EVIL DEAD RISE
Mommie Deadest
▸RELEASED 21 APRIL
18 | 97 minutes
▸Director Lee Cronin
▸Cast Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols
Is there another horror franchise as reliable as the Evil Dead series? Forty-one years and five films in we still await a turkey, with this latest iteration jostling for bronze medal position.
Gorehounds will know the drill: cabin in the woods, sinister incantation, demonic possession, extreme violence, dismemberment by chainsaw. Except this time the cabin in the woods is – barring a short prologue – absent, with the carnage unfolding in a rundown LA apartment building after a quake leads to the discovery of a Necronomicon in a forgotten vault. Soon mother Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) is on the turn, leaving visiting sister Beth (Lily Sullivan) tasked with protecting her kids.