Exclusive: Sugarcane has become the latest big documentary deal out of the Sundance Film Festival.
Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Deadline understands that the Disney-owned factual brand has struck a deal in the low seven-figures. The doc comes from filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie.
National Geographic Documentary Films will roll out Sugarcane at global festivals throughout the rest of the year and release it in theaters before its streaming debut on Disney+.
It is the latest deal out of Sundance for National Geographic Documentary Films; the company picked up Fire Of Love, which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars, out of the festival in 2022 as well as The Territory, which came from director Alex Pritz.
There were numerous documentary deals out of...
Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Deadline understands that the Disney-owned factual brand has struck a deal in the low seven-figures. The doc comes from filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie.
National Geographic Documentary Films will roll out Sugarcane at global festivals throughout the rest of the year and release it in theaters before its streaming debut on Disney+.
It is the latest deal out of Sundance for National Geographic Documentary Films; the company picked up Fire Of Love, which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars, out of the festival in 2022 as well as The Territory, which came from director Alex Pritz.
There were numerous documentary deals out of...
- 2/21/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Tackling a timely but under-discussed contemporary issue in both the United States and Canada, journalists Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie investigate a string of abuses and missing persons cases at an indigenous residential school in Sugarcane. Below, Kassie, who in addition to directing the film with NoiseCat produced it alongside Kellen Quinn. Below, she recounts her debut experience as a producer and how she made a transition from the world of visual journalism. Filmmaker: Tell us about the professional path that led you to produce this film, your first? What jobs within and outside of the film industry did […]
The post “I Come From the One-Woman-Band Show of Visual Journalism…”: Emily Kassie on Producing Sugarcane first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Come From the One-Woman-Band Show of Visual Journalism…”: Emily Kassie on Producing Sugarcane first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/1/2024
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Tackling a timely but under-discussed contemporary issue in both the United States and Canada, journalists Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie investigate a string of abuses and missing persons cases at an indigenous residential school in Sugarcane. Below, Kassie, who in addition to directing the film with NoiseCat produced it alongside Kellen Quinn. Below, she recounts her debut experience as a producer and how she made a transition from the world of visual journalism. Filmmaker: Tell us about the professional path that led you to produce this film, your first? What jobs within and outside of the film industry did […]
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The post “I Come From the One-Woman-Band Show of Visual Journalism…”: Emily Kassie on Producing Sugarcane first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/1/2024
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
With Sugarcane, filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie deliver a multilayered film that invites audiences to confront questions about morality and justice, and to bear witness to the lasting intergenerational trauma of the Williams Lake First Nations (Secwepemc or Shuswap Nation) people stemming from the residential school system that included forced family separation, physical and sexual abuse, and the destruction of First Nation culture and language. Drawing on their backgrounds in activism and journalism — as well as NoiseCat’s own personal connection to the story and community — the filmmakers deftly weave together multiple strands to form this compelling, heartbreaking narrative.
Demonstrating unparalleled humanity, and compassion for the affected First Nation communities in North America, the powerful documentary operates from a place of pure and total empathy. At the same time, NoiseCat and Kassie recognize the resilience of the survivors and their descendants, and their determination to seek answers to long-buried secrets.
Demonstrating unparalleled humanity, and compassion for the affected First Nation communities in North America, the powerful documentary operates from a place of pure and total empathy. At the same time, NoiseCat and Kassie recognize the resilience of the survivors and their descendants, and their determination to seek answers to long-buried secrets.
- 1/29/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a moment in Sugarcane, a gut-punch of a documentary, when a central subject relays his shattering experiences with Catholic-run Native American schools in Canada. He goes quiet after testifying to a somber-looking clergyman. The camera stays with both people, allowing us to observe years of pain in the survivor’s crestfallen face and the sorrowful posture of the listener. “Being sorry is the first step,” the subject says after the priest apologizes for the role the Catholic Church played in abusing Native populations. “You have to take action.”
At the heart of Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s powerful film is this question of action. How do you act when faced with violence from the past? What does accountability look like? The documentary, which premiered in competition at Sundance, braids three narratives connected to the discovery of unmarked graves near St. Joseph’s Mission, an Indian residential...
At the heart of Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s powerful film is this question of action. How do you act when faced with violence from the past? What does accountability look like? The documentary, which premiered in competition at Sundance, braids three narratives connected to the discovery of unmarked graves near St. Joseph’s Mission, an Indian residential...
- 1/21/2024
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s impossible to overstate the trauma that is explored throughout Sugarcane, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s harrowing documentary on the sins of St. Joseph’s Mission in British Columbia and the Canadian Indian residential school system as a whole. Spurred by the discovery of over 200 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021, NoiseCat and Kassie speak with investigators and survivors of the schools, one of them Julian Brave NoiseCat’s own father: Ed Archie NoiseCat.
Since the the 19th century, the Canadian government forced Indigenous children to attend boarding schools that were primarily run by the Catholic Church. If the pronounced goal was something like cultural acclimation/assimilation, the price many kids paid was too great to calculate. Widespread allegations of abuse, rape, and torture were largely ignored for generations. Rosalin Sam, a survivor of St. Joseph’s Mission, recounts the circular direction of denied responsibility.
Since the the 19th century, the Canadian government forced Indigenous children to attend boarding schools that were primarily run by the Catholic Church. If the pronounced goal was something like cultural acclimation/assimilation, the price many kids paid was too great to calculate. Widespread allegations of abuse, rape, and torture were largely ignored for generations. Rosalin Sam, a survivor of St. Joseph’s Mission, recounts the circular direction of denied responsibility.
- 1/21/2024
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Sugarcane, co-directed by journalists Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an investigation into the abuse and missing persons cases at an indigenous residential school and the associated tumult on the nearby Reserve. It is the debut film by NoiseCat, a former policy with personal ties to the community, and the second, after A Girl Named C, for Kassie. Christopher Lamarca served as cinematographer, his second such credit, after Ry Russo-Young’s Nuclear Family. Below, he discusses some of the challenges peculiar to shooting verité films. See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you […]
The post “The Biggest Challenge on a Verité Production is Time”: Dp Christopher Lamarca on Sugarcane first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “The Biggest Challenge on a Verité Production is Time”: Dp Christopher Lamarca on Sugarcane first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/20/2024
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Sugarcane, co-directed by journalists Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an investigation into the abuse and missing persons cases at an indigenous residential school and the associated tumult on the nearby Reserve. It is the debut film by NoiseCat, a former policy with personal ties to the community, and the second, after A Girl Named C, for Kassie. Christopher Lamarca served as cinematographer, his second such credit, after Ry Russo-Young’s Nuclear Family. Below, he discusses some of the challenges peculiar to shooting verité films. See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you […]
The post “The Biggest Challenge on a Verité Production is Time”: Dp Christopher Lamarca on Sugarcane first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “The Biggest Challenge on a Verité Production is Time”: Dp Christopher Lamarca on Sugarcane first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/20/2024
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The new Evil Dead film has possessed audiences. The Sam Raimi-produced film is scaring audiences in the best way possible. This time the action has moved from an isolated cabin in the middle of the forest to an apartment building in a heavily populated area. What kind of havoc will the evil Necronomicon unleash upon an unsuspecting public? With this being the fifth film in the Evil Dead franchise, that means that it is full of easter eggs and references to other films in the shared universe. What Evil Dead Rise easter eggs did we find?
WArning!!!!! There will be spoilers for Evil Dead Rise!
Henrietta’s Pizzeria
Early in the film, the younger characters are sent off to get some pizza while Beth and Ellie talk. When they return, we see that the pizza box is labeled as Henrietta’s Pizzeria. There is also a...
WArning!!!!! There will be spoilers for Evil Dead Rise!
Henrietta’s Pizzeria
Early in the film, the younger characters are sent off to get some pizza while Beth and Ellie talk. When they return, we see that the pizza box is labeled as Henrietta’s Pizzeria. There is also a...
- 8/9/2023
- by Bryan Wolford
- JoBlo.com
With all its visual inventiveness, brilliant juxtaposition of grotesque, gory scenes with dark humor, and a well-defined mythology of its own, the cult-classic horror franchise “Evil Dead,” created by Sam Raimi, has gone on to become a subgenre in itself. One of the selling points of the series is the lore of the horror elements, revolving around the ominous “Necronomicon Ex-Mortis,” aka “Book of the Dead,” and the sadistic, vicious monsters known as Deadites, both of which end up wreaking havoc in the lives (and deaths too) of the protagonists involved in each of the installments. The latest release of the franchise, “Evil Dead Rise,” continues the legacy of its horror by adhering to the lore and also by adding newer elements to the mythology, which we would like to discuss by explaining the lore in detail.
Before the meteoric success of the first movie of the franchise, “Evil Dead...
Before the meteoric success of the first movie of the franchise, “Evil Dead...
- 4/25/2023
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
This Evil Dead Rise article contains spoilers.
Evil Dead Rise, the fifth installment of the horror series, opened in second place in the domestic box office this past weekend, pulling in an impressive $23.5 million, and $40 million worldwide, which would suggest there’s more boom left in the franchise boomstick.
And though writer/director Lee Cronin says he “was never trying to bait for sequels,” he nonetheless sets up a few story ideas should he return to the world of deadites and Necronomicon created in 1981 by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, who starred as Ashley J. Williams.
In a recent episode of Den of Geek‘s paranormal pop culture show Talking Strange, Cronin — as well as stars Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan — spoke to host Aaron Sagers about the film’s ending and what happens immediately following that scene.
As you’ll recall, at the end of the movie,...
Evil Dead Rise, the fifth installment of the horror series, opened in second place in the domestic box office this past weekend, pulling in an impressive $23.5 million, and $40 million worldwide, which would suggest there’s more boom left in the franchise boomstick.
And though writer/director Lee Cronin says he “was never trying to bait for sequels,” he nonetheless sets up a few story ideas should he return to the world of deadites and Necronomicon created in 1981 by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, who starred as Ashley J. Williams.
In a recent episode of Den of Geek‘s paranormal pop culture show Talking Strange, Cronin — as well as stars Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan — spoke to host Aaron Sagers about the film’s ending and what happens immediately following that scene.
As you’ll recall, at the end of the movie,...
- 4/25/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Ten years ago, the characters in Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead were cleverly given first names that allowed the first letters of each of their names to spell out Demon – David, Eric, Mia, Olivia, Natalie – and Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise has similarly hidden some Easter Eggs within the characters’ names. Every character in the new movie is named after a past Evil Dead star!
Here’s the full main character roster, and the stars their names pay tribute to…
Actor/Character: Lily Sullivan – Beth
Named After: Embeth Davidtz, Army of Darkness
Actor/Character: Alyssa Sutherland – Ellie
Named After: Ellen Sandweiss, The Evil Dead (1981)
Actor/Character: Morgan Davies – Danny
Named After: Dan Hicks, Evil Dead II
Actor/Character: Gabrielle Echols – Bridget
Named After: Bridget Fonda, Army of Darkness
Actor/Character: Nell Fisher – Kassie
Named After: Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Evil Dead II
Even minor character names pay tribute to the past,...
Here’s the full main character roster, and the stars their names pay tribute to…
Actor/Character: Lily Sullivan – Beth
Named After: Embeth Davidtz, Army of Darkness
Actor/Character: Alyssa Sutherland – Ellie
Named After: Ellen Sandweiss, The Evil Dead (1981)
Actor/Character: Morgan Davies – Danny
Named After: Dan Hicks, Evil Dead II
Actor/Character: Gabrielle Echols – Bridget
Named After: Bridget Fonda, Army of Darkness
Actor/Character: Nell Fisher – Kassie
Named After: Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Evil Dead II
Even minor character names pay tribute to the past,...
- 4/24/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Contains spoilers for "Evil Dead Rise"
The "Evil Dead" franchise is amorphous. Sam Raimi's original "The Evil Dead" was a touchstone genre masterpiece, though its follow-up, "Evil Dead II," is still hotly debated. Is it a remake or a sequel? There are the bonkers yet sensational "Army of Darkness," a television series (gone too soon), and Fede Álvarez's slick 2013 remake. Now, there's Lee Cronin's "Evil Dead Rise," which shifts the action from the woods to a Loa Angeles apartment building. No two "Evil Dead" movies are alike. Each is a gruesome springboard for new filmmakers to try their hand at Deadite mayhem.
They are some of the greatest scary movies ever made and arguably the most consistent franchise in horror history. Unlike several other recent remakes (including David Gordon Green's "Halloween" trilogy or the two new "Scream" entries), "Evil Dead" isn't bound to a strict chronology.
The "Evil Dead" franchise is amorphous. Sam Raimi's original "The Evil Dead" was a touchstone genre masterpiece, though its follow-up, "Evil Dead II," is still hotly debated. Is it a remake or a sequel? There are the bonkers yet sensational "Army of Darkness," a television series (gone too soon), and Fede Álvarez's slick 2013 remake. Now, there's Lee Cronin's "Evil Dead Rise," which shifts the action from the woods to a Loa Angeles apartment building. No two "Evil Dead" movies are alike. Each is a gruesome springboard for new filmmakers to try their hand at Deadite mayhem.
They are some of the greatest scary movies ever made and arguably the most consistent franchise in horror history. Unlike several other recent remakes (including David Gordon Green's "Halloween" trilogy or the two new "Scream" entries), "Evil Dead" isn't bound to a strict chronology.
- 4/24/2023
- by Chad Collins
- Slash Film
The “Evil Dead” franchise returns 10 years after the re-imagined “Evil Dead” of 2013, which holds the record for the most amount of fake blood used in a horror film. While it doesn’t seem like the new film went down the same path, although it is still very bloody, “Evil Dead Rise” is a family drama under all the blood and gore about staying in touch, not lying to, and cherishing your family. Yes, it’s an interesting premise for demonic possession that can’t be exorcised or destroyed. The Necronomicon has found new life and a new appearance in the latest “Evil Dead.” Let’s understand the lead characters of the new horror film and the final girls’ journey forward.
Spoilers Ahead
Ellie, The Mother
Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) is the mother of three kids and recently separated from her husband. The three of them live in an apartment in LA.
Spoilers Ahead
Ellie, The Mother
Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) is the mother of three kids and recently separated from her husband. The three of them live in an apartment in LA.
- 4/24/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
If you’re a fan of the blood-soaked, horrifying, ruthless, gut-churning, every-second-of-the-way kind of films, then “Evil Dead Rise” should be your next theatrical watch. While there are quite a few issues with the film, including wardrobe choices and confusing accents, “Evil Dead Rise” is your latest horror film to just have pure fun with. To enjoy such a film with an engaged crowd is experience enough to recommend it. With the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis resurfacing due to an earthquake and the curiosity of a child, unspeakable evil is unleashed on an apartment building in LA this time around. Frankly, there isn’t much LA in this film, but either way, it’s a blast, and if we step aside from the fact that it is a part of the larger franchise and watch it as a stand-alone, it’s quite enjoyable but falls a little short in terms of a hooking plot.
- 4/23/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
“Evil Dead” is one of the horror franchises that successfully stood the test of time even after being reworked into newer, modern installments and managed to gain cult classic status while doing so. Created by director Sam Raimi, the franchise has been regarded highly for its adherence to some of its defining traits like campy fun, signature camera work involving double focus and rushing tracking sequences and sudden zoom-ins, absolute no-nonsense spine-tingling gorefests, cabin in the woods settings, and the nastiest-looking demonic spirits with a penchant for blood and torture, all of which it introduced in the first movie “Evil Dead” in 1981 that revolutionized the horror genre of movies. The fifth and the latest installment of the franchise, “Evil Dead Rise,” directed by Lee Cronin, changes one key aspect by replacing the secluded cabin in a wilderness setting with a now-genre-popular urban apartment backdrop. But that takes away none of the trademark brutal,...
- 4/22/2023
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
Lily Sullivan in ‘Evil Dead Rise’ (Photo © 2022 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc)
The bloodthirsty demons are back and this time they’re going after a family in a rundown high-rise in the 2023 entry of the campy Evil Dead horror film franchise, Evil Dead Rise.
Beth (Lily Sullivan), a roadie who’s just received some surprising news, heads home to visit her estranged sister, Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland), and Ellie’s children in Los Angeles. Upon arriving she discovers her sister packing up and getting ready to leave their apartment because the building’s been condemned.
Ellie sends her three kids – Danny (Morgan Davies), Bridget (Gabrielle Echols), and young Kassie (Nell Fisher) – out to get pizza, and just as they make it back to the parking garage, the city experiences a massive earthquake. The ground cracks and a large hole opens up in their building.
Teenager Danny goes exploring down in the hole,...
The bloodthirsty demons are back and this time they’re going after a family in a rundown high-rise in the 2023 entry of the campy Evil Dead horror film franchise, Evil Dead Rise.
Beth (Lily Sullivan), a roadie who’s just received some surprising news, heads home to visit her estranged sister, Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland), and Ellie’s children in Los Angeles. Upon arriving she discovers her sister packing up and getting ready to leave their apartment because the building’s been condemned.
Ellie sends her three kids – Danny (Morgan Davies), Bridget (Gabrielle Echols), and young Kassie (Nell Fisher) – out to get pizza, and just as they make it back to the parking garage, the city experiences a massive earthquake. The ground cracks and a large hole opens up in their building.
Teenager Danny goes exploring down in the hole,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Kevin Finnerty
- Showbiz Junkies
This article contains mild spoilers for "Evil Dead Rise.""Evil Dead Rise," the latest installment in the now 40-odd-year-old "Evil Dead" franchise, is filled to the brim with evidence of writer/director Lee Cronin's bonafides toward being a fan of the series. While the film isn't merely a work of fan service, the movie is suffused with references to the earlier "Evil Dead" films, from Deadites screaming "Dead by dawn!" to a very particular clock being seen at a cabin in the film's opening sequence.
Yet Cronin isn't content with paying homage to just the "Evil Dead" series — in addition to multiple references to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," "Evil Dead Rise" contains some latent homages to numerous other horror films, including Lamberto Bava's similar demons-loose-in-a-high-rise splatter opus, "Demons 2." Most surprisingly, however, "Evil Dead Rise" appears to have a good deal in common with another Sam Raimi film,...
Yet Cronin isn't content with paying homage to just the "Evil Dead" series — in addition to multiple references to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," "Evil Dead Rise" contains some latent homages to numerous other horror films, including Lamberto Bava's similar demons-loose-in-a-high-rise splatter opus, "Demons 2." Most surprisingly, however, "Evil Dead Rise" appears to have a good deal in common with another Sam Raimi film,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Plot: Beth and Ellie, two sisters who have grown apart, are brought back together on a fateful night when Beth stops by to visit her older sister and her kids; Danny, Bridget, and Kassie the youngest. Things take a turn when budding DJ Danny decides to play some very, very old records they’ve discovered and the mother of all evil is unleashed.
Review: The Evil Dead franchise has been a part of the horror genre for 42 years, even longer if you count the film Within The Woods. In that time the franchise has focused a lot on Bruce Campbell’s reluctantly heroic final guy Ash Williams. Even the remake, released ten years ago, managed to include Ash at the very end. But the times they are a changing and in Evil Dead Rise, Ash Williams is not a part of the story, even though Bruce Campbell is an executive...
Review: The Evil Dead franchise has been a part of the horror genre for 42 years, even longer if you count the film Within The Woods. In that time the franchise has focused a lot on Bruce Campbell’s reluctantly heroic final guy Ash Williams. Even the remake, released ten years ago, managed to include Ash at the very end. But the times they are a changing and in Evil Dead Rise, Ash Williams is not a part of the story, even though Bruce Campbell is an executive...
- 4/21/2023
- by Jessica Dwyer
- JoBlo.com
Bloody Disgusting’s Evil Dead Rise review is spoiler-free.
A lakeside cabin opening sequence in Evil Dead Rise, written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), operates as a declaration that the latest installment of this franchise will fit snugly within the world of Evil Dead while branching out into new terrain and ideas. That means a self-contained story that brings the gnarly gore and Deadite thrills, even when its lore isn’t quite as well defined as its visceral terror.
Touring guitar technician Beth (Lily Sullivan) takes one look at her pregnancy test while at work and decides to reunite with her estranged sister Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) for guidance. It’s been months since Ellie heard from Beth, and she has problems of her own to contend with. She’s now a single mother of three kids, Danny (Morgan Davies), Bridget (Gabrielle Echols), and young Kassie...
A lakeside cabin opening sequence in Evil Dead Rise, written and directed by Lee Cronin (The Hole in the Ground), operates as a declaration that the latest installment of this franchise will fit snugly within the world of Evil Dead while branching out into new terrain and ideas. That means a self-contained story that brings the gnarly gore and Deadite thrills, even when its lore isn’t quite as well defined as its visceral terror.
Touring guitar technician Beth (Lily Sullivan) takes one look at her pregnancy test while at work and decides to reunite with her estranged sister Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) for guidance. It’s been months since Ellie heard from Beth, and she has problems of her own to contend with. She’s now a single mother of three kids, Danny (Morgan Davies), Bridget (Gabrielle Echols), and young Kassie...
- 4/21/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
This post contains spoilers for "Evil Dead Rise."
It has been a full decade since an "Evil Dead" movie was on the big screen, but Lee Cronin has brought the Deadites back to life once again with "Evil Dead Rise," which brings the franchise to the big city for the first time ever. There's plenty to discuss and debate featured in the film, but we're here to talk a little bit about the ending. More specifically, that absolutely wild monster that appears to bring the whole thing to a close.
The film reaches its conclusion when Beth (Lily Sullivan) attempts to escape the high rise with Kassie (Nell Fisher) following the film's blood-soaked events. But before they can make their escape, a horrifying beast serving as an amalgam of the previously dispatched Deadites tries its best to prevent that from happening. It's one of the most unique and terrifying creations...
It has been a full decade since an "Evil Dead" movie was on the big screen, but Lee Cronin has brought the Deadites back to life once again with "Evil Dead Rise," which brings the franchise to the big city for the first time ever. There's plenty to discuss and debate featured in the film, but we're here to talk a little bit about the ending. More specifically, that absolutely wild monster that appears to bring the whole thing to a close.
The film reaches its conclusion when Beth (Lily Sullivan) attempts to escape the high rise with Kassie (Nell Fisher) following the film's blood-soaked events. But before they can make their escape, a horrifying beast serving as an amalgam of the previously dispatched Deadites tries its best to prevent that from happening. It's one of the most unique and terrifying creations...
- 4/21/2023
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
This article contains massive spoilers for "Evil Dead Rise."As much as we humans love to champion our capacity for free will, life is inevitably made up of events that occur without our intent, and beyond our control. We can all attempt to make a plan for how our lives will go, but in the end, living is as much reacting as it is acting.
These seismic events that change the course of one's life don't necessarily have to be traumatic. For those in the "Evil Dead" universe, however, trauma is an unfortunately perennial thing. The latest installment of the franchise, "Evil Dead Rise," sees writer/director Lee Cronin soft-reboot the series yet again after 2013's "Evil Dead" and the 2015-18 TV series "Ash vs Evil Dead." This too is par for the course: one could argue that, despite numerous bits of connective tissue, every "Evil Dead" film contains a little continuity rebooting.
These seismic events that change the course of one's life don't necessarily have to be traumatic. For those in the "Evil Dead" universe, however, trauma is an unfortunately perennial thing. The latest installment of the franchise, "Evil Dead Rise," sees writer/director Lee Cronin soft-reboot the series yet again after 2013's "Evil Dead" and the 2015-18 TV series "Ash vs Evil Dead." This too is par for the course: one could argue that, despite numerous bits of connective tissue, every "Evil Dead" film contains a little continuity rebooting.
- 4/20/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise is its own diabolical concoction, mindful of its cinematic legacy yet happy to override the rules in any way it sees fit. It’s the fifth instalment in the long-running horror franchise but not really a sequel. Nor is it a fully-fledged reboot of Sam Raimi’s electric 1981 original. Though Fede Álvarez took largely the same approach in his efficient and brutal “re-imagining” from 2013, Cronin’s is the more daring film. Álvarez still tied his story to a cabin in the woods, five oblivious young adults and a dark cellar concealing ageless malice. Cronin borrows only a few familiar cues from Raimi’s original – some familiar chanting, the same insidious sound design, the favoured chainsaw of Bruce Campbell’s final boy, Ash – while relocating events to downtown Los Angeles.
Tattoo artist Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) is close to finally moving out of the dilapidated bank...
Tattoo artist Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) is close to finally moving out of the dilapidated bank...
- 4/20/2023
- by Clarisse Loughrey
- The Independent - Film
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