Evil Dead Rise. I don't like horror films - not cos they're scary - i find them boring. I thought this would be a comical ode to the originally evil dead, which I loved as a 14 year old and which I watched a couple of years ago and thought it was hilarious. This was neither funny nor scary and the only bit I really enjoyed was the first 5 mins which was absolutely reminiscent of the original and best. And it all went downhill from there.
The film starts so well. The speedy camera - of the infamous tree-rape scene - is superbly renditioned, and we soon find it's a mere.remote controlled drone. A modern take which I thought worked really well. But it then switched to "1 day earlier" and the rest of the film wasn't an Evil Dead film at all. The film will do well - they've cleverly jumped on the otherwise dead Evil Dead franchise. But it had no humour of the original. Just gore - which I found tedious.
4 out of ten.
The film starts so well. The speedy camera - of the infamous tree-rape scene - is superbly renditioned, and we soon find it's a mere.remote controlled drone. A modern take which I thought worked really well. But it then switched to "1 day earlier" and the rest of the film wasn't an Evil Dead film at all. The film will do well - they've cleverly jumped on the otherwise dead Evil Dead franchise. But it had no humour of the original. Just gore - which I found tedious.
4 out of ten.