Definitely better than I anticipated.

The gore and special effects were amazing.

Awful writing, terrible acting, boring played-out story. I will say the cinematography and camera work was well done and made the movie finish-able. But trust me, I couldn't wait til it ended. There was no suspense, they didn't develop scares, and for a gory film..... it could've used more creative gore. A waste of time, unfortunately. I'm not sure what the people giving this movie good reviews are measuring this against, Sharknado?

Finally, a movie in the franchise that feels like the one they intended to make in college. Excellent sound. And it still maintained the humor throughout while amping up the effects, and the violence. Plenty of gore in this one. Definitely a thumbs up. I have to say, as much as #3 was tops for the humor, this one is tops for the creep factor. Great nod to the chainsaw.

Horrible screenplay and shitty acting make for one crappy horror movie… lucky it’s short.

How this movie is getting such high reviews is beyond me. Boring at best.

I loved the movie from 2013 but that movie was pretty boring. The first 5 to 10 minutes was a introduction to the characters (who are all great) but the rest of the movie was just a long boring fight/escape against/from the evil spirit.

The whole fight against the evil, what was around 95 % of the movie should have been the final 10 to 15 minutes, but not the full movie.

I liked the characters and the special effects were great. But I will rewatch the movie from 2013 again, but it was the first and last time I watched that movie.

I went to the cinema to see it seduced by the trailer but I was deeply disappointed. From the first scene it already shows that it is going to be a bad, bad movie...

On more than one occasion I have laughed, as if it were a humorous movie... so, bad business.

As far as reboots go, I have to say that they made this film fun, campy, full of blood, guts, and gore, and totally beat my expectations. Go and set it, it's worth the watch!

3 Thoughts After Watching ‘Evil Dead Rise’:

1. This was standard. Fairly typical horror fare. That was my initial thought when leaving the theater. It wasn’t bad by any means. But it also doesn’t do much that’s new. I didn’t hate it.

2. I kinda wish the _Evil Dead_ mythology was a little clearer. There doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason as to who gets possessed and why. I was expecting the aunt to turn after getting injured multiple times. I’m not entirely sure how the woman at the end gets possessed and is then able to mosey on down to the lake with her friends. I thought she’d find the book and bring it with her. Did Beth beat the evil after throwing them into the shredder? How about the other possessed folk still in the hallway? I dunno… my OCD brain needs more rules as to how this all works.

3. There were definitely a solid number of creepy visuals _(many spoiled in the trailer, unfortunately… what else is new)_. And that was quite possibly the most blood I’ve ever seen on film. But the mom provided the best moments. She was creepy AF.

I am very sad for writing this but the film was average at best. I just finished watching this in Berlin as part of the FrightFest film festival. I had high hopes for the film following the stellar reviews, but, it wasn’t really good. It was genuinely an average horror film at best.

Maybe I will need to watch this again when it comes out on Blu-ray, but, until then, I don’t think it was good :frowning2:

It was alright but nowhere near what I hoped it would be like. Easily the weakest of the Evil Dead movies though it did have one part in it which was new to me and was very cringe-worthy, but in a good way. But it felt pretty generic for the most part, ticking boxes but not in the right departments.

Help, I need an adult.

Wish I liked this more.

Most consistent horror franchise ever? Even the show and remakes were good.

Not bad, with a lot of gore and disturbing, almost grotesque scenes. Just what one expects from such a horror. Too bad it's not as good as the original. While they delivered on the amount of blood, it's missing the psychological horror. Just remember the first one, like the evil tried to make Ash crazy the whole time. Also [spoiler] no "Join us" :/ [/spoiler]

I kind of disappointed I thought it was much better but it's just a average horror film could have been better

Evil Dead Rise meets the highest reasonable expectations for a sequel in this franchise. It has plenty to offer while staying true to its origins. The film is campy, stylistically cool, and a bloody good time.

Pretty letdown and I’m surprised about a lot of the praise, it mostly hits generic exorcism movie beats with Evil Dead stuff kind of thrown in. The gore is not particularly well done and is lacking the bombastic energy in the direction/camera work. It starts to maybe show potential towards the back half but never fully delivers. Not really bad but a worse version of the 2013 remake.

Delivers on gore, misses on plot