Evil Dead Rise, il reboot diretto da Lee Cronin (The Hole in The Ground), ha ottenuto un rating R per "violenza, gore e linguaggio inappropriato".
Evil Dead Rise Is the new chapter in the saga Evil Dead and will arrive in 2022 directly streaming on HBO Max, WarnerMedia's platform. The release date has not yet been announced.
Sam Raimi, the creator of the franchise, appears in the project as a producer, along with longtime partner Robert Tapert and his friend Bruce Campbell, the actor who played Ash Williams in the saga Evil Dead.
Evil Dead Rise is written and directed by Lee Cronin, who announced the end of filming in New Zealand last October with a message on Twitter.
In a social media post also, the director revealed that the crew used over 6,500 liters of fake blood during filming. According to what Lee Cronin revealed then, we should expect a gore film, in line with Evil Dead (1981) and the remake directed by Fede Álvarez in 2013.
Plot of Evil Dead Rise: Beth visits her older sister Ellie, who is raising three children alone in a small apartment in Los Angeles. This sisterly reunion is interrupted by the discovery of a mysterious book in the bowels of the building in which Ellie lives. It is the Necronomicon, a dangerous text containing rituals to summon demons and which will force Beth to fight a battle for survival.
The cast includes Alyssa Sutherland, Lily Sullivan, Gabrielle Echols, Morgan Davies, Mia Challis and Nell Fisher.
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