Evil Dead Rise (2023)
As you can 't expect Bruce Campbell to be playing Ash Williams until he's 90, it made sense for the franchise to be rebooted of sorts. But fret not, the people behind the modern version of 'Evil Dead' pretty much knew what they were doing and under the auspices of original mind Sam Raimi, it was a visceral and bloody experience. Maybe not as iconic as the original (but what can be?) but with its bloody heart in the right place. Something that also can be said about this sequel, which is a good time alround. After a brief introduction which makes the audience believe we will be getting a retread of happenings in a cabin in the woods, we change the locale to a condemned apartment building, where a family of four (mom and her three kids) is visited by the sister who has been on the road for years on end and who has become pregnant without knowing what to do next. Life is tough for the family, but when the kids discover a secret basement of sorts after an earthquake, the...
