![]() ![]() It’s not that I had any problem with the cabin my love for that setting meant I still put a cabin in the movie, in the opening sequence. I knew I wanted to move as far away from the cabin as I could. Was that setting part of your initial pitch? “Evil Dead Rise” takes place on the upper floor of a Los Angeles high-rise, in a space your characters are intimately familiar with, which builds a dread distinct from the cabin-in-the-woods setting this franchise is more associated with. The following interview has been edited and condensed. Simultaneously, the Irish filmmaker-whose creepy 2019 debut, “ The Hole in the Ground,” similarly exploited primal fears of motherhood, possession, and unsettlingly dark chasms-infuses “Evil Dead Rise” with an anguished humanity and tragic dimension, courtesy of committed performances by his two lead actresses.Ĭronin spoke to via Zoom ahead of the film’s home media release about writing dialogue for Deadites, drenching his actors in buckets of blood, and taking the already-iconic cheese grater sequence literally to his grave. While his film is just as bloodthirsty as its predecessors, Cronin seasons all the sadism with a gleefully unhinged, ghouls-gone-wild exuberance that invites audiences to embrace every kill as a morbid, rictus-grinning punchline. Once Ellie is attacked and possessed, her family must confront a mother-monster who intends, with ample ferocity and demented delight, to prey upon their souls. ![]() ![]() Set in a condemned Los Angeles apartment complex, the film follows two estranged sisters, Beth ( Lily Sullivan) and Ellie ( Alyssa Sutherland), who fight to survive after Ellie’s children uncover phonograph records and a strange book-one of three volumes of the Naturom Demonto, also known as the Necronomicon-that inadvertently summon demonic entities known as Deadites. “Evil Dead Rise,” which hit theaters earlier this year is now available to rent and own on 4K Ultra HD, is at once a change of pace for the franchise, switching up its stock-in-trade cabin fever to unleash hell on the residents of a run-down city high-rise, and a tongue-in-cheek recapitulation of the hyper-kinetic visual style and vomit-soaked, maggot-infested iconography for which the series is most beloved. ![]()
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