Lily Sullivan as Beth, mid-somewhat fraught family reunion.
WHEN LEE CRONIN was nine, his father sat him down for a movie double bill that Social Services probably wouldn’t have been too elated about. “He showed me Evil Dead and Evil Dead II back to back. It was like a dagger to the brain,” beams the Irish filmmaker. Decades later, the director is getting to repay the favour, by introducing his now 80-year-old dad to a new instalment in the horror franchise — one he was hand-selected by Sam Raimi to direct. “It’s undoubtedly an Evil Dead movie, but it takes the lore and pulls it in a new direction,” Cronin explains. Here’s where it’s going…