Get ready for the bloody return of the Necronomicon in Evil Dead Rise, which hits theaters this Wednesday, April 19. Directed by Lee Cronin, the feature film is produced by Sam Raimi, who started the franchise in 1981, and stars actor Bruce Campbell.
If 3 movies Sam Raimi Banned for children under 12, the new versions of Evil Dead are even scarier because, like Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead released in 2013, Evil Dead Rise is prohibited for children under 16.
The fifth film in the horror franchise is the first film not to be set in a cabin. The main action takes place in a dilapidated building in Los Angeles.
After a long absence, Betty (Lily Sullivan) moves in with her sister Ellie (Alice Sutherland), who lives alone with her 3 children. After the earthquake, young Danny (Morgan Davis) finds a mysterious book and decides to take it home. This is the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, one of three copies of the Book of the Dead. A young man unwittingly releases the flesh-eating demons inhabiting the work.
Filmed in the midst of the COVID pandemic, Evil Dead Rise It requires 6,500 liters of fake blood and includes some ultra-gritty scenes: transformations, mutilations, murders, violence and blood showers…
Some of the scenes are borderline unbearable, as the trailer already shows: a needle in the eye, a tape being cut, a mangled leg, scissors and a chainsaw cut…
Lily Sullivan
But aside from the visual violence, Lee Cronin’s feature film centers on a family of five, and as the trailer reveals, the mother is quickly possessed by a demon that will try to deceive the children.
“I wanted to see what results we would get with foster children”
The director says about it:When I told myself that I was going to be interested in family, I knew that I had to talk about children. And since this is a new installment in the Evil Dead saga, several young people were about to be possessed, with dire consequences.
I wanted to see what we would do with the “dead” children (parasitic demons that take over humans). Indeed, it is about ripping off a child’s leg or arm and throwing it across the room, and anything becomes possible for the audience.“.
Sections that add psychological violence and which make this film one of the most shocking in the saga, and therefore explain why Evil Dead Rise is prohibited for children under 16.
Source: Allocine
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