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.

Like Fede Alvarez's 2013 film, Lee Cronin's take on Sam Raimi's franchise is grim, humorless, and barely equates to an 'Evil Dead' movie.

Sam Raimi’s demonic franchise finds a gorily enjoyable way to rise again

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

In 'Evil Dead Rise,' written and directed by Lee Cronin, a mother and her children must fight the demonic forces in their apartment.

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

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.

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

Formulaic installment in the horror franchise about parasitic demons has big shoes to fill but gets the job done.

Deadites go to the big city in the franchise's fifth film

'Evil Dead Rise' dispenses with the traditional cabin-in-the-woods setting, and replaces it with inner-city chaos

Movie review: The new horror film ‘Evil Dead Rise’ is another entry in the ‘Evil Dead’ series that does injustice to Sam Raimi’s original horror-comedy trilogy. With Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan. Bruce Campbell makes a voice cameo, apparently.

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

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

'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.

Evil Dead Rise, the fifth big-screen outing for SamRaimi’s Deadites (they also had a three-season run on cable TV) tries to answerthe question of whether The Evil Dead are strong enough on their own right toengage the viewer without the dominating ...

Evil Dead Rise is both a familiar and refreshing Evil Dead sequel that delivers all the gore you’d expect with a measured dose of the humor that makes this series a fan favorite.

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

A Hole in the Ground director Lee Cronin blends Sam Raimi’s goofy mayhem with Fede Álvarez’s flair for the disturbing in Evil Dead Rise, the new entry in the horror-comedy franchise that includes Army of Darkness. In theaters April 21.

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

The obviously gory sort-of-sequel "Evil Dead Rise" from director Lee Cronin is as campy and fun as any chapter in producer Sam Raimi’s four-decade-old horror series. But trapping kids in an apartment raises the stakes and brings on legitimate scares. And some hearty laughs, too. 

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

A well-made new chapter in Sam Raimi’s splatter series delivers some impressively nasty violence but fails to leave much of a lasting impression

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

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

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 franchise.

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 producing role) addition to the horror staple. The movie was initially earmarked for streaming, and looks the part with its bare-bones story, although for those who just want to see buckets of blood and chainsaws, that’s probably enough to get the job done.

The latest in the horror series has bucketloads of gore but lacks wit

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