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A pregnant woman moves in with her sister and her kids who find a dangerous demonic book in the walls of their apartment complex and unleash bloodthirsty spirits who possess and mutilate everyone they come into contact with.
Evil Dead Rise has been heralded as the return to form for the franchise, but it lacks any of that original series' humor or slapstick splatter. There is splatter, of course (lots of it, in fact), but the tone wavers closer to unpleasant than humorous or horrifying.
Characters are poorly drawn with the actors doing most of the heavy lifting to try and make some of their insane decisions make any sense whatsoever. Fans of gruesome makeup and gore effects will be delighted at the artistry on display, but it doesn't amount to much in the end as the story is simply not worth telling.
Evil Dead Rise has been heralded as the return to form for the franchise, but it lacks any of that original series' humor or slapstick splatter. There is splatter, of course (lots of it, in fact), but the tone wavers closer to unpleasant than humorous or horrifying.
Characters are poorly drawn with the actors doing most of the heavy lifting to try and make some of their insane decisions make any sense whatsoever. Fans of gruesome makeup and gore effects will be delighted at the artistry on display, but it doesn't amount to much in the end as the story is simply not worth telling.
- sammymayson
- Nov 17, 2023