Overview: After being hand-picked by the legendary Sam Raimi, director Lee Cronin takes the Evil Dead franchise into a bold new direction in Evil Dead Rise, out of the woods and into the big city.

Beth’s surprise reunion with her sister Ellie is interrupted by an earthquake that shakes the foundation of her apartment building. Amidst the rubble, Ellie’s kids discover a secret vault hidden in the basement, inside which they find an ancient book bound in flesh and inked in human blood - the Necronomicon.

As the building’s residents are possessed one by one and the evil rises floor to floor, the family get-together becomes a fight for survival!

Never have the Deadites been so terrifying in this bold and blood-soaked revival of the classic series, now in a definitive extras-packed, director-approved edition.

4K Blu-ray Verdict: Let me make this clear from the very off: This film is absolutely NOT for everyone! It was VERY graphic, VERY violent and does not have a plot that takes really any braincells to process. I can easily imagine it loses a good few viewers to the This is just torture porn at this point territory. And yet despite all of that, I feel like I finally watched an actually GOOD HORROR MOVIE. Indeed, I don’t remember which horror movie I felt great about before this one, in truth.

It’s not that I want a gore-filled ultra violent movie for it to be good, just that it’s consistent. That it sets the mood and goes with it, no compromise and no sudden need for some happy-go-lucky ending or explanation, yet this still had an ending that satisfied a resolution which didn’t feel like it just did something and then just ended.

I think this was just a relentless and disturbing ride from the very beginning to the end and it did not have that annoying tone shift that incredibly many horror movies have, where it sets one tone for 70% of the movie and the ending goes for an entirely different tone and therefor makes you feel it got kinda ridiculous at the end.

I also feel like the evil in it was shown in a very menacing way. The absolutely fantastic performance from Alyssa Sutherland plays a big part in that. She managed to be genuinely disturbing, even when saying everyday lines in that state. Something that is often very hit-and-miss territory. So if you’re into classics like Freddy Krueger and Jason Vorhees and like good kills done well, you’ll have a few scenes here that will scratch that itch too!

So all in all, this was a very demonic, uncompromisingly violent and powerful ride from the beginning to the end and I felt that all it did, it did better than your average horror flick today. It also had me actually tense up as it pushed further than movies usually do ... which I don’t really remember having happened in the past decade or so! [S.E.]

4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 and Dolby Atmos audio options
English audio descriptive track
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio commentary with director Lee Cronin and actors Alyssa Sullivan and Lily Sullivan
Come Get Some, a brand new interview with actor Lily Sullivan
Mommy Deadite, a brand new interview with actor Alyssa Sutherland
The Deadite’s Daughter, a brand new interview with actor Gabrielle Echols
The Levitating Dead, a brand new interview with actor Anna-Maree Thomas Conjuring Deadites, a brand new interview with special make-up effects designer Luke Polti
Chopping Up Deadites, a brand new interview with editor Bryan Shaw
Sonic Possessions, a brand new interview with sound designer Peter Albrechtsen
Music to Swallow Your Soul, a brand new interview with composer Stephen McKeon
The Sound of Evil Dead Rise, a 2023 interview with Cronin and Albrechtsen by Glenn Kiser, director of the Dolby Institute
Raising a New Evil Dead featurette
Ghost Train, a 2013 short film directed by Lee Cronin
Behind-the-scenes video clips and still gallery
Concept artwork gallery
Storyboard gallery
Trailer and TV spots
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Waldemar Witt
Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Waldemar Witt
Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Gingold

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