Evil Dead Rise (2023) poster
2023 · horror

Evil Dead Rise

Directed by Lee Cronin1h 36m2023
ElsewhereIMDb6.5165kRT85%Metacritic69TMDB6.94k
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Our read · Evil Dead Rise (2023) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want relentless family horror with vicious, well-crafted practical gore tonight.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 18attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgoregraphic violencebody horrorchild periljump scares

Skip it tonightBody horror and child peril will ruin your night, not thrill you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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