Evil Dead Rise | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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Evil Dead Rise currently sports a 96 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, the best score of the entire Evil Dead franchise. The original The Evil Dead (1981) has an 85 percent, Evil Dead II (1987) has an 88 percent, Army of Darkness (1992) has a 69 percent, and Evil Dead (2013) has a 63 percent.

To date, Leave No Trace holds the site's record, with a rating of 100% and 252 positive reviews.

Evil Dead Rise, the fifth film in the franchise, is now streaming on Max and arrives on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. The critically acclaimed New York-set supernatural horror has grossed $146.3 million against a budget of between $15 million and $19 million.

While it is highly debatable that the scariest Evil Dead movie is Army of Darkness, Evil Dead II comes pretty close — especially when you ask a 7-year-old.

On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films that have exclusively positive reviews and have been reviewed by at least five critics have a 100% approval rating.

The website keeps track of all the reviews counted for each film and calculates the percentage of positive reviews. If the positive reviews make up 60% or more, the film is considered "fresh". If the positive reviews are less than 60%, the film is considered "rotten".

The Evil Dead movies always had simple stories, but this one feels like there is even less going on than usual. A family gets trapped in a building and deadites stalk them. Nothing really creative or memorable happens. I didn't even feel any tension, let alone actual fear.

It is torture to watch Kassie slowly but surely believe that the demon is Ellie. It's a psychologically thrilling sequence mixed in with jump scares that keep the audience on the edge of their seats.

Cronin, the Irish writer and director of “Evil Dead Rise,” the fifth feature installment in the cult horror series, lights up when discussing gore on set. “We used 6,500 liters [1,717 gallons] of blood on the movie,” he said. “That is real, sticky, cooked movie blood.

After seeing “Evil Dead Rise,” I felt like I had committed some terrible, unspoken sin and that's a compliment. It's an excessively violent, indulgently gory, yet extremely fun time for horror fans. The movie strays away from the roots of Sam Raimi's “Evil Dead” franchise and moves to a rural, apartment setting.

Was Evil Dead a flop? ›

That movie was “Evil Dead.” It ended up grossing millions, jumpstarting both his career and the careers of Bruce Campbell and his brothers. The sequel, “Evil Dead II,” would become a cult hit and a tremendous box office success.

The Evil Dead (Evil Dead) was a low budget horror film released in 1981, and was made for just $350,000.

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A place where all the critic reviews are Fresh, as far as the eye can see, without a Rotten mark to disrupt all the 1s and their attendant 0s in the percentage scores. It's a tough road for a movie to get a 100% with critics, fraught with peril.

As the reviews of a given film accumulate, the Rotten Tomatoes score measures the percentage that are more positive than negative, and assigns an overall fresh or rotten rating to the movie. Scores of over 60 percent are considered fresh, and scores of 59 percent and under are rotten.