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Evil Dead Rise is a 2023 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Lee Cronin. It is the fifth installment of the Evil Dead film series. The film stars Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland as two estranged sisters trying to survive and save their family from demonic creatures. Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, and Nell Fisher (in her film debut) appear in supporting roles.

Evil Dead Rise
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLee Cronin
Written byLee Cronin
Based onCharacters
by Sam Raimi
Produced byRob Tapert
Starring
CinematographyDave Garbett
Edited byBryan Shaw
Music byStephen McKeon
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • March 15, 2023 (2023-03-15) (SXSW)
  • April 21, 2023 (2023-04-21) (United States)
Running time
97 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15 million[2]

The film's development was preceded by scrapped plans for direct sequels to Evil Dead (2013) and Army of Darkness (1992), and a fourth season of Ash vs Evil Dead (2015–2018). By October 2019, Sam Raimi announced that a new film was in development, with Rob Tapert producing, Raimi and Bruce Campbell executive producing, and Cronin writing and directing the project. New Line Cinema (the first film's distributor) was announced as a production company involved. Principal photography took place in New Zealand from June to October 2021.

Evil Dead Rise had its premiere at South by Southwest on March 15, 2023, and was released in the United States on April 21, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics.

Plot

Friends Teresa, Caleb and Jessica are vacationing at a lakeside cabin when an ill Jessica supposedly succumbs to a demonic entity, scalps Teresa with her bare hands, and decapitates Caleb using a drone before levitating in the air while a bleeding Teresa watches on.

One day earlier, Beth, a worker in the music industry, visits her sister, single mother Ellie in her apartment complex, along with her children Danny, Bridget and Kassie. When the three children run to get pizza, an earthquake suddenly hits the building and creates a massive hole in the parking lot. Danny investigates the hole, and discovers multiple religious artifacts, along with a record and a strange book that he takes up to his room. Recordings on the record reveal the book to be the Book of the Dead, formerly researched by priests who were turned down by the church for doing so. As the priests read the incantations within the book, a demonic entity is unleashed, cutting the power to the entire building, and Ellie is viciously attacked in the elevator. Ellie returns to the apartment where she excessively vomits and collapses in front of Beth and the children.

Assuming her to be dead, Beth, alongside neighbours Gabriel and Mr. Fonda, lay Ellie to rest in her bedroom. She soon awakens, and now possessed by the demon, attacks the family. Beth and the children are able to lock her out of the apartment when she leaves to brutally murder their neighbours in the hallway, including Gabriel and Mr. Fonda. Following the rampage, Ellie tricks Kassie in to letting her back into the apartment. She attacks her, and Danny takes Kassie to her room as Beth locks the demon back out. Black liquid soon begins oozing out of Bridget’s orifices, and Beth finds a possessed Bridget chewing glass in the kitchen before attacking her with a cheese grater. When she goes to attack Danny and Kassie, Kassie supposedly kills her, with Danny tying her body to the bed.

Danny informs Beth about the Book of the Dead, and she listens to the vinyl recordings as Bridget awakens and attacks Danny and Kassie. Bridget overpowers Danny, stabbing him in the chest, but not before Danny lights her on fire, supposedly killing her. Ellie escapes from the hallway through the vents, and attacks Beth in the bedroom as she listens to the recordings. Kassie throws Beth a pair of scissors which she uses to subdue Ellie, before taking Kassie out into the hallway in an attempt to escape the building. Ellie arrives, along with the now possessed bodies of Danny and Bridget, proclaiming that Beth and Kassie will be “dead by dawn”. The possessed corpses of the neighbours suddenly awaken, and combine with Ellie, Danny and Bridget to create a spider-like creature, while Beth and Kassie escape through the elevator which overflows with blood, resulting in the elevator falling to ground level and allowing them to escape into the parking lot.

Beth and Kassie attempt to escape, but Kassie is abducted by the creature before they can do so. The creature attempts to kill Kassie with a chainsaw but is interrupted by a returning Beth, who uses the chainsaw to force the creature into a massive wood chipper. When Ellie’s decapitated head taunts Beth, she accepts that her sister is gone, kicking her head into the wood chipper, finally killing the creature, and escaping the building with Kassie. The next day, Jessica, revealed to have been living in the building, leaves for vacation, but discovers the bloodied wood chipper as an unseen demon moves rapidly through the parking lot, and attacks her as she screams in terror.

Cast

Bruce Campbell features in a voice-only cameo role during the vocal recording on the record album from 1923, where an unnamed character forewarns them to the dangers of the ritual; shouting, "It's called 'the Book of the Dead' for a reason!", after urging the priest to stop. Writer/director Cronin stated that he had Campbell voice this role intentially, stating that he considers it to be Ash Williams.[6][7][8][9]

Production

Development

At the South by Southwest premiere, Fede Álvarez announced that his film Evil Dead (2013), a remake of The Evil Dead (1981), would be getting a sequel.[10][11] In addition, Sam Raimi confirmed plans to write Evil Dead 4 with his brother Ivan Raimi; it was later specified that the film would be a sequel to Army of Darkness (1992).[12] At a WonderCon panel in March 2013, Bruce Campbell and Álvarez stated that their ultimate plan was for Álvarez's Evil Dead 2 and Raimi's Army of Darkness 2 to be followed by a seventh film which would merge the narratives of Ash Williams and Mia Allen.[13] Campbell confirmed that he would reprise his role as Ash in Army of Darkness 2.[14] Álvarez later that month tweeted to his followers that Raimi would serve as director on Army of Darkness 2.[15] By November, Campbell expressed doubts in a fourth Evil Dead film.[16][17] In September 2017, during a panel at Fan Expo Canada, Campbell stated that he believes the only successful future for the franchise is via a premium cable network, citing Ash vs Evil Dead on Starz as an example.[18]

In November 2018, Álvarez announced that "They're just ideas right now. Nothing to announce officially. We do have a script for Don't Breathe 2. That's the only difference. We don't have a script for Evil Dead 2. But we do have a script for Don't Breathe 2 that we wrote." He also said that "When I tweeted that I was interested in seeing what people prefer. We were having some internal debates about what people would be interested in most. Unfortunately, Evil Dead 2 won. Which, I guess I would have preferred Don't Breathe 2 to win because it's one of my own creations. Obviously Evil Dead has the bigger following."[19] In July 2019, Raimi discussed the future of the Evil Dead franchise, saying that "We'd like to make another Evil Dead feature and in fact we're working on some ideas right now." Raimi said that he would be interested in making another film with Campbell, however, Campbell earlier claimed that he had retired from the role of Ash. He said another option would be a sequel to the 2013 reboot, however, he is unsure if Álvarez would want to make a sequel at this point because the director is a successful "artist in demand" now.[20] Despite this, Campbell was confirmed to appear in the film, in a "teeny, tiny, little cameo".[21]

Pre-production

In October 2019, Raimi announced at New York Comic Con that a new film was in development. Robert G. Tapert was set to produce, while Raimi and Campbell served as executive producers only, all under their Ghost House Pictures banner.[22] In June 2020, Campbell revealed that Lee Cronin was handpicked by Raimi to write and direct the film, then titled Evil Dead Now, after Cronin previously collaborated with Raimi on the horror streaming series 50 States of Fright.[23][24][25] In May 2021, New Line Cinema (who distributed the first film) had picked up the film, with it scheduled to be released on HBO Max and retitled Evil Dead Rise.[26]

Casting

In May 2021, it was reported that Australian actresses Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan had been cast in the lead roles.[26][27] In June 2021, Gabrielle Echols, Morgan Davies, and Nell Fisher were added to the cast.[28] In July 2021, Mia Challis was reported to have joined the cast.[29]

Filming

Principal photography began in New Zealand on June 6, 2021,[30][31][32] with Dave Garbett serving as cinematographer.[33] Garbett previously served as a cinematographer on several episodes of Ash vs Evil Dead.[33] On July 14, 2021, Cronin revealed that filming was officially half way done.[34] Filming officially wrapped on October 27, 2021. Cronin stated the film used over 6,500 liters (about 1,717 gallons) of fake blood.[35]

Music

In April 2022, Stephen McKeon was announced to be composing the score, after collaborating with Cronin on The Hole in the Ground (2019).[36]

Release

The film was originally set for a streaming-only release on HBO Max, but was switched to a theatrical release in August 2022 as part of a restructuring plan for film distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures that would see the studio relying less on HBO Max-only releases and more on theatrical releases.[37] The film was theatrically released in the United States on April 21, 2023, by Warner Bros.[38]

Evil Dead Rise had its world premiere at South by Southwest (SXSW) on March 15, 2023.[39][40] It is also had midnight screenings at Fantastic Film Festival Australia, simultaneously in Sydney and Melbourne, on April 20.[41][42]

Reception

Box office

In the United States and Canada, Evil Dead Rise was released alongside The Covenant, and Chevalier, and the wide expansion of Beau Is Afraid, and is projected to gross $15-20 million from 3,300 theaters in its opening weekend.[2]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 110 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The website's consensus reads: "Offering just about everything longtime fans could hope for while still managing to carry the franchise forward, Evil Dead Rise is all kinds of groovy."[43] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[44]

Future

Bruce Campbell stated he, Sam and his brother Ivan Raimi have been planning a possibility for future films in the franchise if the film is a success, he stated:

"I think the stories will progress a little more now. We're going to try and do them more like every two or three years rather than every 10 years. It's also the first time Sam is working with his brother Ivan to create an overall Bible that will give future writers and directors an idea of where this thing should go next to potentially tie in some of these stories. So I think it's going to get a little more tied in as the years go by. But because it's all about the books. It could be a book in the past, a book in the future. It's yet to be determined."[45]

Notes

  1. ^ Promotional material alternatively use the Ghost House Pictures logo.

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