It’s Halloween! And what better celebrate than to share the first official image from director Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground) and producer Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead Rise! The new image shows off a nasty-looking deadite ready to cause some bloody chaos!
In the fifth Evil Dead film, “a road-weary Beth pays an overdue visit to her older sister Ellie, who is raising three kids on her own in a cramped L.A apartment. The sisters’ reunion is cut short by the discovery of a mysterious book deep in the bowels of Ellie’s building, giving rise to flesh-possessing demons, and thrusting Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood imaginable.”
I’ve been incredibly excited about this film because the creative team has been doing such a great job hyping it up!
In a previous interview, producer Bruce Campbell said that the movie “doesn’t suck” and that it feels “very European.” Here’s his quote:
“It is [exciting] because it actually does not suck in the least. Lee Cronin did a great job. [Original director] Sam [Raimi] picks these director types who’ve had some experience, but we can still sort of shove them into the Evil Dead box a little bit since these are Maverick-type directors.
“I give Sam credit, he’s not picking people, we’re just gonna mimic his shit. They come with very strong personalities and approaches. It’s a very European Evil Dead.”
Raimi previously teased that the movie will be “terrifying” and “knock people’s socks off”. Campbell also said that Evil Dead Rise is going to be a “much more excruciating” experience from an emotional level, saying:
“This one’s dark, this one’s pretty serious. Good, strong performances. It’s a single mom who now has to deal with this book. These days it’s more about the book. That book gets around, that book is handed around, passed along, people try and get rid of it, they try to bury it or destroy it and they really can’t. So this book just keeps popping up, so really it’s just another story of what happens if this book appears in this particular group of people’s lives and how it intersects.”
The movie stars Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings) and Lily Sullivan (Picnic at Hanging Rock) and they’re joined by Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence), Morgan Davies (The End) and Nell Fisher (Splendid Isolation).
Evil Dead Rise will hit the big screen on April 21, 2023. Oh yeah! The movie also used 6,500 liters of blood during production!