Evil Dead Rise - Movie Reviews (2024)

It’s always good to see a reboot do well. And the latest addition to the Evil Dead franchise, which started with Sam Raimi’s iconic 1981 film The Evil Dead, does exceptionally well.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2024

Evil Dead Rise remains a downright depraved, groovily gory fifth entry in this horror series.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Evil Dead Rise may lack some of the dark comedy of its predecessors, but the tankards of blood and intensity of its horror more than make up for it.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2024

Evil Dead Rise is a return to unpretentious and unrestrained, gore-soaked terror for mainstream horror, bringing the franchise back to be with the maggots, in the best possible way.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

It’s thoroughly tense with genuine hair-raising moments. The movie only falters when it doubles down on the gore at the expense of character development: it wastes an opportunity to pursue more lasting unease as opposed to just temporary thrills.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2024

Evil Dead Rise is certainly a throw back to the good old school style of horror and the result is a film that delivers what horror fans have been calling out for – good old-fashioned gore within a creative story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2023

…whatever this used to be, it’s deader than dead now…

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 26, 2023

Evil Dead Rise is sleekly modern, emotionally gripping, and absolutely brutal, gory and appalling, but still fun. Cronin goes there and goes all the way.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2023

This is an enormously fun thing to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 12, 2023

If you'd told me and my friends as we were watching that grainy Thorn EMI Evil Dead videotape that not only would the franchise continue into the 21st century, but it'd actually be thriving, we'd have pelted you with Cool Ranch Doritos.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 8, 2023

The action in Lee Cronin’s film moves from the ubiquitous cabin in the woods to an urban setting without losing any of the blood, guts, gore or giggles along the way

Full Review | Aug 27, 2023

Evil Dead Rise packs everything I love about Evil Dead: Grotesque kills blended together with dark humor. I loved every minute of it.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2023

It did a thing that a lot of franchises that get rezooted don't get to do. Which is have fun while also nodding to the past. Because a lot of them get stuck nodding.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2023

Evil Dead Rise is as perfect of an Evil Dead movie you can get in todays climate. A definite improvement over the 2013 re-imagining.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Aug 1, 2023

It's a strong entry in a strong franchise. I hope Raimi does the next one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2023

Evil Dead Rise makes an already-solid horror franchise even stronger and introduces fresh, demented nightmares to the psyche. As the blood flows, the fun seems to have only begun.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2023

Just go with the flow and you’ll be rewarded with one of the most sanguinary and gory films in the whole franchise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2023

Evil Dead Rise left me wanting more Surely an awesome time in a lot of ways! specifically the third act which goes HARD, but a lot of the film just didn’t give me that magic feeling that the rest of the franchise has

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 22, 2023

While Evil Dead Rise definitely knows the series it's in, it's no mere exercise in blasting expected targets.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2023

Evil Dead Rise retains just enough of the core elements from the original, a touch of the extravagant excess from the previous one, and an over-the-top, devil-may-care attitude that would make PG-13 horror films look like kids' movies

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023