The Evil Dead franchise is back this year not only with Evil Dead: The Game, now available, but also with new movie Evil Dead Rise, set to debut exclusively on HBO Max here in 2022.
We still don’t yet have a release date for Evil Dead Rise, but it’s interesting to note that the very first footage from the movie was just shown off during a Warner Bros. Discovery upfront presentation this morning. That footage is not expected to make its way online, to be clear, but Eric Goldman over on Twitter has reported back on what he saw at the event.
Goldman tweets, “Evil Dead Rise footage in HBO Max movie montage! A possessed girl looking all Deadite-y standing up on a kitchen counter screaming at a dude.”
On a related note, we just got in the book The Art of Evil Dead: The Game from the Collector’s Edition set, and within is a new interview from Bruce Campbell with some Evil Dead Rise chatter. He mostly talks about the tone of the movie, teasing a “very adult” new film.
“I’m very excited about it. It’s going to be really cool and very, very intense. It’s dark, a very adult Evil Dead movie,” Campbell teases. “I wouldn’t call it a yuck fest – it’s pretty tough, pretty hard-hitting stuff. And that’s the variation that you have within the Evil Dead franchise and within horror itself. It’s all about the filmmaker.”
Campbell continues, “Sam Raimi handpicks these guys, and so Lee Cronin is the guy who directed it, and he’s a little bit of a serious dude. So you let him do his thing.”
It sounds like we can expect Evil Dead Rise to be more tonally similar to Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead movie than Sam Raimi’s sequels, less “splatstick” humor and more dark and grim.
Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for Evil Dead Rise…
“In the fifth Evil Dead film, a road-weary Beth pays an overdue visit to her older sister Ellie, who is raising three kids on her own in a cramped L.A apartment. The sisters’ reunion is cut short by the discovery of a mysterious book deep in the bowels of Ellie’s building, giving rise to flesh-possessing demons, and thrusting Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood imaginable.”
Gabrielle Echols (Reminiscence), Morgan Davies (The End) and Nell Fisher (Splendid Isolation) will star in the new movie alongside Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan.
Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert are producing Evil Dead Rise. According to Campbell, the three have been “very involved” in the project every step of the way.
Evil Dead Rise footage in HBO Max movie montage! A possessed girl looking all Deadite-y standing up on a kitchen counter screaming at a dude.
— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) May 18, 2022
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