An Average Movie-Goer’s Review
No spoilers! If you would like spoilers – check out the Spoiler post
I love horror movies and if I’m going to watch them anyway, why not write an entertaining/funny review from the POV of an average movie-goer and not a professional critic.
Today we’re looking at the fifth entry in the Evil Dead series, 2023’s Evil Dead Rise
After finding the Naturom Demonto (The Book of the Dead) a family living in a high-rise in Los Angeles must survive an attack from demons known as deadites.
Is Evil Dead Rise (2023) Scary?
Evil Dead Rise has several tense-filled scenes, creepy monster/deadite designs, and moments that will make you too scared to look through your front door peephole. While it might not be as gory as Evil Dead (2013) if seeing blood bothers you there’s a handful of scenes that will have you looking away.
Evil Dead Rise does a good job at delivering the scares and chances are you will leave the film afraid of something, especially if you have a habit of collecting old books that drink blood.
Evil Dead Rise (2023) No Spoiler Review:
Evil Dead Rise is one of my favorite horror movies that I’ve seen all year, maybe even since I started doing this. Every actor does a great job with their characters but I have to say the actor who portrays the main antagonist does an amazing job. The creepiness factor of the entire movie goes up tenfold just by their portrayal and yet you’ll still laugh in several scenes.
Although this is an Evil Dead movie it felt more like the focus was on character and story and it does a good job at that. The dialogue, the setting, the pacing, it all works and makes it an extremely entertaining movie. But some character arcs do fall a bit flat.
You can see exactly what the film was trying to portray and do with some characters but the movie puts that character development in the backseat for large chunks of the movie. There are a few throwaway lines that reinforce a character’s arc but the growth starts at zero and hovers around 20 till the end where it shoots up to 100.
The movie is also a great example of stretching the “Chekhov’s Gun” idea to the very edge. If you don’t know, Chekhov’s Gun is basically the idea that everything introduced in a story has to be used by the end. It’s fun seeing all this happen but at a certain point, you start to realize things are getting a bit too coincidental. Yet the movie is still so entertaining that none of that matters and it weirdly makes it more enjoyable.
Overall I highly recommend everyone watch Evil Dead Rise. Yes, there’s some blood and gore but it’s not the focus of the film, there’s an entertaining story, great acting, and some creepy scenes.
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