Review of Evil Dead Rise (2023) by Sloopydrew — 21 Apr 2023

Don't believe the hype. Evil Dead Rise is not scary. The gore is mostly CG and not even close to as nasty as the first two or the remake. The movie itself is totally generic with pointless and out of place callbacks that would do JJ Abrams proud. The director doesn't have the flare of Fede Alvarez, much less Sam Raimi. More like McG or Brett Ratner. I have been to Army of Darkness opening night and the Evil Dead remake opening night. Both were sold out and the audience was crazy. Cheering, clapping, screaming, laughing. The audience at Evil Dead Rise? Completely silent from beginning to end. Sold out theater not a sound besides some coughing and COVID spreading. Not even a single solitary clap at the end.

The critics were bought off or they just don't understand Evil Dead anymore than they understood Star Wars when they gave The Last Jedi the highest rating any Star Wars ever received and heaped praise on Force Awakens. Evil Dead Rise is a total waste of time and money. The first Evil Dead movie that I didn't like at all. It wasn't even good enough for the made for streaming category it was originally created as and should have never gone theatrical.