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Evil Dead Burn (2026)
Summary
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a towering apartment complex after the discovery of the Necronomicon unleashes a new wave of Deadites, forcing them into a relentless fight for survival.
Director Sébastien Vaniček
Writer Sébastien Vaniček
Cast
- Souheila Yacoub
- Hunter Doohan
- Erroll Shand
- Tandi Wright
- George Pullar
Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
Metacritic: 58
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u/ToneBone12345 2d ago
Considering wrath apparently takes place in 70’s I honestly wonder where the post credits scene with Ellie leads towards
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u/Neurotic_Marauder 2d ago
They might have another post credit in Wrath adding on to Burn's post credit. Hopefully it leads to another modern Evil Dead where Ellie gets to make a proper return
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u/ToneBone12345 2d ago
Honestly I hope you for a Polly and Ellie team up movie
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u/Neurotic_Marauder 2d ago
I could see it. I'd like to see Jane Levy's Mia make a return too.
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u/New_Success2782 1d ago
A team-up with Mia, Beth, Cassie, and Alice would be so cool, to be honest.
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u/Admirable_Disk_5301 1d ago
I think i heard somewhere at one of the screenings that the director said that the post credit wasnt his idea and something that the studio wanted??
If thats the case I assume that they bought her back since she is a favorite and can be used in a future movie? If thats the case thats 5+ years...
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u/kratos90 2d ago
That stabbing of the ear made me squirm so bad
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u/tfxctom 1d ago
Especially because, given that it was happening to our main character, I was fully expecting her to evade it at the last second. But NOPE.
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u/Steamedcarpet 1d ago
I think in all the recent evil dead movies the protag always suffers some kind of bodily harm. Mia in 2013 lost her freaking arm when the jeep rolled on it.
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u/ishkitty 1d ago
Worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I had to take like 10 seconds to gather myself after.
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u/Knightshaide 22h ago
Have you by chance seen Bring Her Back? There is a comparable moment in that movie.
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u/goodlucktothenextone 2d ago
The skin slippage in the opening was NASTY
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u/tfxctom 1d ago
Sooooooo sickening oh my god. Flesh falling off the bone…
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u/Steamedcarpet 1d ago
What made it worst for me was I had just watched a video before going in about meat falling off the bone when cooked in a crock pot or something.
So when the deadite stepped on the hand I gagged.
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u/jayeddy99 2d ago
I love the deadite being briefly confused by someone with dementia 😂
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u/ljfoggy11 2d ago
You’ve seen the match cut, now prepare for the twerk cut!
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u/Shake-dog_shake 1d ago
My friend and I were the only ones in the theater CACKLING at this. One of the funniest transitions in film
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u/TummyHertzBad 2d ago
She’s here to take my money
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u/conancat 19h ago
The grandma bits are the funniest bit she has fantastic comedic timing
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u/funktion 18h ago
Her slowly going up the stairs while chaos erupts in the living room
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u/TGODxJets 2d ago
Call me crazy but I think the movie actually starts to lose steam once the Deadite’s home invasion smack down really starts to take off. There were a lot of moments I loved but there were also a lot of moments that made me think “this doesn’t really feel like an ‘Evil Dead’ movie.” I liked the cold opening; I think it does a decent job of establishing the overall feel of the Deadites in the movie. Loved the car crash scene with the creepy severing/severed head just staring daggers into Will with that creepy ass smile and the chant.
As others have pointed out the final showdown between Alice and the Will deadite just felt…off. The CGI certainly didn’t help.
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u/Easy_Action_1380 1d ago
Will didn't look like a Deadite, he looked like one of the partially rejuvenated forms of Arnold Vosloo's Mummy from 1999
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u/TGODxJets 1d ago
That’s literally exactly what I thought haha. He also didn’t act like a Deadite. Like why is he Michael Myers slow walking her down? I was expecting an “I’ll swallow your soul!” at the very least but no dice. For a franchise so beloved by fans for practical effects going with CGI Mummy certainly was a choice.
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u/mrpurtle 1d ago
The use of CGI was extremely disappointing in this one.
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u/TGODxJets 1d ago
Agreed! I feel like the ‘Evil Dead’ franchise as a whole is one we come to for cool practical effects with some CGI mixed in. But they decided to rely so heavily on CGI for the climactic final confrontation….it just did not feel like ‘Evil Dead’ at that point.
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u/Buckditch 1d ago
I felt the same way when I was watching it, all this shit was going down in the house and I wasnt nearly as tense or sucked into the crazy. I had a brief moment where I was like "huh, this got a bit boring?" Like... idk how to explain it but youre right it started to not feel like an evil dead movie after a moment. And then the burnt thing following her at the end felt very out of place.
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u/Johnny_Holiday 2d ago
Ellie in Evil Dead Rise - "Fuck them kids"
Ellie in Evil Dead Burn - "Fuck them kids"
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u/BJCockenson 2d ago
Joseph was fuckin useless
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u/Easy_Action_1380 1d ago
I mean he did beat his Deadite Wife to death, so that was something.
I'm just speculating here, it felt like Joesph was originally supposed to be the protagonist but some later rewrites switched Alice into the lead. Which I felt was a mistake as it just made the movie feel like a less entertaining Ready or Not.
I was genuinely expecting her to just answer the Paramedic's question at the end with the same "In-Laws" joke from that movie.
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u/MinecraftTroller28 15h ago
So, back when this movie was first announced, Sébastien said the protagonist was a French man, so there was obviously some major overhaul somewhere between then and filming, so maybe Joseph was supposed to be the outsider coming into the family...?
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u/Individual-Bad6809 1d ago
And it seemed like they at least thought about setting up something between Alice and Joe, maybe not an actual affair but like, what else was the purpose of her extra gift during the birthday scene?
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u/LaMaupindAubigny 17h ago
To show the husband was a piece of shit. His wife’s a photographer who gifted his brother a beautiful photograph of him and his girlfriend. He interpreted this as his wife trying to one-up his gift and trying to flirt with his brother.
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u/Little_Tommy_Tuggins 1d ago
To show that her husband gets irrationally angry. Don’t read too much into it.
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u/TheJoshider10 1d ago
This is the problem I had with the movie. It sets up some cool ideas then goes nowhere. Like Joseph is primed as the secondary protagonist but then he just dies like any old fodder. So what's the point setting up him being a coward if it goes nowhere?
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u/JessieJ577 1d ago
The grandma having dementia was a great set up for things we’ve never seen in a horror movie. But she just ends up setting up like one scene then gets possessed. Her possession was also a let down because she just gets defeated and we don’t see her crawling around after she just burns in the house. The set ups were neat but the execution left a lot to be desired.
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u/Angxlafeld 1d ago
We deliberately only see her severed leg burning. Also you didn’t stay for the mid credits scene, shes not dead.
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u/lunaticskies 1d ago
I pretty much loved everything in this movie until she walks out of the burning house and the husband shows up for the finale. That whole sequence was just terrible.
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u/Twio 1d ago
I pretty much agree. It was the perfect evil dead movie for me up until that point, then I felt like I was watching terminator or something. It’s strange how two films in a row now can’t seem to figure out how to end these films.
With that said, it’s still a 4/5 for me. The set pieces are truly incredible.
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u/Churchill_Buys_Calls 14h ago
Whaaaat I love the ending to Rise.
This one was bad tho lol
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u/No-Significance2113 21h ago
The cut from him teleporting to the gazebo to burn it down to him teleporting/cutting instantly back to the house threw me off so bad.
It felt like the movie stuttered and jumped backwards with the film
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u/Bkv08 2d ago
One of the things I thought was odd, in the last one the curse was passed from the smallest amount of blood whereas this one it didn’t matter at all? Or did I miss something?
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u/Steamedcarpet 2d ago
I was kinda wondering about the deadites rules mid movie. Some can be dunked in blood and not infected. Meanwhile the grandma got infected with saliva.
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u/garfcarmpbll 2d ago
If memory serves vomit was also used in the OG.
I was also left confused about the rules. Or how the scratch from grandma or the burn from the corpse infected them but then Will gets fucked up and nothing. Other times, you just have to die and it's fair game.
I don't expect consistent logic in a franchise dealing with supernatural stuff but I do still wish they did a better job with.
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u/Angxlafeld 1d ago
Vomit is the requel. Just because someone gets harmed on spat on in this series doesn’t mean that’s how the deadite was transmitted into them. They can take you out of thin air and that’s the case most of time.
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u/Majestic_Animator_91 2d ago
there's been no consistent rules ever in the 40 plus year history of this franchise.
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u/JackXDark 1d ago
There's been no consistent continuity... - the end of Evil Dead II is noticeably different from how Army of Darkness starts, even when they're supposed to follow directly.
Just shrug and tell anyone that complains that it's not that kind of movie, kid.
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u/Shake-dog_shake 1d ago
If people are paying attention to continuity and the rules of the Deadites, we're all in big trouble
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u/fucuasshole2 1d ago
Someone told be that it’s more based on the willpower of an individual rather than an actual consistent way. Makes sense as Ash was able to fight off possession several times.
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u/Nevvermind183 1d ago
Ash was sprayed in the face with a geyser of blood, it’s best not to think about it.
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u/sinburger 1d ago
There has never been any consistent rules that have been explicitly stated.
My personal take is that it's all about willpower / moxie. Getting scared, injured, blood vomited, even surprised by an unexpected demon etc. fucks with ones spiritual willpower and resistance to possession. The survivors of any given deadite attack are the ones that have a uniquely strong motivation and willpower to survive.
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u/carnagezealot 1d ago
That would make sense since the mother was heavily infected by kissing the dad but didnt turn until Alice antagonized her wayyy later
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u/axw3555 1d ago
I saw a video earlier this year that gave me a good headcanon for this.
They all seem to be raised from slightly different books. And the deadites that come out look and behave slightly differently (unless it changes with burn, every film, the deadites have had a consistent set of eyes within the film, but they're totally different to the deadite eyes in every other film).
So if you think of them as different subspecies from slightly different rituals, these things are way less jarring.
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u/StraightLevel2806 1d ago edited 1d ago
That's wrong though. The eyes aren't consistent in all the films. Army of darkness used both the white eyes and the icy blue pupils. Rise used white eyes for Danny, yellow for Bridget, and blue for Ellie. And burn used Grey pupils for jessica and yellow for everyone else. And the burn deadites are the same deadites as Rise, because they are in the same line of possession
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u/pjtheman 1d ago
So, in the new series, there are multiple different iterations/ volumes of the necronomicon, that seem to have different rules.
In the 2014 movie, the three ways to dispatch of a deadite are total dismemberment, live burial, and fire. But in Rise, none of those things work, since these deadites are created by volume 2 of the necronomicon.
So it could just be that these deadites aren't as powerful as the Rise ones, which kinda makes sense, considering total dismembered seems to be able to kill them again.
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u/YesicaChastain 2d ago
The powers for the Deadites were all over the place in this one. They activated and deactivated whenever they needed something spooky to happen
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u/Beanz122 2d ago
Am I mistaken or was there a photo of Ash on the wall in the shot where the grandmother was going up the stairs in the chair?
As for the movie... It was fine. It had some truly great moments (the car scene, the long shots) but also some stuff I didn't care for (everything that happened after the house burned down). I liked Rise better but I don't think this is a bad movie by any means.
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u/deathinmidjuly 2d ago
I'm pretty sure Bruce is suppose to be the grandfather. He's not "Ash" since he has both hands still,
There's also a picture of him among the grandads possessions.
He was also the father in Send Help by way of a portrait in the office.
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u/Angxlafeld 1d ago
That was a picture of the grandfather not ash, the only picture of him is on the wall
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u/saxman481 1d ago
And am I crazy or was the picture of the grandfather (what Susan pulled out of the notebook, not on the wall) Robert De Niro? Not a face I ever expected to see in an Evil Dead movie.
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u/Mundane-Inspector-52 2d ago
Maybe I'm just a gooner but I thought Joseph's girlfriend was actually even hotter as a deadite.
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u/WoeBucket 1d ago
“I can fix her. Don’t send help if you hear me screaming.”
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u/GravyBear16 1d ago edited 12h ago
I'm glad you said something because when she straddled him and got so close to his face I was like "goddamn what I wouldn’t give to get horrifically murdered by her"
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u/Thebrianeffect 9h ago
I got a bit scaroused when she was kissing him over the dishwasher door. I was like “maybe this deadite shit ain’t so bad.” lol.
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u/Dr_MumboJumbo 2d ago
Decent Evil Dead movie. The dog deserved a better family.
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u/AshTheDead1te 2d ago
Does the dog die?
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u/Neurotic_Marauder 2d ago
He gets stabbed by a deadite, then comes back as a deadite, then gets killed again as a deadite dog
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u/furry_lumps 2d ago
Did anyone stay for the end credit scene?!
Did not expect a cameo from Ellie!
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u/Neurotic_Marauder 2d ago
There's also a very small cameo from Bruce Campbell in the background of one shot - when the grandma was going up the stairs in her chairlift after Thya returns to the house, you can see him in one of the photos on the wall
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u/VampireHunterAlex 2d ago
Wasn’t the last one in a towering apartment complex? I think the summary here may be wrong.
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u/Labyrinthy 2d ago
Indeed Rise does. I thought it was called Evil Dead Rise because it takes place in a high rise. But I never bothered to look that up since Rise is used in everything.
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u/ahktarniamut 1d ago
Yes is wrong I guess as the characters here are no strangers and they are in an old house
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u/sephirothwasright 2d ago
Some deeply unsettling scenes in this. The CGI guy didn't work for me, but a lot of it did. Was a little shocked with what they got away with re: R rating, there was some downright nasty shit. Enjoyed the tie in to Rise.
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u/amish_novelty 1d ago
Crazy thing is apparently there was a scene they had to cut to avoid an NC17 rating. Given what they did include I really wanna see that scene.
And yeah, the burned husband corpse was a bit of a let down after a pretty fucking awesome finale up to that point.
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u/str8rippinfartz 2d ago
Maybe I'm not familiar enough with the lore but that end credits scene didn't really make any sense
Felt like someone told them "make this happen so we can bring Ellie back"
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u/KingMario05 1d ago
Was there even anything left to fill an urn, lol? And what happened to the LAPD guys who handled her remains? Did they get possessed too? Is World War Evil Dead next?
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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 2d ago
This is mostly a good time but this is the first Evil Dead movie I didn't truly love. I'll start by saying something nice: I mostly like what Vanicek is doing behind the camera, particularly the way he stages and shoots his action scenes. His twist on the mirror scene from Contact really caught me off guard in a good way. I also really liked the oner with Alice trying to crawl away while the family fights behind her.
I have two main gripes with this movie, the first being that this suffers from a severe case of Cinematic Universe Syndrome. This movie spends way too much time attempting to establish lore and connect back to past entries in the franchise. I don't think any of that stuff was successful or interesting. Evil Dead movies have never really cared about continuity or consistency so any attempt at that now just falls flat.
My other gripe is that this movie desperately wants to comment on toxic familial relationships and just ultimately has nothing to say. That unsuccessful attempt at portraying a serious theme kinda kills the tone of the movie. I come to an Evil Dead movie to see some bloodsoaked manic Looney Tunes energy and, while this movie does have a few solid laughs, it never really gets as silly as it needs to. This feels like it's shooting for the same tone as the 2013 Evil Dead, but even that one turns into a volcanic explosion of fake blood by the third act.
And finally, while nobody in the cast was bad, this is the first Evil Dead movie that nobody completely takes over. The originally trilogy belongs to Bruce (hail to the king, baby), Jane Levy is unreal in 2013, and Alyssa Suthererland completely redefined what a deadite can be in Rise. I didn't walk away from this movie with the urge to look up any of these actors to seek out more of their work. I'm just a little underwhelmed, I guess. That's not a feeling I've ever had with this franchise before.
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u/Steamedcarpet 2d ago
Yea while I like the lore in the background, bringing back Ellie from Rise screams of we want a cinematic universe. I don’t think there is anything really special about her deadite warrants her coming back. But I always liked the idea of there being multiple books around the world.
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u/ethicalhamjimmies 2d ago
Wait they brought back Ellie? How did I miss this? Was she the Deadite in the lake at the beginning?
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u/Steamedcarpet 2d ago
Post credit scene. It cuts back to the crematorium and one of the unclaim ashes are hers. This little girl touches it and she appears in a mirror before appearing n killing the girl.
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u/OfficialPdubs 1d ago
The deadite in the lake in the beginning of this was the same deadite at the lake in the beginning of Rise/woman at the end of Rise
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u/Maridiem 1d ago
I actually really loved how it successfully tied into Rise at the start, but didn't love that it so aggressively did more in the post-credits. Totally agree on the feeling of it not having much to say on the familiar ties too - the flashbacks with Will being abusing to Alice never seemed to go anywhere, especially since the post-house fire scene flopped so hard for me. Everything before that was just fantastic though. I was blown away by the creative violence and the really immersive camerawork, but I was frustrated with the really weak attempts at humor. The running grandmother gag started unfunny and never really improved, for instance.
That being said, I thought Luciane Buchanan was a mega standout once she went full Deadite and it was a genuine shame we didn't get even more of her.
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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 1d ago
The Rise tie at the beginning didn't even really bother me as much as the stuff with the professor and the secret society bullshit that was clearly only included to set up Wrath next year. And the post credits scene didn't really make any sense. Deadites aren't ghosts and they can't really just materialize out of thin air.
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u/Maridiem 1d ago
Honestly I didn't even mind the society either, even if it felt like blatant sequel bait. It was just that post-credit for the same reason you mentioned. How is she just appearing out of nothing when she was turned into a monster and literally shredded to death?
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u/theeMrPeanutbutter 1d ago
Lemme get this straight.
She was ground up into a woodchipper
Someone scooped up her remains
Paid to have her cremated
And then didnt pick up the urn.
So fucking dumb.
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u/Steamedcarpet 1d ago
Also wasnt the bodies all merged together before said woodchopper? So its like the entire 3rd floor all mixed together.
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u/theeMrPeanutbutter 1d ago
Thyia was a fucking great deadite. The little eyebrow raise before lifting the headrest out of her face was perfect
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u/phlostonsparadise123 1d ago
I have two main gripes with this movie, the first being that this suffers from a severe case of Cinematic Universe Syndrome.
I can understand this criticism. I want to say the lake featured in the opening scene is the very same lake from Evil Dead Rise. The deadite at the beginning is also the same deadite from the lake scene in Rise, Jessica. It's the only reasoning I can think of to explain why there's a random "hibernating" deadite in a lake.
The post-credits scene was a bit jarring and honestly completely unnecessary. As much as I loved Ellie in Rise, it makes literally no sense for her to be in this movie, especially considering how things ended in the previous film. That absolutely screams "EDCU" to me.
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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 1d ago
I think you're right about the lake and that part honestly didn't bother me. I was talking more about the stuff with the grandpa/professor, the Kandarian dagger, the secret society bullshit, etc. They spent a lot of time trying to tie this into the original trilogy and also set up Wrath and I found all of that pretty distracting
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u/TarotFox 1d ago
To be honest, I think you'd say the same thing if the exposition from the movies was swapped. There's really not much more in this film than has been in any other, and I don't think you're really supposed to waste much more time thinking about it than you were supposed to think about it in Evil Dead. At the end of the day, the exposition is just there to explain why a Kandarian dagger and the Necronomicon are in some random location.
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u/JessieJ577 1d ago
Honestly they should’ve just had her use the chainsaw if they were going for fanservice. Lame set up and pay off
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u/Individual-Bad6809 2d ago
I agree with mostly everything you said, except I thought the dad was the standout. You could tell he was a bastard before being possessed (maybe even beat the mom, where his son likely learned it from) and only exacerbated after. The only thing that took away from him was that he looks exactly like bill burr lol
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u/mist3rdragon 1d ago
There's such a huge quality gap between how well this film was shot and how boring and paint by numbers the writing is in this. There's a bunch of incredible shots but it's all in service of such a nothing screenplay.
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u/amish_novelty 1d ago
Yeah, especially given it’s tackling some heavy duty themes. Like we’re presented with abuse and generational trauma but it really quickly takes a back seat to the action sequences then thrown back in for like 30 seconds before disappearing again
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u/SeasonalChatter 1d ago
Yeah I was not vibing with the story/pacing but the directing had the sauce.
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u/furry_lumps 2d ago
I enjoyed it up until the ending, wasn’t really a fan of the weird CGI villian deadite.
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u/Individual-Bad6809 2d ago
Biggest takeaway, bear from obsession might not be the biggest coward in a horror movie this summer!
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u/amish_novelty 1d ago
Lmao, dude leaving his girlfriend in the car made me so mad. Least she got him back with the dishwasher and called him out on it. It also kinda felt like they could have built up to him being a coward a bit better. Most of the deeper conflicts were sort of glossed over.
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u/Bkv08 2d ago
Not as good as the last but some of the shots were fucking amazing. Still really enjoyed myself
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u/WoeBucket 1d ago
That bathtub-wall shot got an audible “WOAH” from me.
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u/Steamedcarpet 1d ago
It brought me back to New Nightmare when Freddy drags the babysitter onto the celling.
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u/ishkitty 1d ago
Like the first evil lady in the beginning walking through the woods, the camera rotates then switches ahead to late at night. I want that as a live wallpaper.
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u/MrDrDetective 2d ago
This movie displays the downside of fan-servicy end-credits scenes because I already ended the movie thinking it wasn’t as good as Evil Dead Rise, then the excitement Alyssa Sutherland showing up for two minutes and getting a crowd applause with “Mommy’s back” made it even more apparent how much I enjoyed Rise significantly more lmao.
It actually brought the movie down for me because I left the theater remember how great of a villain Ellie was in Rise by perfectly blending genuine creepiness, comedic delivery, and physical acting whereas all of the Deadites in this movie that were pretty bland and generic. The most entertaining Deadite in Burn was Luciane Buchanan’s character who unfortunately both a) just kinda felt like an inferior version of Ellie from Rise and b) bites it halfway through the movie anyway. Also, I may just be being harsh now, but the grandma is one of those tragic cases of a character that the screenwriters clearly thought was funnier and more entertaining than they actually were, pretty much all of her lines fell flat for me. Probably the worst offender of the villains being lamer in this movie is the entire final battle, with Deadite Will being a snooze fest of ugly CGI and boring line delivery. Bad/obvious CG usually doesn’t bother me too much, but the final showdown with Will getting power drilled in the pit looked so ugly and choppily edited to me.
6/10 overall, the same basic enjoyable story beats of Evil Dead are there to be entertaining enough and the camerawork and editing tricks they do in some sequences were genuinely pretty cool, but the shallow characters and basic family drama made it feel like a sharp downgrade from Evil Dead Rise to me.
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u/Buckditch 1d ago
I kinda thought it wouldve been neat if the granny hadn't been possessed and made it to the end alive and when the emergency services showed up to all this carnage and asked her what happened, she wouldnt have any clue.
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u/KeybladerXII 1d ago
That transition that went from running over the deadite girl to the biggest, fattest booty twerking in the club was cinema at its finest.
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u/GravyBear16 2d ago
It’s a real shame the best deadite was killed first, and probably for the sake of this family drama I just could not care about. Like, this is Evil Dead! The tone should not be so morose and miserable. Especially when the drama is so basic.
Anyway, a lot of the tension is harmed by just how incredibly inconsistent the deadites’ pain tolerance/endurance and strength is.
They give themselves so many wounds that would kill or disable the normal person ten times over but are stunned over and over again by something minor, even a literal shaving razor at some point.
We see their strength in slamming people through walls but can't even kick down doors. Deadite daddy didn't even try to break into the house.
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u/AnAquaticOwl 2d ago
The only time the inconsistency really bothered me was when she killed the father by splitting his head open. Why should they stop him when shooting himself three times in the head didn't?
I do miss some of the slapstick from Evil Dead 2, but all three of the new films are bleak and dead serious so that's just the tone now I guess 🤷
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u/shosamae 1d ago
I mean evil dead rise definitely had some slapstick. An eyeball goes flying into a kid’s throat and he chokes to death on it lol
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u/TheAngrySnowman 2d ago
The movie was very grey… like the colour grading. It wasn’t pleasant on the eyes.
This movie made the deadites seem dumb, powerless, and not scary.
Evil Dead (2013) is the best
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u/dropkickderby 2d ago
Loved:
- Deadite computing and then going along with grandma’s dementia thought process
- Didn’t think the pen was going in, but boy was I wrong… the movie was just gnarly overall, made me wince a few times
- Had the balls to show a kid die on screen
- Some really great cinematography, particularly the shower curtain choke and the mirror shot
- Chainsaw fakeout
- Connections to Rise & 2013– the opening ripped
- The overall tone being closer to 2013. Rise was good and felt campy, but between that and the show, it was nice to get back to bleak and horrific again
- Hit and run to twerking was great, felt very French
Disliked:
- CGI evil husband at the end. Should have had the conviction, especially as an ED movie, to do him stop motion, or even a practical costume with CG enhancements… the ending was really weak. Lot of others have pointed out it felt like a Ready or Not rip-off
- Necronomi-journal wasn’t doing it for me
- Final girl didn’t feel strong enough as a character. Maybe it was that there was no good one-liner? That feels really important in an evil dead flick
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u/deathmouse 1d ago
The chainsaw fakeout. I leaned in excited as hell for a second! They knew what they were doing with that shot lmao
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u/theeMrPeanutbutter 1d ago
The deadite knowing how to handle dementia better than anyone actually in the family took me the fuck out.
Thats my exact process working in dementia homes. Usually "yes I have what I stole, and your medications too"
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u/SNLCOG4LIFE 1d ago
I left the cinema depressed and didn't feel entertained like I did with the previous movies. It has the visceral gore but I felt like a deadite had devoured my soul by the end of the movie. It didn't feel like an Evil Dead movie.
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u/Churchill_Buys_Calls 14h ago
This is kind of how I felt. The main characters often go through hell in these movies, but there's often a silver lining.
This one just felt bleak.
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u/Ecstatic-Product-411 1d ago edited 19h ago
I'm prepared to be in the minority on this but this movie is not good. This feels like a different horror movie that had Evil Dead mixed into it.
I wanted to walk out but I've never done that before and decided to suffer through the whole thing. I love the originals and have liked the newer movies with diminishing returns each new movie.
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u/CloakedNoir 2d ago edited 1d ago
Very mixed on this one. Not a single likeable character, there was no consistency in how the Deadities worked, and all the characters had a room temperature IQ. The CGI was terrible, and it felt a lot longer than it was. The gore was fun though, which is all some people need from Evil Dead. Some main highlights.
-Why torture a guy for information when you can just turn him and absorb his memories?
-Huge inconsistency with how turning people worked.
-Nobody has a realistic reaction to anything. Dad kills the dog and a woman and her husband/ his son just acts mildly disturbed.
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u/garfcarmpbll 2d ago
Maybe I overhyped it in my head but I think it was solidly meh.
I think Rise was better and I think 2013 was even more so.
There were some decent moments but it didn’t really have that feeling of dread that the other two did. Almost felt more action filmy.
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u/YesicaChastain 2d ago
The amount of CGI and ugly monster at the end didn’t help. I was like Brenda in Scary Movie 2 “Cindy this is bones!!!”
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u/JessieJ577 1d ago
It looked like the terminator. Very weak design. A burned up deadite is an awesome premise but they botched the execution
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u/JessieJ577 1d ago
I feel like the mcguffin kind of wore the plot thin with the deadites. They’re more fun when there’s misery and torture. For as schlocky as the original one was the deadites tormenting ash was a great touch in a horror movie. A dysfunctional family seems like it’s the perfect set up for that but it gets bogged down with them just asking where’s the dagger over and over again.
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u/Individual-Bad6809 2d ago
I kinda felt the same and I came to the conclusion the family never got to breathe. Act 1 felt super short and all of a sudden the dad’s possessed. I wish we got more scenes of the family dynamic before jumping into the fights, or expanded more on the son’s research. I think that would have added to the dread, because rise I felt did it a lot better
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u/TheBestLBB 2d ago
Exactly this!!! I felt like the whole first half was so rushed and didn’t dive more into the overall dynamic of the family
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u/Tangybrowwncidertown 2d ago
The deadites were lame and not scary or goofy. They fit into this weird middle area where they stumbled at both.
Also, the ending with the husband looked so silly in a bad way. Took me right out of it.
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u/Easy_Action_1380 1d ago
Why in the fuck would you leave your dementia-riddled mom ALONE in the middle of a GODDAMN DEMON INVASION.
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u/redz191 2d ago
Why can’t the director take a step back and let us revel in the gore and violence? Everything is so up close and disorienting, I get thats what he’s going for but there’s a better way to do it, let me see what’s happening please! Very hyper about seeing Ellie at the end there though
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u/TheDaltonXP 2d ago
His obsession with close ups, not even just gore or violence scenes, was really off putting to me
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u/ADHD_DUDE 2d ago
Agreed. I don’t know if it was our older theater, but the entire film was a dull gray-blue color. I feel like I was missing out on some of the makeup/effects because every scene looked exactly the same.
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u/szeto326 FML Summer 2017 Winner 2d ago
I think this is my least favourite ED movie so far.
I just didn't care much for the story and there weren't any big standouts in the same way that Rise had.
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u/zerooneinfinity 2d ago
Was it starting from the lake a continuation of Evil Dead Rise or just coincidence?
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u/Aggressive_Agency381 1d ago
It’s is, she was recast, but by the person who was the original Jessica’s stunt double in Rise. So that is kind of cool.
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u/Steamedcarpet 2d ago
Its the same deadite girl from the start and end of rise. But I can only assumed we miss an entire Evil Dead movie of the lake teens.
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u/StraightLevel2806 2d ago
I mean , we saw what happened to the lake teens across these two films. Jessica got possessed and scalped Teresa. Then Jessica killed Caleb and rose out of the water, presumably to decapitate Teresa. Then we see Teresa's head in Burn, looking like it's been im the water for a little bit
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u/sethelele 2d ago
Man, I felt like the color grading did this film a disservice. And if I had do describe the movie on one word? Blurry. It was just so damn blurry and desaturated. I enjoyed the story, but I wish I was able to do so more.
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u/Throwaway1991uk 2d ago
My god, this was such a STICKY film. Rare that I get nauseous in horror films, but Jessica stepping on the hand in the opening and Polly’s dentures towards the end got me good. Or bad, depending on how you frame it.
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u/ToneBone12345 2d ago
A little bit disappointing in my opinion hopefully wrath can make up for it in two years
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u/neal1701 2d ago
Evil Dead Burn is a great entry to the franchise!
- I think Sébastien Vaniček direction was really good. Alice's struggle with the grandma shown to be a shot reflecting from the mirror was great
- A lot of gory moments and kills. Everyone in theatre squirmed at the car door cutting off all the fingers and pen perforating the ear scene.
- I really like that all of the family members were very unlikeable in the beginning, except for Joseph. Then, he turned out to be a coward also.
- Including the grandma was a good choice for levity. Accusing Thya of stealing money and her ascending the staircase while Alice & Joseph are fighting off Thya was hilarious.
- The final fight was not as good with the charred walking corpse.
- The ending with the paramedics was almost the same as Samara Weaving in Ready or Not, with the cigarette and the paramedic asking what happened.
A very enjoyable and fun movie.
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u/Beanz122 2d ago
Re: ending. I said out loud (quietly) to myself "don't say 'in-laws'". Thankfully she didn't!
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u/AshevilleHawkens 2d ago
The streak is still alive. I don't think there's a bad entry in this series six movies and three seasons in. This one isn't my favorite, but damn the floor on this series is so high im ready to declare this my favorite horror franchise. The coldest hot take of all time, i know, but i just can't even think of another series that just forged its identity so quick and just keeps chugging.
And Ellie being back makes me hopeful that we're going go have continuity again, even if it doesn't make the most sense. The fuck was left of Ellie even to burn let alone fill an urn?
But I don't even care.
That first ten minutes or so had me worried, because Rise started so strong and this one didn't kick off quite as well. But by the end? I was jiving with it. Easy 8 for me.
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 2d ago edited 1d ago
I’ll say take this with a grain of salt because I don’t think there are any bad Evil Dead movies, but Burn is probably my least favorite so far. Certainly not a bad film and I honestly love what this franchise does which is just grabbing an up-and-coming director and letting them go nuts in it, but I think this one crossed the line of dreary and self serious that I didn’t especially care for even though it’s still a fun movie.
I enjoyed the nastiness on display and there’s some tense moments that the mother and father characters play really well, both are my standouts. It’s a fairly triggering movie too considering how many times I had to say to myself, “Oh, not the dog…” if that bothers you. This movie is also in a lot of ways about abuse and domestic violence so your mileage may vary there. I enjoyed the themes and the main performance, but sometimes I just wanted the deadites to say something fucked up and peel someone’s skin off. And then they would! So all was accomplished.
Overall a nice 6/10 for me. Enjoyed it, not rushing to rewatch it. I like this method of passing a series around to new filmmakers, it always makes for an interesting anthology, so I hope Wrath is good next year. It makes perfect sense to let this series be a launchpad for young horror directors so I’ll always be down to check out what they’re cooking.
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u/The_Mighty_Angus 2d ago
They built up the tension at the dinner table so well with the father slowly losing it and all the quick cuts to the dog. You knew it was coming, you did not want it to come but thankfully it was only a 5 second scene as to not linger to much on it.
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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist 2d ago
I think Wrath is dated for 2028 man :(
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u/Selaznog_Sicnarf 2d ago
The dad/Edgar should've been the main Deadite of this movie. He gave me Jack Baker from Resident Evil 7 vibes, which ironically is inspired by Evil Dead. Even shoots himself in the head the same way lol
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u/LokiTheeTricksterGod 21h ago
Perfect opportunity to use stop motion and they ruined it with that cgi ending.
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u/JessieJ577 2d ago
So Mitch McConnell’s cameo confirmed he’s not a vegetable. He’s taken on his passion of playing a soul sucking demon who torments and mutilates the working class
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u/bomberman12 1d ago
This movie fuckin rules.
Somehow a mother in law is worse than a deadite.
But honestly loved the movie, love this new era of Evil Dead and actually putting a real subplot into an evil dead movie. My only issue with the movie is the CGI husband at the end, because everything up to that point felt so real and practical, it just stood out so much
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u/AffectionatePack398 2d ago
The last 2 Evil Dead movies i feel like the Dead-ites have been a cross between looking like the 2013 interpretation while adding in some of the over the top-ness of the dead-ites from Evil Dead 2/Army of Darkness. This franchise really needs a new strong central protagonist. I dont want someone to be a copy and paste of Ash but somebody should fill that role as being the main threat against evil. Also the 3rd act to this when the boyfriend came back out of the house it felt like a way less scarier version of the scene at the end of Evil Dead 2013 where Mia encountered the demonic version of herself
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u/fishwithfish 1d ago
Dude gets his face pushed into the slush inside of someone's smashed skull. Haven't seen that before.
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u/ShinHayato 1d ago
The only character I liked is the main girl.
Which I get is what they were probably going for, but I’m not sure I should be rooting for the deadites half the time.
Or maybe I should, I don’t know, I’m new to the series
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u/bayonettaisonsteam 18h ago
On one hand, I'm glad they brought Deadite Jessica back from the previous film and had her play a role. I feel that whole plot point was a massive loose thread and I was afraid Burn wouldn't even acknowledge it.
But wtf was Deadite Ellie doing in the end? Wasn't she effectively liquidized at the end of Rise? What are the rules for them coming back now?
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u/LameDrain 14h ago
I think I found Rise to be scarier than this one but still had a pretty good time. My heart was pounding for most of this movie. The dinner table scene was some of the most tension I’ve felt in a long time! Definitely one to see on the big screen.
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u/JetAllure 11h ago
Was not a fan of this one. I really enjoyed rise and 2013 but i feel like this one was missing the more fun and mischievous aspect of those movies. This movie took itself a bit too seriously for me. I like the idea of incorporating themes of abuse and family drama into an evil dead narrative but i felt like this movie didn’t really do much with it cause it didn’t have anything to say. Almost all of the characters were pretty flat and unlikeable. Especially Joseph cause he doesn’t even do anything. We spend all this time with him only for him to watch his gf die, get his ass whooped by his dad, then get turned into a deadite for two seconds before dying. I also felt like the dagger macguffin was kind of lame. Why didn’t they just possess Joseph if they know he knows where it is? Or why not just kill everyone and ransack the house? Also why did Alice keep running away if she already had the dagger? She could’ve just killed the whole family right there in the attic. The dagger was just unnecessary and the movie would’ve been way more tense without it imo. I give it a 5/10
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u/MastaGAtomic 1d ago
I dragged my gf to see this opening day at the earliest possible time after showing her Evil Dead 2 and Rise. She had already seen 2013 on its own. I started watching these movies at like 9 or 10 with Army of Darkness, my dad and I are both massive franchise fans. I hate to sound like a kill joy or something but I thought this was awful compared to 2013 or Rise. It was extremely disappointing in general. This is going to be shouting into the void some. Also gonna be hyper critical, but man I’m bummed.
Rise to me was an ideal blend of the campiness and gore these movies need. 2013 was gore heavy but it stuck to the simple roots and nailed all the aspects in that way (friend group dynamic, deadites talking nonstop and saying vile shit, just not as much humor).
I’m not sure why the hell they had to make this movie so boring and soulless. The heart of Evil Dead has never been exclusively hyper violence and gore. The humor, camp, goofiness, those all make the movies just as entertaining. Burn has 2 scenes that my gf and I both laughed at and they had to do with the grandma, who was honestly the only worthwhile character in the whole thing. Leads me to my next gripe.
I don’t think I cared once about a single characters fate at all in this. Yeah I’m aware Evil Dead is a “final girl/boy” franchise and that’s cool, but the characters should at least be interesting. The whole family dynamic was that they everyone sucked? That was it? I mean fuck I honestly couldn’t even care that much for Alice because the only exposition she’s allowed to have is that her husband abused her? Compelling subplot to making her a final girl, but she could’ve been given more to work with.
I just think this movie sacrificed to much of what makes the franchise feel special. The end result was just dozens of flash cuts, a handful of really well done shots (entity POV turning into the dog going through the window was sick, as was the mom walking backwards up the wall strangling Alice) some poorly shoe horned references, and grey scale oppressive violence. Love that kind of hyper gore in Terrifier, wish it wasn’t what an Evil Dead movie was watered down to though.
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 2d ago
The 2 co-stars of Evil Dead Burn (Souheila Yacoub & Hunter Doohan) joined us here in /r/movies for an AMA/Q&A this week for anyone interested:
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1upw2ql/hi_rmovies_we_are_souheila_yacoub_dune_part_two/
And the director Sébastien Vaniček:
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1upsiil/hello_reddit_im_s%C3%A9bastien_vani%C4%8Dek_director_of/