Taylor, has assembled an enviable group of fantastic actors to bring these characters to life, but the tone keeps veering in between comic farce and gritty, violent drama and they never meet in the middle in a satisfying way. The violence feels like something from an entirely different movie and the comedy, which I'm sure read as more farcical on the page, is played too straight to manage more than a chuckle or two from the audience.
The concept of Breaking News in Yuba County is a strong one and director, Tate Taylor, has assembled an enviable group of fantastic actors to bring these characters to life, but the tone keeps veering in between comic farce and gritty, violent drama and they never meet in the middle in a satisfying way. The violence feels like something from an entirely different movie and the comedy, which I'm sure read as more farcical on the page, is played too straight to manage more than a chuckle or two from the audience.
During the COVID quarantine, a few friends get together on Zoom to hold a seance with a psychic, but they upset the spirits and strange, deadly things start happening.
Considering this was shot during the height of the COVID crisis, you have to give the filmmakers props for their ingenuity and creativity. The characters are at least not as annoying as they usually are in found footage horror movies and there's a good excuse as to why they keep the cameras rolling. It wisely builds the scares bit by bit, saving the most effective ones for the last 10 minutes, leaving the film on a terrifying note.
Considering this was shot during the height of the COVID crisis, you have to give the filmmakers props for their ingenuity and creativity. The characters are at least not as annoying as they usually are in found footage horror movies and there's a good excuse as to why they keep the cameras rolling. It wisely builds the scares bit by bit, saving the most effective ones for the last 10 minutes, leaving the film on a terrifying note.