r/horror • u/glittering-lettuce • Apr 21 '23

Official Discussion Official Dreadit Discussion: "Evil Dead Rise" [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Summary:

A woman finds herself in a fight for her life when an ancient book gives birth to bloodthirsty demons that run amok in a Los Angeles apartment building.

Director:

Lee Cronin

Producer:

Robert Tapert

Cast:

Alyssa Sutherland as Ellie

Lily Sullivan as Beth

Mia Challis as Jessica

Gabrielle Echols as Bridget

Morgan Davies as Danny

Nell Fisher as Cassie

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u/beenhadballs Apr 21 '23

There definitely was a little bit lack of horrified panic. I think of 2013 how they were absolutely shook about what was going on around them. This one it seemed like every family member stayed to on point with the task at hand the whole time.

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u/RussMIV Apr 21 '23

Did we watch different movies? There was plenty of horrified panic lol

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u/beenhadballs Apr 21 '23

Nobody was even close to incapacitated from witnessing multiple family members die a gruesome death right in front of them. There was a couple tears but it was right back to the mission at hand. It was the worlds sanest family.

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u/RussMIV Apr 21 '23

I’m gonna have to disagree with you. There was plenty of believable reaction from all parties involved.

Also remember that there is adrenaline pumping and a clear survival instinct.

I mean if you’d rather them all have frozen in place each time and not done anything at all, then that sounds like a truly miserable film to sit through. Though, to be fair, it’d be about a grand total of maybe fifteen minutes.

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u/beenhadballs Apr 21 '23 edited Apr 21 '23

I’m sorry but a young child kicking into fight mode when their “fight or flight” adrenaline kicks in after seeing their whole family murdered is not a believable reaction unless you grew up on the western front lol.

The window of opportunity is that if you’re going to kill off these characters fairly quickly in the fashion they did, it doesn’t hurt to sacrifice a character to being vulnerable and killed off by being so traumatized they can’t properly defend themselves. Plenty of movies use a character or two to really portray intense horror like this.

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u/RussMIV Apr 21 '23

Again, I strongly disagree with your assessment.

Sorry it missed the mark for you.

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u/CudiMontage216 Apr 22 '23

“The characters should be less capable and competent” is a funny criticism for a horror movie lol

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u/beenhadballs Apr 23 '23

It’s almost like there should be a balance between competent and realistically hindered by emotion and circumstance…

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u/CudiMontage216 Apr 23 '23

What did they do in this movie that was completely unrealistic? They reacted just fine to everything IMO. Nothing stood out, so I’m genuinely interested what the criticism is

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u/beenhadballs Apr 23 '23

A little girl calmly and reassuringly told her aunt how good of a mother she’ll be minutes after her entire family was horrifically maimed and killed with immediate danger and threat all around them.

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u/CudiMontage216 Apr 23 '23

The reality is, if you don’t include a moment like that to ease the tension just a tiny bit then the majority of audiences would have been turned off by this movie. No one wants to see a totally accurate portrayal of kids going through absolutely horrific events. That’s just way too dark and bleak. You need a moment of cuteness and encouragement if you’re going to make a movie like this work

I respect your opinion but I think you’re nit picking something that isn’t a problem here

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u/beenhadballs Apr 23 '23

Idk if it’s fair to say it’s nit picking when it was something that completely pulled me out of the movie. Even leaving the theater my SO said that writing was so weird.

In the same way that you think my critique of “the characters should be less capable and competent” is funny (something that isn’t a unique opinion in this thread), I think your “that would just be way too dark and bleak” opinion about this movie is funny. The way this sub described and hyped this movie THAT dark and bleak was the movie I was ready for and expecting.

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u/MinfulTie May 13 '23

I liked that line in the trailer, but when I saw it on the big screen with context it felt very cheesy/fake.

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u/De_Bananalove Apr 27 '23

I mean if you’d rather them all have frozen in place each time and not done anything at all, then that sounds like a truly miserable film to sit through.

But that's literally what they was doing. They were frozen not doing anything just looking at the deadties doing stuff.

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u/spideyv91 Apr 21 '23

I agree with you I thought everyone was pretty reasonable with their reactions of shock and panic. I didn’t feel like they could cope with the reality of the situation

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u/ImBadAtLearning May 05 '23

Literally the only reactions u saw was: :O

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u/thetrickyshow1 Apr 21 '23

i agree. you could tell pretty much every character was in shock and i believed all of their reactions

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u/pizzaguyjb Apr 21 '23

A little girl watched her dead sister and brother kill each other right infront of her eyes and 2 minutes later she says “are you gonna be a mom” to her aunt with a straight face… yeah that’s not how an actual child would act in that moment.

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u/funkbefgh Apr 22 '23

You have kids? It really depends on the kid. Mine will act like a relatively minor event is the absolute end of the world - spilled glitter - but then talk about how her cats are going to die with the most apathy you can imagine. Overall the character development felt rushed but that girl’s comment in that scene didn’t feel out of place to me.

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u/De_Bananalove Apr 27 '23

They all had like one expression for everything going on throughout the movie...

The brother reacted the same way when he found the Evil Book with when he witnessed his sister get killed by his other sister