Review of Evil Dead Rise (2023) by Zneversleep — 06 Jul 2023
This movie didn't get me at all.
Look, to be honest, I was expecting some crazy delirium horror movie, like the original. That doesn't mean I was not accepting something new. In this case, the "new" was kinda boring.
The contemporaneity sounds unnecessary. This feels like an ordinary horror movie with Evil Dead elements - and they're not enough to save it. There are a lot of predictable jumpscares and the evil behind all of it feels artificial. With some repertoire, you wouldn't find this scary anyway, but at least some uncanny valley could make it crazy enough to be really uncomfortable. The idea of being trapped in the building could work, but the environment was not scary enough.
Another factor that made me quit this movie was the total neglect of character development. I'm not asking for an Oscar drama. Just give me something to be afraid of with the characters I'm seeing. Please. The gore was good, but as I mentioned, without connection with the characters or trama, gore feels impersonal.
Anyway, that was disappointing.
This review of Evil Dead Rise (2023) was written by Zneversleep on 06 Jul 2023.
Evil Dead Rise has generally received positive reviews.
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