Review: Evil Dead Rise is a formulaic installment in the horror franchise about parasitic demons. It has big shoes to fill, but gets the job done.
When Beth arrives, she’s shocked to learn that her seemingly put-together sibling’s life is actually falling apart. Ellie’s husband has walked out on her and their kids, leaving her with nowhere to go and a sparse collection of concerned neighbors. After an earthquake hits, Ellie’s three kids discover a hole that has opened up in the parking garage.
Then everything goes to hell. A demon is unleashed, inhabiting Ellie and turning her into a monster who demands that “everybody dies by dawn” — but not before the kids witness their mother wreak enough havoc to inspire several lifetimes of therapy. In other words, it’s a formulaic Evil Dead film: Combine said book with some dummy to read it aloud, a handful of Deadites armed with instruments of torture and almost comically copious buckets of blood. This one follows the recipe but doesn’t quite live up to expectations.Horror movies certainly don’t need to be funny. And this one — though strewn with jokes that either don’t land or feel out place — certainly isn’t. One exception: the Deadites, who embody both the film’s comedy and its gore.
It’s an eyeball-eating, leg-grating, nausea-inducing spectacle, with visceral sound effects. But all the expertly executed violence accounts for more than jump scares and shock value. When the Deadite possessing Ellie realizes that causing her pain hurts the ones who love her almost as if she had hurt them directly, it beefs up the element of psychological horror.
Physically, Sutherland is superb, jerking herself around like a marionette — a Deadite in a human meat suit — with disgusting accuracy and attention to bone-breaking detail, in stark contrast to her prior graceful and soft human form. As Beth, Sullivan delivers depth as the problem sister unready for the responsibilities thrust upon her and blanching at the destruction unfolding around her. By contrast, the supporting cast feels stiff.
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