It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, the Force is coming home. No, not Star Wars' Force, but the demonic entity from The Evil Dead - the one that zooms through the woods, toppling trees, on its way to possessing people and turning them into cackling, deformed killers known as Deadites.
And it's not coming home to its old stomping ground of Tennessee, but to Los Angeles. Because uniquely, the fifth entry in the now 42-year-old series - perhaps horror's most gleefully excessive franchise- unfolds not in the traditional setting of a cabin in the woods, but (for the most part) in an ordinary family apartment. Just because this is domestic horror, however, don't make the mistake of thinking that the Deadites have been domesticated...
DEAD KEEN
Evil Dead Rise is a coming home of sorts for Lee Cronin too. The second feature for the Irish director, after 2019’s The Hole In The Ground, it brings things full circle. Because Cronin was possessed by a love for Sam Raimi’s ’80s Evil Dead movies at an eyebrow-raisingly young age… “I saw The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II when I was about eight or nine,” the director tells SFX, “back to back on VHS – my dad had rented them. In my household, there were no age restrictions on anything.”
Though it’s too late to phone social services, you may be thinking that this could have (given an abundance of bodily dismemberment) disastrously warped the little Lee’s brain. Happily, it instead helped place him on the path towards becoming a horror director. Er, if there’s any distinction there…
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ANCER MAHAGEMENT
WITH A NEW TRILOGY IN SIGHT, WE SPEAK TO THE DIRECTOR OF 28 WEEKS LATER THE ORIGINAL CHILLING SEQUEL TO DANNY BOYLE'S SEMINAL SURVIVAL HORROR
WHO YA CONNA CALL?
BEHIND THE SCENES AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS FOR GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
THE DEVIL'S HOUR STRIKES TWICE AS THE GENREDEFYING DRAMA RETURNS
SCARRY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK
FROM THE RETURN OF EC COMICS TO SCREAM!, THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN OFFERS UP HORROR COMICS FOR ALL THE AGES
UNDEADS REFLECTIONS
NEIL JORDAN ON BRINGING ANNE RICE'S MODERN VAMPIRE CLASSIC TO SCREEN, 30 YEARS ON
MUNSTER MASH!
PRODUCTION HELL, SHOCK RECASTING AND HOTLY CONTESTED AUTHORSHIP. AS THE MUNSTERS CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY, WE UNCOVER HOW THE SPOOKY SITCOM WAS ALMOST DEAD ON ARRIVAL
COMING TO AMERICA
THE MOGWAI LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THEIR SECOND CHAPTER, GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH
BEING HUMAN EVOLUTION
IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN INSTANT HIT, BUT BBC THREE'S DARKLY COMIC DRAMA ABOUT A HOUSE-SHARING VAMPIRE/WEREWOLF/GHOST TRIO HAD A STRANGE JOURNEY TO THE SCREEN, SERIES CREATOR TOBY WHITHOUSE TELLS SFX
THE MAINE EVENT
THE DARK IS RISING IN SALEM'S LOT AS STEPHEN KING'S DEATHLESS TALE RETURNS TO THE SCREEN
WHY DON'T YOU STAY FOR A BITE?
THE VAMPIRE COMES HOME AS DIRECTOR EUROS LYN WELCOMES SFX TO HIS NEW DARK COMEDY THE RADLEYS