The reviews are in from the world premiere of Lee Cronin‘s “Evil Dead Rise” at SXSW 2023 last month. And the verdict? Pretty solid all around (although The Playlist’s review didn’t match the consensus). But now it’s time for the general audience to have their say as the film hits theaters later this month.

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Cronin’s take on Sam Raimi‘s legendary horror franchise sees the series decamp from the deep words to Los Angeles, where a sister checks in on her older sister and her three children only to discover the Deadites got to them first.

Continue reading ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Final Review Trailer: Lee Cronin’s Take On The Legendary Horror Franchise Hits Theaters On April 21 at The Playlist.

Lee Cronin’s “Evil Dead Rise” calls to mind those items we used to read before every “Die Hard” sequel, about how each had begun its life as a completely different story having nothing to do with “Die Hard” that was hastily re-written into another John McClane movie. That is not, as far as I know, the origin story of this “Evil Dead” sequel. But I wouldn’t be surprised to find it began its life as an entirely unrelated tale of a dysfunctional family fighting an evil force in a condemned apartment building before writers threw in a Book of the Dead and a chainsaw to help fill the opening weekend tills and keep the “Evil Dead” IP alive.

Continue reading ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Review: Lee Cronin’s Take On Sam Raimi’s Classic Horror Franchise Is A Witless Slog, Tangentially Related At Best [SXSW] at The Playlist.

While the original trilogy of Sam Raimi’s horror film franchise “Evil Dead”— “The Evil Dead” (1981), “Evil Dead II” (1987), and “Army of Darkness” (1992)—rocks, most of the attempts to resurrect the film have been primarily non-starters. Granted, there’s only been one film since, Fede Álvarez‘s “Evil Dead” (2013), and there was also the series “Ash vs.

Continue reading ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Trailer: Lee Cronin Directs The Next Chapter Of Sami Raimi’s Beloved Horror Franchise at The Playlist.

A new “Evil Dead” is on the horizon! And not only do we know that Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are currently involved in the development of the film, apparently the new sequel is set to be made a lot sooner than fans are probably thinking.

Speaking to Empire, ‘Evil Dead’ star Bruce Campbell talked about the current status of the new film in the franchise, and in doing so, he confirmed the newest filmmaker to take on the series, as well as the film’s title.

Continue reading ‘Evil Dead Now’: Lee Cronin “Handpicked” By Sam Raimi To Write & Direct New Film In The Franchise at The Playlist.

Not to carp on about it, but the new wave of indie arthouse horror, but has really tapped into something primal in our culture. Using formal rigor and a kind of patience that’s the opposite of jump scares, this new movement is bound by its collective desire to use atmospherics to unsettle us emotionally and psychological on a much deeper level. It’s a different kind of fear and one not traditionally scary in the boo!

Continue reading ‘The Hole In The Ground’ Digs A Moody, But Conventional Horror Ditch [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.