Fresh off last year’s Evil Dead Rise, director Lee Cronin will next be directing an untitled horror movie for Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster, THR reports tonight. The Hollywood Reporter previews the project in their exclusive report, “Lee Cronin is rising with a new, mysterious project described as a modern take on something ancient.” […]
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“You’d be a good mom someday, Auntie Beth. You know how to lie to kids.” In 1981, visionary director Sam Raimi unleashed The Evil Dead and changed horror forever. This tentpole franchise not only popularized the “cabin in the woods” subgenre but remains one of the most creative and bloody sagas in the genre’s history. […]
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Fresh off the box office success of Evil Dead Rise last year, Lee Cronin has formed a new production outfit titled Doppelgängers, and he’s also inked a deal with New Line Cinema. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news this afternoon. According to the site, Doppelgängers will be focused on “genre fare,” and Cronin has formed […]
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Here in the United States, Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise is headed to Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD on June 27, but you won’t find any special features listed on the back of the box. Bloody Disgusting has learned, however, that the UK home video release of Evil Dead Rise from StudioCanal will include two […]
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Before making his mark on the Evil Dead franchise with new movie Evil Dead Rise, director Lee Cronin cut his teeth on a mixture of commercials and short films. That early career work eventually led to Cronin’s feature debut The Hole in the Ground in 2019, an A24-released horror movie that soon led to Cronin […]
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Writer/Director Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise presented several buzzworthy Evil Dead moments and set pieces, including the title card that arrives just as a Deadite rises from the lake. All of it, of course, by meticulous design as evidenced by the film’s stunning concept art. Cronin took to Twitter today to share some of the concept art […]
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The following contains major spoilers for Evil Dead (2013) and Evil Dead Rise (2023). Of the many horror franchises, few are as creatively violent as The Evil Dead. Sam Raimi’s 1981 original garnered an NC-17 rating for “substantial horror violence and gore” and Stephen King described the low-budget indie as “the most ferociously original horror […]
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Evil Dead Rise is here! After much deliberation, the Halloweenies finally scale the high rise that is Lee Cronin‘s much-anticipated reimagining. Together, they discuss the ways it leans on the past, looks to the future, and measures up to the rest of the franchise. They also digress on the gore, the family dynamics, and whether […]
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While we wait for Evil Dead Rise next month, THR reports this afternoon that Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground) will next be directing the movie Thaw for New Line Cinema. Jeremy Passmore (San Andreas) wrote the original script, which sold to Gunpowder & Sky. THR reports that Lee Cronin will be rewriting the […]
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Bloody Disgusting is excited to announce today they will be hosting an early screening of Evil Dead Rise right here in Chicago! Join “Bloody Bites” and Skeletons in the Closet‘s Tony Wash on Thursday, April 6th for an extremely early screening of the latest Evil Dead at Showplace ICON at Roosevelt Collection (1011 S. Delano Court […]
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“Mommy’s with the maggots now.” Actor Alyssa Sutherland immediately grabbed our attention as Ellie, in Deadite form, when she uttered this line in the Evil Dead Rise trailer. The new entry in the beloved franchise, written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), arrives exclusively in theaters on April 21, 2023. Cronin’s Evil […]
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Writer/Director Lee Cronin’s (The Hole in the Ground) Evil Dead Rise relocates the terror from a cabin in the woods to a high rise Los Angeles apartment building, bringing a new style of Deadite mayhem to the franchise. Evil Dead Rise is coming exclusively to theaters on April 21, 2023, and it brought the house down during its world premiere at […]
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Sam Raimi’s Oldsmobile Delta 88 has become one of the most iconic vehicles in horror, driven by Ash Williams throughout the Evil Dead franchise. The classic car has also appeared in pretty much every single thing Raimi has ever directed, most recently popping up for a cameo appearance in the Raimi-directed Doctor Strange in the […]
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Bloody Disgusting’s Evil Dead Rise review is spoiler-free. A lakeside cabin opening sequence in Evil Dead Rise, written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), operates as a declaration that the latest installment of this franchise will fit snugly within the world of Evil Dead while branching out into new terrain and ideas. That means a […]
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One thing you should not expect to see in the upcoming Evil Dead Rise is franchise hero Ash Williams, as the new movie will instead focus on new characters. And for what it’s worth, Bruce Campbell has made it very clear in recent years that he has retired from playing the character in the world […]
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