Well with movies been dry a bit Im starting to kick the old bucket list of movies to watch, as you can tell I have been mostly writing about TV serieis but during the weekend decided to finally watch "Evil Dead Rise (2023)", during the day; I once started watching it some time ago and had to pause it because this thing is a whole experience in a good and no so good way, if you can find some sort of joy and excitement on a very gory movie like this you will enjoy it as much as I did but I for a fact know this is something my wife wouldnt have the stomach to watch. Considering that close to 8 years have passed since the first Evil Dead movie I can tell that this one is not disappointing, the director Lee Cronin decided to throw us straight into chaos without any of that typical horror movie buildup that usually takes forever to get going, we get this creepy opening scene at some lake cabin with a girl named Jessica who's clearly not feeling well and within minutes she gets possessed by a Deadite attacking Teresa then scalps her by yanking on her hair, this run off the cabin but Jessica is following her until the lake where is Teresa boyfriend playing with a drone suddenly Jessica take the drone hurting herself and falling into the lake in the process but that is not all then she is floating out of the lake like she is crucified and after that the name of the movie appear, thats the fkn start of this movie and I thought "In a Violent Nature (2024)" was an insane movie but this one is right there too, you know that the tone of the movie is gore, horror and pure evil.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13345606/
- Platform: MAX
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As every movie we need at least a minimum story to connect all the pieces and this one posses that same structure and at lets present something about the characters, first we meet is Beth a guitar technician who discovered is pregnant and for that reason she decide to visit her sister Ellie and her three nephews, yes Ellie is a single mom who is struggle to give a good life to her children with her work as tattoo artist. This family live in a old and creepy building with other few neighbors because is a building that will be demolished soon but that is not so important. When Beth arrived to Ellie´s house, her sister have a complicated relationship and more from the side of Ellie because she felt that her sister hasn´t be there when she needed her most while they are talking an earthquake hits LA and damages the building, Ellie´s children where in the parking garage returning from buying pizza and with the earthquake a big hole opens in the ground, this is the part that at first got me confuse, let me get something straight Im not the biggest fan of the franchise so I just happen to watch the movie out of curiousity but I also watched the 2013 one, there are other 3 movies within the franchise. I really don´t know why in horror movies more with kids they always instead of run from some unknown shit they decided to take the adventure card and play like boy scouts making something stupid and bringing the evil to the house, you are watching like please stop it!!!, inside the fucking hole Danny, Ellie eldest son; find some shit that you know he should not grab including a creepy book with rear teeth, the book is called Naturom emonto and what he doe?, take it to his house, so smart. Obvious should exist a way why the evil arrived to the house but how precisely is than a earthquake open a hole and theres some idiots kids who decided that get inside that hole was the most exciting thing to do, well I don´t buy it but I don´t have to because that is part of the story now and it won´t change so that truth is that is not something critical because after all its exciting what comes up next.
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Considering that this is a stablished franchise I do appreciated that this movie handle the whole Evil Dead mythology without making it feel like a retread of what we have seen before. If you have seen the previous movies or not I will tell you that the book used before was the Necronomicon but in this one is one of the three books called the Naturum Demento, at first I was asking myself why the book was different and is because is another book, with creepy teeth and cover of human skink and that is the book Danny took to his house, when he try to open it he couldn´t but he cut his finger with one of the books teeth making a few drops of his blood fall into the book, after that happen the book open to him but couldn´t read because was in some sort of ancient script but he saw creepy drawing on it, he also took three old vinyl records and decided to play the first one, the person talking was the father Littleton, he was the person who passed most of his life studying the book and documenting his research so into his mission was this father that also read the incantation of the book and recorded them, when those incantations played in Danny´s house everything went to hell, the evil force was unleashed and went straight for Ellie in the elevator and possessed her in this really uncomfortable scene where cables wrap around her neck and she is basically getting strangled while floating in the air, when she comes back she is not mom anymore she was something else entirely and that was when the movie really starts to get nasty.
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At first I didnt recognize very well who was playing Ellie, with all the destress around the scene but then remember her, fkn Queen Aslaug from Vikings, this is one of my favorite tv series of all time, just pure gold and most of the actors did a great job, Aslaugh on Vikings in fact at first was consider a witch and also a bit extremist on their religion so this possessed role fits her very well. I was hooked once I recognize Alyssa, she trully kill it, similar to Vikings, a lonly mother with three kids, her husband left them but she is a fighter here too, she has a family that depends on her but in this story the one possessed had no chance against the evil, she is the most evil creature of all, scaring you with those screams, her look is so creepy, the way she look at you like trying to eat your soul, it was hard seen how that lovely woman in a reincarnated demon that only wants to kill even her kids, here you know that the director doesn´t hold back when it comes to violence, murdered, blood and horror. Theres is a scene when Ellie´s bites out a guys eyeball called Gabriel and then spits it across the fkn hallway into Jake's mouth, his son. It was a reference to the Evil Dead 2 but in this movie feels different because the tone was more serious here and felt nasty. Im also glad that they went with ton of practical effects and not all CGI, from what I read online they used over 1700 gallons of fake blood with the elevator scene alone using close to 1500 gallons, practical effects always make things look more real even though you know its all fantasy.
Theres a lot of blood, gore, a little bit of drama but theres something that was missing in this movie and it was air, literately the movie never let you breathe in any aspect because since the first moment all it shows is death and I know the movie is called Evil Dead but man never give the opportunity to know anything about this family very little context, its all gore gore gore death death death and a possessed woman, you see Beth and the little girl that at this point I don´t even remember her name but I know that is the only daughter alive of Ellie, so Beth and her nice are running for her life because now they have merged mass of all the dead people called The Marauder hunting them and they almost win but the kid was trapped and her auntie decided that she will fight for her and she is not going to die and suddenly she has an electric chainsaw a full reference to the whole Evil Dead franchise, obviously she saved the kid cover in blood but happy that all the shit is over, I´m not saying this is the worst horror movie because its not, I think this movie was more about the shocking moments and trying to raise the bar after every 10 minutes making you feel more and more unconfortable but sometimes knowing a little bit about the characters give you feelings and the you can feel sad when they die but here wasn´t the case because theres no time to cry for anybody. At the end if you decided to see this movie you are more than warned that Evil Dead is going full throtle with the gore, evil and horror theme, there is no in between for this movie, do not expect anything else, for the shocking aspect I think the movie is great but as I mention there are other aspects that I felt were missing and its mostly build up, time, context and then if you want have half of the movie with the same amount and pace of horror, for me its a cool one time watch 7/10.
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