Movie · 2023 · Horror, Thriller · 1h 36m · R · English
Curator score: 3.5/10 (942K ratings)
Mommy loves you to death.
Overview
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.
Ratings
Curator score: 3.5/10
IMDb: 6.5/10
Letterboxd: 3.14/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
Metacritic: 69
TMDB: 6.9/10
Director
Lee Cronin
Production
Pacific Renaissance Pictures, Wild Atlantic Pictures, New Line Cinema, Renaissance Pictures
Cast
Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, Nell Fisher, Mark Mitchinson, Jayden Daniels, Mirabai Pease, Tai Wano, Noah Paul, Melissa Xiao, Billy Reynolds-McCarthy, Richard Crouchley, Anna-Maree Thomas, Bruce Campbell, Nedim Jahić, Greta van den Brink
Where to watch
Max
Curator Review
Verdict
A nasty, efficient possession movie that trades the franchise’s cabin-in-the-woods setup for a claustrophobic apartment nightmare. It’s strongest as a relentless creature-feature with practical gore, mean streak, and a surprisingly effective family-under-siege angle.
Best for
fans of high-energy possession horror
viewers who want practical effects and gore
people who like cramped, siege-style thrillers
audiences open to a darkly comic tone
Skip if
you want slow-burn psychological horror
you dislike extreme gore and body horror
you need deep character development over set-pieces
you’re tired of demonic-possession formulas
Overview
Evil Dead Rise is a blunt instrument in the best way: loud, grisly, and designed to keep tightening the screws. Moving the carnage into a high-rise apartment gives the franchise a fresh pressure-cooker setting, and the movie makes excellent use of walls, hallways, elevators, and thin floors to turn ordinary domestic space into a trap.
Worth noting
The film works less as a mystery than as a sequence of escalating shocks, and that’s largely the point. It leans hard into practical gore, grotesque transformations, and a nasty sense of humor, while the family dynamic gives the violence a more emotional edge than pure splatter. The performances help sell the panic, especially when the movie shifts from dread to full-on survival mode.
Bottom line
It may not be the most inventive possession film ever made, but it is one of the most confidently executed recent ones. If you want a slick, mean, crowd-pleasing horror ride that knows exactly how far to push its audience, this delivers.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Jay (4★) · 18481 likes
do NOT pass the goth kid the aux! they will start playing century old readings of the necronomicon ex-mortis book of the dead!
aaron (4★) · 10790 likes
strong contender for best title card of all time really
Framesofnick (4★) · 10289 likes
Me one microsecond without the zaza
Edit: I’ve reflected on this review and found it to still be funny 3 years later. Great movie tho
Wes (4★) · 9257 likes
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Patrick Willems (3★) · 7197 likes
Features three different colors of puke. Thumbs up.