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I'm not the biggest fan of the 2013 movie, but I do really like it, I'd give it a 7/10 to 8/10. Then there's Ash vs Evil Dead, which I love. Then, of course, the original trilogy - which I absolutely adore. Especially II and Army of Darkness. I think I'm one of those people who likes Army of Darkness the most, actually. Now, there's a fifth film, so how is it? Personally, I enjoyed it - it ranks fourth out of the five movies. I'd give it a score of 8.2/10 thus beating the 2013, which, again, I really like. This one was mostly enjoyable, I believe, thanks to the cast and the cinematography, and the third act, which in itself was very gory and had some startling moments. This is by far the most brutal of the five films, and I thought its use of humour back and forth was fitting, yet, not quite as good as the way it's done in the originals. The two lead women performances were excellent. The three kids, the oldest daughter and the son, they're pretty good actors, I'll give them credit. But the best performance of the three, to me, was the youngest daughter, she did a terrific job and it's admirable given I believe she's maybe only 10 years old, if that. She is gonna be a star. Going back to the lead roles, most people are saying the standout is El, but to me, it's Beth. They're both superb, but Beth was such a good protagonist. The cinematography was at times splendid and nearly impeccable. They did a terrific job there, very well done, some excellent shots. The film is straightforward and quite, considerably, short - merely 96 minutes. I'd have made it 110 or something, just so there was a few extra details and nuances and moments, but at 96 minutes, still, it's a solid entry into the Evil Dead universe.

Good directing, decent enough dialogue, tons of gore, tremendous camera work, and good acting all round. The opening is also awesome, and its title reveal, much like everybody else has already said, is magnificent. Only issues I have are the aforementioned runtime, which in itself is fine, I just sort of wish it were that bit longer, and the rest of the actors, or, well, lack thereof. There were so few people, it could have added some more and even a few more background characters just to give it that extra but if depth and presence. And the opening, well, afterwards when it takes us to Beth at El's home, it could have been 10 minutes less, focusing more on other things, or those ten minutes be rather, say, 20-25 and it being more action and struggles and such. But I have to say, I'm pleased with this overall and I enjoyed it. It's a very enjoyable experience especially if you're a casual fan but love gory horror, but the diehard fans will either love it or find it okay/dislike it. I expect division there. Most people will like it though, I suspect. Anyway, yeah, it's a good one. Go enjoy it.

Only spoiler: the scenes with the fused together end villain were very cool and quite freaky, well done. It is reminiscent of other good horrors or sci-fi horrors.

I only now realize after watching the movie that it's the 5th installment in a franchise which even has a tv show and a video game, which I have actually seen on steam.

Evil Dead Rise, takes place in a single apartment building with a mom, her 3 kids and her sister. There are also a few neighbors but well you'll see what becomes of them.

In terms of story Evil Dead Rise doesn't have much of one, it's very simple and straightforward and doesn't even give you time to formulate an opinion on the characters before they start dying off. That being said the rest of the story is earthquake happens, boy finds book of dead, opens it sees creepy images and decides to keep on going through it and even listening to old vinyls with creepy priest. Demon comes and people start dying and that's about it.

Still don't know why characters in these movies can never have any actual common sense or brainpower but will still sit there waiting and watching the evil entity or spirit or go into the dark, scary room. Like I get you need a story to unfold but I bet you can make a pretty good one even while have sane, rational, intelligent characters. Anyway enough about that, movie has a simple story but hell it works and it's enjoyable and that's whats important.

Casting was pretty good actually, even though I have no clue who any of the actors and actresses were. The mother makes for a cute mum turned demon possessed killer and the kids all do pretty well playing kids turned dead demon possessed bags of flesh. The sister probably is the most important of the human characters and she does her job pretty dang good. Even when you see her niece use a cheese grater to scrape her flesh of her arm. So props to the cast for a good job and the casting director for picking a good cast.

The VFX and SFX are where the movie truly shines, you will see blood and gore everywhere. There are heads being torn off, people being stabbed, an insane amount of blood being used and shown on screen, scalps being ripped off and every manner of sick, icky thing you can possibly imagine. Absolutely wonderful job on the special effects and the sounds.

Overall a 7/10 for me, I loved the special effects, the sounds, the massive amounts of blood and the cast. The story was enjoyable but really nothing special though I'm definitely interested in now going back to watching the other 4 Evil Dead movies and even trying out the game.

I hate writing this review, because I feel like maybe I missed something here, but I didn't love Evil Dead Rise

The film starts off with a great opening scene then goes back a day prior to explain what is occurring. I really like the setting of this being in an apartment, as it gives the film more dread. I also love how the children give a back story/urban legend explanation then find the hidden book in a really cool way. I guess I wanted more if this back story, as it's really cool.

The movie then goes pretty break neck and carnage ensues. The character development isn't great, so I didn't really care that they were all in this awful situation. The acting is good for sure, especially the mother, she makes the film.

There's a lot of blood in this flick, and maybe I watch too many horrymovies, but I wanted this to be more brutal with gore. Blood and gore are different to me, just to clarify. Anyway, when I found out this was initially made to be released via streaming, it made more sense.

I think there's a good movie in here, but it fell flat for me. I loved the 2013 reboot, so maybe my expectations were off. I guess you could do way worse for a fun time in theaters, but to end "I'm not mad, just disappointed".

I went into this Evil Dead film with low expectations especially after being disappointed by other recent horror movie sequels like Halloween Ends, Scream VI and Hellraiser (2022). My expectations were apparently not low enough though as I was thoroughly disappointed by this movie.

This new addition to the Evil Dead universe is easily the most tame and least frightening of the franchise. The original Evil Dead trilogy starring (Bruce Campbell) was the perfect mix of horror, dark humour, excessive levels of gore and a likeable lead character who tied it all together with the help of his chainsaw and boomstick. Even the (2013) Evil Dead reboot movie had some fun and interesting ideas which while not anything particularly ground breaking still gave fans a ton of gory kills and passable enough characters that don't leave you with a headache between their deaths.

Evil Dead Rise fails to bring anything original or even of any value to the Evil Dead franchise. The main cast of characters are mostly teenagers who are written as mere plot devices to move the story forward. A good example of this is one particular character wants to become a DJ so he has a record mixing turntable set up in his room. This is the characters defining characteristic which exists so he has an excuse to play a record of a priest reading a passage from the book of the dead raising the deadites. That's all the character development there is for this character until he dies. The other main characters have very little back story or defining characteristics other than they are all related to each other.

The deadites in this Evil Dead movie are tame in comparison to the previous Evil Dead movies and the TV series. The lead deadite shown in all the trailers for the movie is the mother of the child characters in the movie and we watch as she becomes possessed and hunts her family down to turn them into deadites aswell. Unfortunately however the lead deadite spends most of it's time on screen screaming incoherently, falling over or saying cheesy one liners. When the killing does begin there are some moments that are fun and gory such as a deadite eating a guys eyeball out of his eyesocket only for it to be followed by something as stupid as her spitting the eyeball out and it just so happens to land in another characters mouth choking him to death in a shot that looks less Evil Dead and more Tales from the Crypt. This was clearly an attempt to copy a similar scene from Evil Dead 2 only without the dark comedy that made the scene work in the first place.

The special effects range from practical effects mixed with CGI that look surprisingly well done if not entirely original in design to a CGI mess that looks so unrealistic and fake it takes you right out of a scene that's supposed to hook you in with its suspense.

The absolute worst thing about this movie however is that it takes place in a run down appartment building filled with other tenants but only the people on the top floor of the appartment building are attacked by the deadites or are even aware of the chaos that goes on in the building over just one night. In the span of a few hours the building is affected by a significant earthquake that literally cracks a hole in the buildings foundations, the elevator gets filled with blood and destroyed flooding the elevator shaft and the ground floor with mass amounts of blood, the stairs in the building are completely destroyed, there are screams and even gunshots in the building at least ten people die and through all of that the other people in the building just simply don't let it interrupt their fine evening at home. This might seem like an odd thing to point out but the movie even shows a character who lives in the building the morning after the massacre saying they had trouble sleeping due to a thunder storm that night nothing else just the thunder not the mass murder or anything.

I really don't recommend paying to watch this movie in cinemas it really isn't worth the price of a ticket to watch a movie that is only worthy of being on a streaming service like Hulu or Shudder at best. The movie insults Evil Dead fans by simply doing just the bare minimum necessary for it to qualify as an Evil Dead movie.

The reviews for Evil Dead Rise say things like "Overwhelmingly scary" and "The best Evil Dead since the original" whoever wrote these reviews have either been paid to praise this movie or they have never seen a horror movie in their entire life and are the kind of people who would get scared watching a Paranormal Activity movie.

Im pretty surprised of the movie to be honest. Yes the plot is kind of predictable, sometimes too much jumpscares, pretty classic overall but..... the ambience, the atmosphere, the work arround the lights, the mood, some camera movements really made us uneasy. The movie start in a normal way and make it pretty clear from the beginning: there will be blood and not a little. The gore didnt really bothered me and really just feel natural because of the paranormal event and that sister who turn into a monster. Like i said the plot is pretty classic: they discover a book and after they opened it with listening to an audio about demonic stuff the monsters will appear. I really loved the transformation of the sister into a monster and find the make up really effective and really make us scared by her look. The movie its more a survival horror than a psychological horror. The characters are not that deep in term of background but there are interesting enough to make us want them to succeed for sure. I enjoyed also the story behind the ritual and that man who explained what happened after they opened the book: it really make us want to understand and how they can deal with that problem. The end let us think that it will have maybe a next movie? It really look like they prepared something else for a next movie but not sure for now. Like i said i really enjoyed it and found it pretty entertaining and the shots, the mood, the ambience, the plot really entertained me during the whole movie. A nice surprise.

A valiant effort was given to reboot a franchise to which I stopped watching after the original 3. People would consider that canon and the rest just derivative. I've not seen the others though I've seen clips and they seem very anemic. When the original popped onto the screen, it was done with such low rent glee and raw force by director Sam Raimi, that the audience felt the craft behind the filmmaker. Here, the movie is polished to a gloss.

The story is of two sisters, one who returns back to Los Angeles to meet up with a distanced sister who has three kids. L. A. Sister supplements her living with presumably tattoo artistry (how hipster of them). The three kids are aged 14 to 6 (I think). They have their own idiosyncrasies. One seems to want to be a DJ. One is a gothy girl who seems to have questions of her sexuality. The youngest is a tow-headed blonde who is movie adorable. All seem to be oblivious to their lot in life. Which is fine, since L. A. Sister is about to be evicted from her re-purposed old bank home. The production design here probably requires another look to see the neat former bank things.

Clearly this isn't Los Angeles, since it rarely rains. Here, it is pouring.

Any way, the building also seems to house random oddballs but kind ones which seem to fit L. A. Sister and her sleeves of tattoos. Groupie Sister who visits has been away following a band of some kind. Not sure the estrangement and you never get a sense of why their distance, but it doesn't play. Never mind that, because there is an earthquake that opens the Earth to a hole in the ground in the garage. Where the Son (presumably the oldest) goes down and finds...The Book Of The Dead! Seems this should be the reveal in which legacy viewers, such as myself, throw up their hands in excitement. Nope. Fell flat. And also, what ultimately happens to them doesn't have that sense that they deserve such brutality foisted upon them. It felt cruel. There should've been a pause of humanity between sisters before the chipper took her out (what's that doing in an apartment parking lot in L. A.?)

The incantations are read through some vinyl that the Son finds. Since he is a DJ, naturally he plays it which awakens the book. Chaos ensues. And...boy was I bored.

The L. A. Sister is possessed. And then attacks her family. I want to believe that the moviemakers here wanted us to feel the dread. Not really. I felt the people were too dumb to figure out that the grey skinned person is obviously out to kill them. Most notable irritating person is the littlest Blonde kid. Man was she obnoxious. Having seen her Mom die, resurrected THEN kill everyone in the hallway, naturally she wants to open the door. Ugh.

The Groupie Sister sustains horrific violence on her and yet...things like having a glass shard through her hand doesn't have her react that much. Or having a cheese grater across her calf just gives her a limp. If this were done as camp, I would love it. But the music and their reaction doesn't indicate that. It falls flat. The characters reactions to ANYTHING seemed misplaced or just flat out wrong. You see supernatural things, you expect the characters to run. So many stick around and you just wish the demons would just end them all.

The Goth Daughters multiple deaths and attempts to kill seem like it should be more fun. Having the broken end of a wooden pole go through her throat seemed like a good idea, but they linger on her removing it that I grew bored...again.

Perhaps I'm just more charmed by the low-fi version of the originals. And the terrific mugging of Bruce Campbell that this felt less like a "Evil Dead" flick and more like a standard Blumhouse B. S. To be clear, I also didn't watch any of the television series. Any and all of them.

I wanted to feel a tinge of nostalgia for the Sam Raimi touch. You saw a little of that in the last "Doctor Strange" flick. Here, they elected to go very by the book.

While it's true they can't keep doing "Cabin In The Woods" level nonsense (in fact, they fool you into believing that is what was going to happen). The ideal of a metropolitan area where the entire building has zero foot traffic is a hard leap of logic that is too much to bear.

The concept was good, but it doesn't surprise me that this was originally suppose to be straight to streaming. It felt like it. While the effects were solid and the gore was plentiful it still felt REALLY cheap. Perhaps not having any stars gives that impression.

I knew what I was expecting going in, and purposely lowered my standards ahead, but it still did not prepare me to be so disappointed.