Of all the cult horror series (Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Screametc.), evil Dead is the one with the greatest consistency. There has never been an episode too many and the most recent part confirms this guarantee of quality.
AlthoughEvil Dead Rise swap the cabin lost in the forest (a good idea after the disappointing Knock at the Cabin) against an apartment in Los Angeles, fans will be delighted. We find everything that makes the charm of this creation: characters heavily abused by malignant entities, an eye expelled from its socket, a chainsaw that is far from gathering dust and pounds of blood spilled.
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movie scene Evil Dead Rise
This variation on the original volume produced in 1981 by a very young Sam Raimi (it was well before he started making superhero films) monopolizes his soul to better transpose it to the taste of the day. The family has replaced the traditional getaway with friends and the script takes advantage of the situation, dealing with the fear of motherhood and the difficulty of parenthood through its endearing heroines who are played by convincing little-known actresses, Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland.
Unlike its honorable remake of 2013, this new proposal pushes the humor so far as to short-circuit the story, which becomes more and more excessive and hysterical, without however reaching the generalized madness of the unequaled. Evil Dead II. It begins with a hilarious and bloody introduction in subjective camera. Then, after too long a presentation of the characters, the pleasure is palpable during absurd possession sessions to make people jealous. The Pope’s Exorcist. The staging by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground) turns out to be solid even if it could have been even more personalized.
At a time when the most agonizing productions take the form of surreal nightmares (Beau Is Afraid) or minimalist hallucinations (Enys Men), it’s refreshing to see that an old-school movie like Evil Dead Rise still has its place. Without being particularly original, the whole entertains ferociously… especially hemoglobin lovers.
Indoors
Horror
Evil Dead Rise
(V.F.: The Opera of Terror: Rebirth)
Lee Cronin
Starring Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies
1:37 a.m.