Evil Dead Rise review: A return to bloody good fun for the demonic franchise

Woman inhabited by a demon terrorizes her kids in the franchise’s bloody new installment.

The first sequel in a full decade, this should feel like getting an Evil Dead reunion, but instead it’s more akin to a so-so tribute band.

Any franchise that can be kept alive on the cheap is especially hard to kill, and so it is with “Evil Dead Rise,” a Bruce Campbell-free (other than his p...

It may not be as groovy as Sam Raimi's entries, but director Lee Cronin delivers plenty of viscera in Evil Dead Rise. Read our review here.

The latest installment in the horror film franchise swaps madcap zaniness and black comedy for an unceasing grimness that’s both oppressive and exhausting.

Latest chapter in the series lacks the spirit of earlier entries.

Lee Cronin picks up the reins from Sam Raimi for a new chapter of the Evil Dead series. Read the Empire review.

Evil Dead Rise sees the franchise back once again in cinemas, full of gory glory.

In the latest entry in Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's series, a mother and her children must fight the demonic forces in their apartment.

Lee Cronin’s franchise revival is a daring exercise in familial torment

Writer and director Lee Cronin brings horror and hell back home.

Irish director Lee Cronin flings new ingredients into the flying-viscera-and-Three-Stooges-slapstick recipe

'Evil Dead Rise' revives Sam Raimi's seminal slasher franchise more than 40 years after the original with gore, glee and an L.A. setting.

Lee Cronin’s affectionate, gore-caked remix of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead offers an innovative and breathtaking model of how to exhume a beloved genre…

An unmissable horror hit

It’s “Mommie Dearest” gone wild.

Once Evil Dead Rise really gets going, it doesn’t let up.

There are some genuine frights amid the gruesome, gory, eyes-averting horror of “Evil Dead Rise,” a reboot of/homage to the franchise that made Sam Raimi...

Throughout 'Evil Dead Rise,' writer-director Lee Cronin serves up considerable gore with monotonous, po-faced earnestness.

Evil Dead Rise is the *most* Evil Dead movie in a long, long time.

The fifth film in the series is violent and jolting as well as being profoundly amusing and full of soul

A memorable flying eyeball gag aside, the latest Evil Dead film falls well below the standard of the blood-soaked original.

Sam Raimi didn’t build this seminal horror universe only for something this witless and lack of originality to come along and taint things.

Like the latest Scream installment, Evil Dead Rise takes its horror into an urban landscape, grappling with demonic forces––e.g. motherhood––that are...

The film doesn’t shy away from what makes the franchise great: rivers of blood, unrelenting evil, and ingenious weaponry

When the lights go out, the body count mounts in Lee Cronin’s urban nightmare 'Evil Dead Rise,' an imaginatively scary franchise extension.

With Evil Dead Rise, a series that once ran on silly slapstick and goofy gore becomes drab franchise fodder.

Watch out kids - "Mommy is with the maggots".