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...

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’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.

An unmissable horror hit

It’s “Mommie Dearest” gone wild.

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.

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.