Evil Dead Rise | 2023 Movies RANKED - Episode 18

Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list.

Previous Episode RANKED List:
1. Beau Is Afraid
2. Infinity Pool
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Air
5. Creed III
6. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
7. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
8. M3GAN
9. missing
10. Scream VI
11. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
12. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
13. Renfield
14. Magic Mike’s Last Dance
15. Knock at the Cabin
16. Plane
17. Cocaine Bear

Evil Dead Rise isn’t great, nor is it good, but it doesn’t suck, it’s just blah, which might be even worse. How can a movie have such intense visuals, and yet garner zero reaction?

Yet again somebody finds a creepy book and makes the mistake of reading from it, only to have everyone around them die horribly at the hands of a demon possessed friend or relative. There’s so much potential in a formula like this to tell a story with characters we might care about, and yet it isn’t so.

The old Evil Dead movies are terrifying, and yet charming and creative and fun, that’s why they work. This new installment is neither fun nor charming because it is essentially just a one trick pony: shocking bloody visuals. The problem is that these well produced visuals have no purpose, no context, no rules specific to this darker Evil Dead universe to provide meaning or direction for the story. Instead, everything is just chaos, so despite the intense violence the biggest shock of all is the irony of just how flat it all lands.

Un-desensitized kids might find this scary, but without emotional resonance to mix in with the gore-fest, it’s nothing but a bore-fest, despite the trademarked over the top blood orgy.

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