5/28/2023 0 Comments Looking good dead review![]() ![]() It knows when to be different and when to be similar. However, what sets this one apart is, shockingly, its familiarity. These films are bound to be crowd-pleasing ones when done with just the right amount of pandering and familiarity, but in most cases, they end up turning into middling and empty entries that fail to recapture anything remotely close to the original. This makes Lee Cronin’s new Evil Dead film far more like a legacy sequel, right up the alley of the Halloween reboot trilogy and the recent crop of Scream films. The Necronomicon (The Book of the Dead) is here, unsuspecting flesh are, once again, possessed by deadites and turned into foul, mischievous murderers, and a chainsaw is just hanging around in the corner. The original Sam Raimi film, perhaps infamous for using practical kitchen ingredients like karo syrup, creamed corn, and red food coloring to convincingly produce viscous and yucky body horror gore despite its low-budget, is spiritually present throughout this fifth installment. Because for the uninitiated, this latest reboot might seem like the most repulsive, vile, and wretched thing ever committed to screen, but for the Evil Dead franchise, this is just a lunch break - a delicious one at that. ![]() ![]() ![]() You should probably enter Evil Dead Rise knowing what to expect. ![]()
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