Buckets of blood, the Book of the Dead and a chainsaw? It’s an Evil Dead movie, of which there’s no good films in the horror genre. The same team that has been around since the beginning with 1981’s The Evil Dead, producer Rob Tapert and executive producers Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell (who was the original character Ash Williams), reunite for Evil Dead Rise.

The fifth installment is directed by the director Lee Cronin, who updates the cabin-in-the-woods format to the location of an apartment located in Los Angeles branded a “condemned dump” which will soon be demolished.

Evil Dead Rise movie is where single mother Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) lives with her three kids, teenagers Danny (Morgan Davies) and Bridget (Gabrielle Echols) and her youngest Kassie (Nell Fisher). Her estranged sister Beth (Lily Sherwood) shows up in the middle of the night in the middle of the night. This is where the plot becomes complicated Her arrival is followed by an earthquake that creates a huge hole in the parking garage. Danny goes down there and grabs some vinyl records as well as The Book of the Dead.

The building used to be an old bank, however there’s a lot of religious artifacts within the rubble, such as an enormous Cross of Jesus Christ. How do these things tie together? We’re not sure. something to do with a safety deposit box. Do we care? We don’t really care.

Danny is the one who opens The Book of the Dead and plays the music (listen out for an aural cameo from Campbell) and will unleash the demonic Deadites that come to possess Ellie.

After this, the film is a constant bloodbath that delivers a frightful, shivering excitement that makes you say, “This is what I came for!” The film gives fans of The Evil Dead films something newly terrifying, as the action takes mostly inside the apartment along with the corridor and insecure lift. Yet, you don’t need to be a fan of the previous films – this is watch-through-your-hands horror at its finest.

There are some fantastic tiny nuggets that are a nod to the original films – such as eating an eyeball with a snore and creepy nursery rhymes as well as using silver-colored duct tape to wrap up wounds. It also has a strong allusion to The Shining’s “elevator of blood” sequence. How do you not love this?

Although Evil Dead II is viewed as a comedy horror, Evil Dead Rise is more of an all-out gorefest, although it does have its moments, such as when the dispossessed Ellie tells her children that she’s now “free from you titty-sucking parasites “…

Sutherland is a scene-stealing actor as Ellie, who only needed only a little prosthetic to highlight parts of her face. Her performance is absolutely amazing as she poses a threat to her children and sisterby utilizing knives as well as a tattoo gun, and an ice grater to deliver many of the more visceral attack.

In the final showdown, Ellie is terrifying enough on her own , and she does not need any of the “extras” she’s provided here. Less is so much more in the realm of horror. Yet when Beth, played with real depth and a determined determination to live by Sullivan and Sullivan, cranks up the chainsaw, and says, “Come get some,” her own take on Ash’s “groovy”, all can be to be forgiven.

After scrapping together the funds they set off on the creation of the fun, ingenious film that would eventually resulting in several sequels, an off-broadway musical and a niche, but well-loved television series. For the serious horror fan they will love the Evil Dead might not be thought of as being particularly creative or sophisticated, but fans of the body horror movies would certainly struggle to defend it as damn enjoyable entertainment.

I’m pleased to report the fact that Evil Dead Rise upholds the legendary status of the classic, and holds its own as an independent feature.

Evil Dead Rise is refreshingly simple — a family due to be evicted from their would-be-Airbnb-goldmine apartment in the shell of a dilapidated ex-bank become subjected to a night of sheer terror after the teenager Danny (Morgan Davies) discovers a mysterious vault that houses — you guessed it — the Necronomicon.

From a plot perspective, there’s nothing overly imaginative or groundbreaking happening in this film, but trust our word when we claim it does not matter. Because at the end of the day, Evil Dead Rise is an amazing film with plenty of fun and gore to keep you on the edge of your seat without much need for a narrative.

The mood of white-knuckle violence in Evil Dead Rise can be set instantly when audiences are thrown into a whiplash-inducing opening camera position. It causes discomfort right off the bat, and successfully doesn’t let up for the rest of the movie’s run. Its opening scene is unique, and it doesn’t overstay its the point of its. In fact, when the majority of the film really begins, you’ll forget that it ever occurred.